Logging Amazon ECR actions with Amazon CloudTrail
Amazon ECR is integrated with Amazon CloudTrail, a service that provides a record of actions taken by a user, a role, or an Amazon service in Amazon ECR. CloudTrail captures the following Amazon ECR actions as events:
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All API calls, including calls from the Amazon ECR console
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All actions taken due to the encryption settings on your repositories
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All actions taken due to lifecycle policy rules, including both successful and unsuccessful actions
Important
Due to the size limitations of individual CloudTrail events, for lifecycle policy actions where 10 or more images are expired Amazon ECR sends multiple events to CloudTrail. Additionally, Amazon ECR includes a maximum of 100 tags per image.
When a trail is created, you can enable continuous delivery of CloudTrail events to an Amazon S3 bucket, including events for Amazon ECR. If you don't configure a trail, you can still view the most recent events in the CloudTrail console in Event history. Using this information, you can determine the request that was made to Amazon ECR, the originating IP address, who made the request, when it was made, and additional details.
For more information, see the Amazon CloudTrail User Guide.
Amazon ECR information in CloudTrail
CloudTrail is enabled on your Amazon account when you create the account. When activity occurs in Amazon ECR, that activity is recorded in a CloudTrail event along with other Amazon service events in Event history. You can view, search, and download recent events in your Amazon account. For more information, see Viewing Events with CloudTrail Event History.
For an ongoing record of events in your Amazon account, including events for Amazon ECR, create a trail. A trail enables CloudTrail to deliver log files to an Amazon S3 bucket. When you create a trail in the console, you can apply the trail to a single Region or to all Regions. The trail logs events in the Amazon partition and delivers the log files to the Amazon S3 bucket that you specify. Additionally, you can configure other Amazon services to analyze and act upon the event data collected in CloudTrail logs. For more information, see:
All Amazon ECR API actions are logged by CloudTrail and are documented in the Amazon Elastic Container Registry API Reference.
When you perform common tasks, sections are generated in the CloudTrail log files for each
API action that is part of that task. For example, when you create a repository,
GetAuthorizationToken, CreateRepository and
SetRepositoryPolicy sections are generated in the CloudTrail log files.
When you push an image to a repository, InitiateLayerUpload,
UploadLayerPart, CompleteLayerUpload, and
PutImage sections are generated. When you pull an image,
GetDownloadUrlForLayer and BatchGetImage sections are
generated. For examples of these common tasks, see CloudTrail log entry examples.
Every event or log entry contains information about who generated the request. The identity information helps you determine the following:
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Whether the request was made with root or user credentials
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Whether the request was made with temporary security credentials for a role or federated user
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Whether the request was made by another Amazon service
For more information, see the CloudTrail
userIdentity Element.
Understanding Amazon ECR log file entries
A trail is a configuration that enables delivery of events as log files to an Amazon S3 bucket that you specify. CloudTrail log files contain one or more log entries. An event represents a single request from any source and includes information about the requested action, the date and time of the action, request parameters, and other information. CloudTrail log files are not an ordered stack trace of the public API calls, so they do not appear in any specific order.
CloudTrail log entry examples
The following are CloudTrail log entry examples for a few common Amazon ECR tasks.
Note
These examples have been formatted for improved readability. In a CloudTrail log file, all entries and events are concatenated into a single line. In addition, this example has been limited to a single Amazon ECR entry. In a real CloudTrail log file, you see entries and events from multiple Amazon services.
Topics
Example: Create repository action
The following example shows a CloudTrail log entry that demonstrates the
CreateRepository action.
{
"eventVersion": "1.04",
"userIdentity": {
"type": "AssumedRole",
"principalId": "AIDACKCEVSQ6C2EXAMPLE:account_name",
"arn": "arn:aws:sts::123456789012:user/Mary_Major",
"accountId": "123456789012",
"accessKeyId": "AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE",
"sessionContext": {
"attributes": {
"mfaAuthenticated": "false",
"creationDate": "2018-07-11T21:54:07Z"
},
"sessionIssuer": {
"type": "Role",
"principalId": "AIDACKCEVSQ6C2EXAMPLE",
"arn": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/Admin",
"accountId": "123456789012",
"userName": "Admin"
}
}
},
"eventTime": "2018-07-11T22:17:43Z",
"eventSource": "ecr.amazonaws.com",
"eventName": "CreateRepository",
"awsRegion": "us-east-2",
"sourceIPAddress": "203.0.113.12",
"userAgent": "console.amazonaws.com",
"requestParameters": {
"repositoryName": "testrepo"
},
"responseElements": {
"repository": {
"repositoryArn": "arn:aws:ecr:us-east-2:123456789012:repository/testrepo",
"repositoryName": "testrepo",
"repositoryUri": "123456789012.dkr.ecr.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/testrepo",
"createdAt": "Jul 11, 2018 10:17:44 PM",
"registryId": "123456789012"
}
},
"requestID": "cb8c167e-EXAMPLE",
"eventID": "e3c6f4ce-EXAMPLE",
"resources": [
{
"ARN": "arn:aws:ecr:us-east-2:123456789012:repository/testrepo",
"accountId": "123456789012"
}
],
"eventType": "AwsApiCall",
"recipientAccountId": "123456789012"
}Example: Amazon KMS CreateGrant API action when creating an Amazon ECR repository
The following example shows a CloudTrail log entry that demonstrates the Amazon KMS CreateGrant action when creating an Amazon ECR repository with KMS encryption enabled. For each repository that is created with KMS encryption is enabled, you should see two CreateGrant log entries in CloudTrail.
{ "eventVersion": "1.05", "userIdentity": { "type": "IAMUser", "principalId": "AIDAIEP6W46J43IG7LXAQ", "arn": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:user/Mary_Major", "accountId": "123456789012", "accessKeyId": "AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE", "userName": "Mary_Major", "sessionContext": { "sessionIssuer": { }, "webIdFederationData": { }, "attributes": { "mfaAuthenticated": "false", "creationDate": "2020-06-10T19:22:10Z" } }, "invokedBy": "AWS Internal" }, "eventTime": "2020-06-10T19:22:10Z", "eventSource": "kms.amazonaws.com", "eventName": "CreateGrant", "awsRegion": "us-west-2", "sourceIPAddress": "203.0.113.12", "userAgent": "console.amazonaws.com", "requestParameters": { "keyId": "4b55e5bf-39c8-41ad-b589-18464af7758a", "granteePrincipal": "ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com", "operations": [ "GenerateDataKey", "Decrypt" ], "retiringPrincipal": "ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com", "constraints": { "encryptionContextSubset": { "aws:ecr:arn": "arn:aws:ecr:us-west-2:123456789012:repository/testrepo" } } }, "responseElements": { "grantId": "3636af9adfee1accb67b83941087dcd45e7fadc4e74ff0103bb338422b5055f3" }, "requestID": "047b7dea-b56b-4013-87e9-a089f0f6602b", "eventID": "af4c9573-c56a-4886-baca-a77526544469", "readOnly": false, "resources": [ { "accountId": "123456789012", "type": "AWS::KMS::Key", "ARN": "arn:aws:kms:us-west-2:123456789012:key/4b55e5bf-39c8-41ad-b589-18464af7758a" } ], "eventType": "AwsApiCall", "recipientAccountId": "123456789012" }
Example: Image push action
The following example shows a CloudTrail log entry that demonstrates an image
push which uses the PutImage action.
Note
When pushing an image, you will also see
InitiateLayerUpload, UploadLayerPart, and
CompleteLayerUpload references in the CloudTrail logs.
{
"eventVersion": "1.04",
"userIdentity": {
"type": "IAMUser",
"principalId": "AIDACKCEVSQ6C2EXAMPLE:account_name",
"arn": "arn:aws:sts::123456789012:user/Mary_Major",
"accountId": "123456789012",
"accessKeyId": "AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE",
"userName": "Mary_Major",
"sessionContext": {
"attributes": {
"mfaAuthenticated": "false",
"creationDate": "2019-04-15T16:42:14Z"
}
}
},
"eventTime": "2019-04-15T16:45:00Z",
"eventSource": "ecr.amazonaws.com",
"eventName": "PutImage",
"awsRegion": "us-east-2",
"sourceIPAddress": "203.0.113.12",
"userAgent": "console.amazonaws.com",
"requestParameters": {
"repositoryName": "testrepo",
"imageTag": "latest",
"registryId": "123456789012",
"imageManifest": "{\n \"schemaVersion\": 2,\n \"mediaType\": \"application/vnd.docker.distribution.manifest.v2+json\",\n \"config\": {\n \"mediaType\": \"application/vnd.docker.container.image.v1+json\",\n \"size\": 5543,\n \"digest\": \"sha256:000b9b805af1cdb60628898c9f411996301a1c13afd3dbef1d8a16ac6dbf503a\"\n },\n \"layers\": [\n {\n \"mediaType\": \"application/vnd.docker.image.rootfs.diff.tar.gzip\",\n \"size\": 43252507,\n \"digest\": \"sha256:3b37166ec61459e76e33282dda08f2a9cd698ca7e3d6bc44e6a6e7580cdeff8e\"\n },\n {\n \"mediaType\": \"application/vnd.docker.image.rootfs.diff.tar.gzip\",\n \"size\": 846,\n \"digest\": \"sha256:504facff238fde83f1ca8f9f54520b4219c5b8f80be9616ddc52d31448a044bd\"\n },\n {\n \"mediaType\": \"application/vnd.docker.image.rootfs.diff.tar.gzip\",\n \"size\": 615,\n \"digest\": \"sha256:ebbcacd28e101968415b0c812b2d2dc60f969e36b0b08c073bf796e12b1bb449\"\n },\n {\n \"mediaType\": \"application/vnd.docker.image.rootfs.diff.tar.gzip\",\n \"size\": 850,\n \"digest\": \"sha256:c7fb3351ecad291a88b92b600037e2435c84a347683d540042086fe72c902b8a\"\n },\n {\n \"mediaType\": \"application/vnd.docker.image.rootfs.diff.tar.gzip\",\n \"size\": 168,\n \"digest\": \"sha256:2e3debadcbf7e542e2aefbce1b64a358b1931fb403b3e4aeca27cb4d809d56c2\"\n },\n {\n \"mediaType\": \"application/vnd.docker.image.rootfs.diff.tar.gzip\",\n \"size\": 37720774,\n \"digest\": \"sha256:f8c9f51ad524d8ae9bf4db69cd3e720ba92373ec265f5c390ffb21bb0c277941\"\n },\n {\n \"mediaType\": \"application/vnd.docker.image.rootfs.diff.tar.gzip\",\n \"size\": 30432107,\n \"digest\": \"sha256:813a50b13f61cf1f8d25f19fa96ad3aa5b552896c83e86ce413b48b091d7f01b\"\n },\n {\n \"mediaType\": \"application/vnd.docker.image.rootfs.diff.tar.gzip\",\n \"size\": 197,\n \"digest\": \"sha256:7ab043301a6187ea3293d80b30ba06c7bf1a0c3cd4c43d10353b31bc0cecfe7d\"\n },\n {\n \"mediaType\": \"application/vnd.docker.image.rootfs.diff.tar.gzip\",\n \"size\": 154,\n \"digest\": \"sha256:67012cca8f31dc3b8ee2305e7762fee20c250513effdedb38a1c37784a5a2e71\"\n },\n {\n \"mediaType\": \"application/vnd.docker.image.rootfs.diff.tar.gzip\",\n \"size\": 176,\n \"digest\": \"sha256:3bc892145603fffc9b1c97c94e2985b4cb19ca508750b15845a5d97becbd1a0e\"\n },\n {\n \"mediaType\": \"application/vnd.docker.image.rootfs.diff.tar.gzip\",\n \"size\": 183,\n \"digest\": \"sha256:6f1c79518f18251d35977e7e46bfa6c6b9cf50df2a79d4194941d95c54258d18\"\n },\n {\n \"mediaType\": \"application/vnd.docker.image.rootfs.diff.tar.gzip\",\n \"size\": 212,\n \"digest\": \"sha256:b7bcfbc2e2888afebede4dd1cd5eebf029bb6315feeaf0b56e425e11a50afe42\"\n },\n {\n \"mediaType\": \"application/vnd.docker.image.rootfs.diff.tar.gzip\",\n \"size\": 212,\n \"digest\": \"sha256:2b220f8b0f32b7c2ed8eaafe1c802633bbd94849b9ab73926f0ba46cdae91629\"\n }\n ]\n}"
},
"responseElements": {
"image": {
"repositoryName": "testrepo",
"imageManifest": "{\n \"schemaVersion\": 2,\n \"mediaType\": \"application/vnd.docker.distribution.manifest.v2+json\",\n \"config\": {\n \"mediaType\": \"application/vnd.docker.container.image.v1+json\",\n \"size\": 5543,\n \"digest\": \"sha256:000b9b805af1cdb60628898c9f411996301a1c13afd3dbef1d8a16ac6dbf503a\"\n },\n \"layers\": [\n {\n \"mediaType\": \"application/vnd.docker.image.rootfs.diff.tar.gzip\",\n \"size\": 43252507,\n \"digest\": \"sha256:3b37166ec61459e76e33282dda08f2a9cd698ca7e3d6bc44e6a6e7580cdeff8e\"\n },\n {\n \"mediaType\": \"application/vnd.docker.image.rootfs.diff.tar.gzip\",\n \"size\": 846,\n \"digest\": \"sha256:504facff238fde83f1ca8f9f54520b4219c5b8f80be9616ddc52d31448a044bd\"\n },\n {\n \"mediaType\": \"application/vnd.docker.image.rootfs.diff.tar.gzip\",\n \"size\": 615,\n \"digest\": \"sha256:ebbcacd28e101968415b0c812b2d2dc60f969e36b0b08c073bf796e12b1bb449\"\n },\n {\n \"mediaType\": \"application/vnd.docker.image.rootfs.diff.tar.gzip\",\n \"size\": 850,\n \"digest\": \"sha256:c7fb3351ecad291a88b92b600037e2435c84a347683d540042086fe72c902b8a\"\n },\n {\n \"mediaType\": \"application/vnd.docker.image.rootfs.diff.tar.gzip\",\n \"size\": 168,\n \"digest\": \"sha256:2e3debadcbf7e542e2aefbce1b64a358b1931fb403b3e4aeca27cb4d809d56c2\"\n },\n {\n \"mediaType\": \"application/vnd.docker.image.rootfs.diff.tar.gzip\",\n \"size\": 37720774,\n \"digest\": \"sha256:f8c9f51ad524d8ae9bf4db69cd3e720ba92373ec265f5c390ffb21bb0c277941\"\n },\n {\n \"mediaType\": \"application/vnd.docker.image.rootfs.diff.tar.gzip\",\n \"size\": 30432107,\n \"digest\": \"sha256:813a50b13f61cf1f8d25f19fa96ad3aa5b552896c83e86ce413b48b091d7f01b\"\n },\n {\n \"mediaType\": \"application/vnd.docker.image.rootfs.diff.tar.gzip\",\n \"size\": 197,\n \"digest\": \"sha256:7ab043301a6187ea3293d80b30ba06c7bf1a0c3cd4c43d10353b31bc0cecfe7d\"\n },\n {\n \"mediaType\": \"application/vnd.docker.image.rootfs.diff.tar.gzip\",\n \"size\": 154,\n \"digest\": \"sha256:67012cca8f31dc3b8ee2305e7762fee20c250513effdedb38a1c37784a5a2e71\"\n },\n {\n \"mediaType\": \"application/vnd.docker.image.rootfs.diff.tar.gzip\",\n \"size\": 176,\n \"digest\": \"sha256:3bc892145603fffc9b1c97c94e2985b4cb19ca508750b15845a5d97becbd1a0e\"\n },\n {\n \"mediaType\": \"application/vnd.docker.image.rootfs.diff.tar.gzip\",\n \"size\": 183,\n \"digest\": \"sha256:6f1c79518f18251d35977e7e46bfa6c6b9cf50df2a79d4194941d95c54258d18\"\n },\n {\n \"mediaType\": \"application/vnd.docker.image.rootfs.diff.tar.gzip\",\n \"size\": 212,\n \"digest\": \"sha256:b7bcfbc2e2888afebede4dd1cd5eebf029bb6315feeaf0b56e425e11a50afe42\"\n },\n {\n \"mediaType\": \"application/vnd.docker.image.rootfs.diff.tar.gzip\",\n \"size\": 212,\n \"digest\": \"sha256:2b220f8b0f32b7c2ed8eaafe1c802633bbd94849b9ab73926f0ba46cdae91629\"\n }\n ]\n}",
"registryId": "123456789012",
"imageId": {
"imageDigest": "sha256:98c8b060c21d9adbb6b8c41b916e95e6307102786973ab93a41e8b86d1fc6d3e",
"imageTag": "latest"
}
}
},
"requestID": "cf044b7d-5f9d-11e9-9b2a-95983139cc57",
"eventID": "2bfd4ee2-2178-4a82-a27d-b12939923f0f",
"resources": [{
"ARN": "arn:aws:ecr:us-east-2:123456789012:repository/testrepo",
"accountId": "123456789012"
}],
"eventType": "AwsApiCall",
"recipientAccountId": "123456789012"
}Example: Image pull action
The following example shows a CloudTrail log entry that demonstrates an image
pull which uses the BatchGetImage action.
Note
When pulling an image, if you don't already have the image locally,
you will also see GetDownloadUrlForLayer references in the
CloudTrail logs.
{
"eventVersion": "1.04",
"userIdentity": {
"type": "IAMUser",
"principalId": "AIDACKCEVSQ6C2EXAMPLE:account_name",
"arn": "arn:aws:sts::123456789012:user/Mary_Major",
"accountId": "123456789012",
"accessKeyId": "AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE",
"userName": "Mary_Major",
"sessionContext": {
"attributes": {
"mfaAuthenticated": "false",
"creationDate": "2019-04-15T16:42:14Z"
}
}
},
"eventTime": "2019-04-15T17:23:20Z",
"eventSource": "ecr.amazonaws.com",
"eventName": "BatchGetImage",
"awsRegion": "us-east-2",
"sourceIPAddress": "203.0.113.12",
"userAgent": "console.amazonaws.com",
"requestParameters": {
"imageIds": [{
"imageTag": "latest"
}],
"acceptedMediaTypes": [
"application/json",
"application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json",
"application/vnd.oci.image.index.v1+json",
"application/vnd.docker.distribution.manifest.v2+json",
"application/vnd.docker.distribution.manifest.list.v2+json",
"application/vnd.docker.distribution.manifest.v1+prettyjws"
],
"repositoryName": "testrepo",
"registryId": "123456789012"
},
"responseElements": null,
"requestID": "2a1b97ee-5fa3-11e9-a8cd-cd2391aeda93",
"eventID": "c84f5880-c2f9-4585-9757-28fa5c1065df",
"resources": [{
"ARN": "arn:aws:ecr:us-east-2:123456789012:repository/testrepo",
"accountId": "123456789012"
}],
"eventType": "AwsApiCall",
"recipientAccountId": "123456789012"
}Example: Image lifecycle policy action
The following example shows a CloudTrail log entry that demonstrates when an
image is expired due to a lifecycle policy rule. This event type can be
located by filtering for PolicyExecutionEvent for the event
name field.
Important
Due to the size limitations of individual CloudTrail events, for lifecycle policy actions where 10 or more images are expired Amazon ECR sends multiple events to CloudTrail. Additionally, Amazon ECR includes a maximum of 100 tags per image.
{
"eventVersion": "1.05",
"userIdentity": {
"accountId": "123456789012",
"invokedBy": "AWS Internal"
},
"eventTime": "2020-03-12T20:22:12Z",
"eventSource": "ecr.amazonaws.com",
"eventName": "PolicyExecutionEvent",
"awsRegion": "us-west-2",
"sourceIPAddress": "AWS Internal",
"userAgent": "AWS Internal",
"requestParameters": null,
"responseElements": null,
"eventID": "9354dd7f-9aac-4e9d-956d-12561a4923aa",
"readOnly": true,
"resources": [
{
"ARN": "arn:aws:ecr:us-west-2:123456789012:repository/testrepo",
"accountId": "123456789012",
"type": "AWS::ECR::Repository"
}
],
"eventType": "AwsServiceEvent",
"recipientAccountId": "123456789012",
"serviceEventDetails": {
"repositoryName": "testrepo",
"lifecycleEventPolicy": {
"lifecycleEventRules": [
{
"rulePriority": 1,
"description": "remove all images > 2",
"lifecycleEventSelection": {
"tagStatus": "Any",
"tagPrefixList": [],
"countType": "Image count more than",
"countNumber": 2
},
"action": "expire"
}
],
"lastEvaluatedAt": 0,
"policyVersion": 1,
"policyId": "ceb86829-58e7-9498-920c-aa042e33037b"
},
"lifecycleEventImageActions": [
{
"lifecycleEventImage": {
"digest": "sha256:ddba4d27a7ffc3f86dd6c2f92041af252a1f23a8e742c90e6e1297bfa1bc0c45",
"tagStatus": "Tagged",
"tagList": [
"alpine"
],
"pushedAt": 1584042813000
},
"rulePriority": 1
},
{
"lifecycleEventImage": {
"digest": "sha256:6ab380c5a5acf71c1b6660d645d2cd79cc8ce91b38e0352cbf9561e050427baf",
"tagStatus": "Tagged",
"tagList": [
"centos"
],
"pushedAt": 1584042842000
},
"rulePriority": 1
}
]
}
}