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Real-time monitoring of API calls can be achieved by directing CloudTrail Logs to CloudWatch Logs and establishing corresponding metric filters and alarms. It is possible to have more than 1 VPC within an account, in addition it is also possible to create a peer connection between 2 VPCs enabling network traffic to route between VPCs. It is recommended that a metric filter and alarm be established for changes made to VPCs.
Perform the following to ensure a log metric filter and alarm exist for VPC changes
Note : Filter pattern for VPC changes
filterPattern”: “{ ($.eventName = CreateVpc) || ($.eventName = DeleteVpc) ||
($.eventName = ModifyVpcAttribute) || ($.eventName = AcceptVpcPeeringConnection) ||
($.eventName = CreateVpcPeeringConnection) || ($.eventName =
DeleteVpcPeeringConnection) || ($.eventName = RejectVpcPeeringConnection) ||
($.eventName = AttachClassicLinkVpc) || ($.eventName = DetachClassicLinkVpc) ||
($.eventName = DisableVpcClassicLink) || ($.eventName = EnableVpcClassicLink) }”
Perform the following to setup the metric filter, alarm, SNS topic, and subscription:
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