Monitoring Amazon Transcribe with Amazon CloudTrail - Amazon Transcribe
Amazon Transcribe and CloudTrail
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Monitoring Amazon Transcribe with Amazon CloudTrail

Amazon Transcribe is integrated with Amazon CloudTrail, a service that provides a record of actions taken in Amazon Transcribe by an Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) user or role, or by an Amazon service. CloudTrail captures all API calls for Amazon Transcribe. That includes calls from the Amazon Web Services Management Console and code calls to the Amazon Transcribe APIs, as events. By creating a trail, you can enable continuous delivery of CloudTrail events, including events for Amazon Transcribe, to an Amazon S3 bucket. If you don't create a trail, you can still view the most recent events in the CloudTrail Amazon Web Services Management Console in Event history. Using the information collected by CloudTrail, you can see each request that is made to Amazon Transcribe, the IP address from which the request is made, who made the request, when it is made, and additional details.

To learn more about CloudTrail, refer to the Amazon CloudTrail User Guide.

Amazon Transcribe and CloudTrail

CloudTrail is enabled on your Amazon Web Services account when you create the account. When activity occurs in Amazon Transcribe, that activity is recorded in a CloudTrail event along with other Amazon Web Services service events in the CloudTrail Event history. You can view, search, and download recent events in your Amazon Web Services account. For more information, see Viewing Events with CloudTrail Event History.

To get an ongoing record of events in your Amazon Web Services account, including events for Amazon Transcribe, create a trail. A trail is a configuration that enables CloudTrail to deliver events as log files to a specified Amazon S3 bucket. CloudTrail log files contain one or more log entries. An event represents a single request from any source. It 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.

By default, when you create a trail in the Amazon Web Services Management Console, the trail applies to all Amazon Web Services Regions. The trail logs events from all Amazon Web Services Regions in the Amazon partition and delivers the log files to the Amazon S3 bucket that you specify. Additionally, you can configure other Amazon Web Services services to further analyze and act upon the event data collected in CloudTrail logs. For more information, see:

CloudTrail logs all Amazon Transcribe actions, which are documented in the API Reference. For example, the CreateVocabulary, GetTranscriptionJob, and StartTranscriptionJob operations generate entries in the CloudTrail log files.

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

  • Whether the request is made with root or IAM user credentials

  • Whether the request is made with temporary security credentials for an IAM role or federated user

  • Whether the request is made by another Amazon Web Services service

For more information, see the CloudTrail userIdentity Element.

You can also aggregate Amazon Transcribe log files from multiple Amazon Web Services Regions and multiple Amazon Web Services accounts into a single Amazon S3 bucket. For more information, see Receiving CloudTrail Log Files from Multiple Regions and Receiving CloudTrail Log Files from Multiple Accounts.

Example: Amazon Transcribe log file entries

A trail is a configuration that enables delivery of events as log files to a specified Amazon S3 bucket. CloudTrail log files contain one or more log entries. An event represents a single request from any source. It includes such information about the requested action as the date and time of the action, and request parameters. CloudTrail log files aren't an ordered stack trace of the public API calls, so they don't appear in any specific order.

Calls to the StartTranscriptionJob and GetTranscriptionJob API operations create the following entry.

{
    "Records": [
        {
            "eventVersion": "1.05",
            "userIdentity": {
                "type": "IAMUser",
                "principalId": "111122223333",
                "arn": "arn:aws:iam:us-west-2:111122223333:user/my-user-name",
                "accountId": "111122223333",
                "accessKeyId": "AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE",
                "userName": "my-user-name"
            },
            "eventTime": "2022-03-07T15:03:45Z",
            "eventSource": "transcribe.amazonaws.com",
            "eventName": "StartTranscriptionJob",
            "awsRegion": "us-west-2",
            "sourceIPAddress": "127.0.0.1",
            "userAgent": "[]",
            "requestParameters": {
                "mediaFormat": "flac",
                "languageCode": "en-US",
                "transcriptionJobName": "my-first-transcription-job",
                "media": {
                    "mediaFileUri": "s3://DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET/my-media-file.flac"
                }
            },
            "responseElements": {
                "transcriptionJob": {
                    "transcriptionJobStatus": "IN_PROGRESS",
                    "mediaFormat": "flac",
                    "creationTime": "2022-03-07T15:03:44.229000-08:00",
                    "transcriptionJobName": "my-first-transcription-job",
                    "languageCode": "en-US",
                    "media": {
                        "mediaFileUri": "s3://DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET/my-media-file.flac"
                    }
                }
            },
            "requestID": "47B8E8D397DCE7A6",
            "eventID": "cdc4b7ed-e171-4cef-975a-ad829d4123e8",
            "eventType": "AwsApiCall",
            "recipientAccountId": "111122223333"
        },
        {
            "eventVersion": "1.05",
            "userIdentity": {
                "type": "IAMUser",
                "principalId": "111122223333",
                "arn": "arn:aws:iam:us-west-2:111122223333:user/my-user-name",
                "accountId": "111122223333",
                "accessKeyId": "AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE",
                "userName": "my-user-name"
            },
            "eventTime": "2022-03-07T15:07:11Z",
            "eventSource": "transcribe.amazonaws.com",
            "eventName": "GetTranscriptionJob",
            "awsRegion": "us-west-2",
            "sourceIPAddress": "127.0.0.1",
            "userAgent": "[]",
            "requestParameters": {
                "transcriptionJobName": "my-first-transcription-job"
            },
            "responseElements": {
                "transcriptionJob": {
                    "settings": {
                        
                    },
                    "transcriptionJobStatus": "COMPLETED",
                    "mediaFormat": "flac",
                    "creationTime": "2022-03-07T15:03:44.229000-08:00",
                    "transcriptionJobName": "my-first-transcription-job",
                    "languageCode": "en-US",
                    "media": {
                        "mediaFileUri": "s3://DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET/my-media-file.flac"
                    },
                    "transcript": {
                        "transcriptFileUri": "s3://DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET/my-first-transcription-job.json"
                    }
                }
            },
            "requestID": "BD8798EACDD16751",
            "eventID": "607b9532-1423-41c7-b048-ec2641693c47",
            "eventType": "AwsApiCall",
            "recipientAccountId": "111122223333"
        }        
    ]
}