Logging Amazon IoT Events API calls with Amazon CloudTrail - Amazon IoT Events
Amazon IoT Events information in CloudTrail
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Logging Amazon IoT Events API calls with Amazon CloudTrail

Amazon IoT Events is integrated with Amazon CloudTrail, a service that provides a record of actions taken by a user, role, or an Amazon service in Amazon IoT Events. CloudTrail captures all API calls for Amazon IoT Events as events, including calls from the Amazon IoT Events console and from code calls to the Amazon IoT Events APIs.

If you create a trail, you can enable continuous delivery of CloudTrail events to an Amazon S3 bucket, including events for Amazon IoT Events. 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 Amazon IoT Events, 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 IoT Events information in CloudTrail

CloudTrail is enabled on your Amazon account when you create the account. When activity occurs in Amazon IoT Events, that activity is recorded in a CloudTrail event 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 IoT Events, create a trail. A trail enables CloudTrail to deliver log files to an Amazon S3 bucket. By default, when you create a trail in the console, the trail applies to all Amazon Regions. The trail logs events from all Regions 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 further analyze and act on the event data collected in CloudTrail logs. For more information, see:

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 IAM 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 element. Amazon IoT Events actions are documented in the Amazon IoT Events API reference.