Amazon_CloudWatch_5
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 recommended that a metric filter and alarm be established for detecting changes to CloudTrail’s configurations.
Perform the following to ensure a log metric filter and alarm exist for CloudTrail configuration changes
Note : Filter pattern for CloudTrail configuration changes
filterPattern”: “{ ($.eventName = CreateTrail) || ($.eventName = UpdateTrail) ||
($.eventName = DeleteTrail) || ($.eventName = StartLogging) || ($.eventName =
StopLogging) }”
Perform the following to setup the metric filter, alarm, SNS topic, and subscription:
