Neptune Information in CloudTrail - Amazon Neptune
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Neptune Information in CloudTrail

CloudTrail is enabled on your Amazon account when you create the account. When activity occurs in Amazon Neptune, 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 Neptune, 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 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 upon the event data collected in CloudTrail logs. For more information, see:

If an action is taken on behalf of your Amazon account using the Neptune console, the Neptune command line interface, or the Neptune SDK APIs, Amazon CloudTrail logs the action as calls made to the Amazon RDS API. For example, if you use the Neptune console to modify a DB instance or call the Amazon CLI modify-db-instance command, the Amazon CloudTrail log shows a call to the Amazon RDS API ModifyDBInstance action. For a list of the Neptune API actions that are logged by Amazon CloudTrail, see the Neptune API Reference.

Note

Amazon CloudTrail only logs events for Neptune Management API calls, such as creating an instance or cluster. If you want to audit changes to your graph, you can use audit logs. For more information, see Using Audit Logs with Amazon Neptune Clusters.

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.