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Amazon CodeBuild information in CloudTrailUnderstanding Amazon CodeBuild log file entries
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Logging Amazon CodeBuild API calls with Amazon CloudTrail

Amazon CodeBuild is integrated with Amazon CloudTrail, a service that provides a record of actions taken by a user, role, or an Amazon service in CodeBuild. CloudTrail captures all API calls for CodeBuild as events, including calls from the CodeBuild console and from code calls to the CodeBuild APIs. If you create a trail, you can enable continuous delivery of CloudTrail events to an S3 bucket, including events for CodeBuild. If you don't configure a trail, you can still view the most recent events in the CloudTrail console in Event history. Using the information collected by CloudTrail, you can determine the request that was made to CodeBuild, the IP address from which the request was made, who made the request, when it was made, and additional details.

To learn more about CloudTrail, see the Amazon CloudTrail User Guide.

Amazon CodeBuild information in CloudTrail

CloudTrail is enabled on your Amazon account when you create the account. When activity occurs in CodeBuild, 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 in the Amazon CloudTrail User Guide.

For an ongoing record of events in your Amazon account, including events for CodeBuild, create a trail. A trail enables CloudTrail to deliver log files to an S3 bucket. By default, when you create a trail in the console, the trail applies to all regions. The trail logs events from all regions in the Amazon partition and delivers the log files to the S3 bucket that you specify. You can configure other Amazon services to further analyze and act upon the event data collected in CloudTrail logs. For more information, see:

All CodeBuild actions are logged by CloudTrail and are documented in the CodeBuild API Reference. For example, calls to the CreateProject (in the Amazon CLI, create-project), StartBuild (in the Amazon CLI, start-project), and UpdateProject (in the Amazon CLI, update-project) actions generate entries in the CloudTrail log files.

Every event or log entry contains information about who generated the request. The identity information helps you determine the following:

  • Whether the request was made with root or user credentials.

  • Whether the request was made with temporary security credentials for a role or federated user.

  • Whether the request was made by another Amazon service.

For more information, see the CloudTrail userIdentity elementin the Amazon CloudTrail User Guide.

Understanding Amazon CodeBuild log file entries

A trail is a configuration that enables delivery of events as log files to an 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 so on. CloudTrail log files are not an ordered stack trace of the public API calls, so they do not appear in any specific order.

Note

To protect sensitive information, the following are hidden in CodeBuild logs:

The following example shows a CloudTrail log entry that demonstrates creating a build project in CodeBuild.

{    
  "eventVersion": "1.05",   
  "userIdentity": {       
    "type": "FederatedUser",       
    "principalId": "account-ID:user-name",       
    "arn": "arn:aws:sts::account-ID:federated-user/user-name",       
    "accountId": "account-ID",       
    "accessKeyId": "access-key-ID",       
    "sessionContext": {
      "attributes": {
        "mfaAuthenticated": "false",
        "creationDate": "2016-09-06T17:59:10Z"
      },
      "sessionIssuer": {
        "type": "IAMUser",
        "principalId": "access-key-ID",
        "arn": "arn:aws:iam::account-ID:user/user-name",
        "accountId": "account-ID",
        "userName": "user-name"
      }       
    }   
  },   
  "eventTime": "2016-09-06T17:59:11Z",   
  "eventSource": "codebuild.amazonaws.com",   
  "eventName": "CreateProject",   
  "awsRegion": "region-ID",   
  "sourceIPAddress": "127.0.0.1",   
  "userAgent": "user-agent",   
  "requestParameters": {       
    "awsActId": "account-ID"   
  },   
  "responseElements": {       
    "project": {
      "environment": {
        "image": "image-ID",
        "computeType": "BUILD_GENERAL1_SMALL",
        "type": "LINUX_CONTAINER",
        "environmentVariables": []
      },
      "name": "codebuild-demo-project",
      "description": "This is my demo project",
      "arn": "arn:aws:codebuild:region-ID:account-ID:project/codebuild-demo-project:project-ID",
      "encryptionKey": "arn:aws:kms:region-ID:key-ID",
      "timeoutInMinutes": 10,
      "artifacts": {
        "location": "arn:aws:s3:::codebuild-region-ID-account-ID-output-bucket",
        "type": "S3",
        "packaging": "ZIP",
        "outputName": "MyOutputArtifact.zip"
      }, 
      "serviceRole": "arn:aws:iam::account-ID:role/CodeBuildServiceRole",
      "lastModified": "Sep 6, 2016 10:59:11 AM",
      "source": {      
        "type": "GITHUB",
        "location": "https://github.com/my-repo.git"
      },
      "created": "Sep 6, 2016 10:59:11 AM"       
    }   
  },   
  "requestID": "9d32b228-745b-11e6-98bb-23b67EXAMPLE",   
  "eventID": "581f7dd1-8d2e-40b0-aeee-0dbf7EXAMPLE",   
  "eventType": "AwsApiCall",   
  "recipientAccountId": "account-ID" 
}