Services or capabilities described in Amazon Web Services documentation might vary by Region. To see the differences applicable to the China Regions, see Getting Started with Amazon Web Services in China (PDF).

Logging operations with Amazon CloudTrail

Amazon QuickSight is integrated with Amazon CloudTrail. This service provides a record of actions taken by a user, role, or an Amazon service in Amazon QuickSight. CloudTrail captures all API calls for Amazon QuickSight as events. The calls captured include some calls from the Amazon QuickSight console and all code calls to Amazon QuickSight API operations. If you create a trail, you can enable continuous delivery of CloudTrail events to an Amazon S3 bucket, including events for Amazon QuickSight. 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 QuickSight, the IP address from which the request was made, who made the request, when it was made, and additional details.

By default, the log files delivered by CloudTrail to your bucket are encrypted by Amazon server-side encryption with Amazon S3-managed encryption keys (SSE-S3). To provide a security layer that is directly manageable, you can instead use server-side encryption with Amazon KMS–managed keys (SSE-KMS) for your CloudTrail log files. Enabling server-side encryption encrypts the log files but not the digest files with SSE-KMS. Digest files are encrypted with Amazon S3-managed encryption keys (SSE-S3).

To learn more about CloudTrail, including how to configure and enable it, see the Amazon CloudTrail User Guide.

Amazon QuickSight Information in CloudTrail

CloudTrail is enabled on your Amazon account when you create the account. When supported event activity occurs in Amazon QuickSight, 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 QuickSight, 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 Web Services 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 the following:

Amazon QuickSight supports logging the following actions as events in CloudTrail log files:

For more information on user identity, see the CloudTrail userIdentity Element.

By default, each Amazon QuickSight log entry contains the following information:

Example: Amazon QuickSight 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 so on. CloudTrail log files aren't an ordered stack trace of the public API calls, so they don't appear in any specific order.

The following example shows a CloudTrail log entry that demonstrates the BatchCreateUser action.

{ 
   "eventVersion":"1.05",
   "userIdentity":
	{ 
	   "type":"Root",
	   "principalId":"123456789012",
	   "arn":"arn:aws-cn:iam::123456789012:root",
	   "accountId":"123456789012",
	   "userName":"test-username"
	},
	   "eventTime":"2017-04-19T03:16:13Z",
	   "eventSource":"quicksight.amazonaws.com",
	   "eventName":"BatchCreateUser",
	   "awsRegion":"us-west-2",
	   "requestParameters":null,
	   "responseElements":null,
	   "eventID":"e7d2382e-70a0-3fb7-9d41-a7a913422240",
	   "readOnly":false,
	   "eventType":"AwsServiceEvent",
	   "recipientAccountId":"123456789012",
	   "serviceEventDetails":
	   { 
		   "eventRequestDetails":
		   { 
				"users":
				{ 
					"test-user-11":
					{ 
						"role":"USER"
					},
					"test-user-22":
					{ 
						"role":"ADMIN"
					}
				}
			},
			"eventResponseDetails":
			{ 
			"validUsers":[ 
				],
			"InvalidUsers":[ 
				"test-user-11",
				"test-user-22"
				]
			}
	   }
   }