CloudTrail
AWS service that logs all API activity across your AWS infrastructure.
Definition
AWS CloudTrail is a service that enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of your AWS account by recording and logging all API activity and changes across your AWS infrastructure.
In depth
CloudTrail captures who made a request, what was requested, when it happened, and from which IP address — creating a full audit trail of AWS account activity. This data is essential for security investigations, compliance audits, and operational troubleshooting. When integrated with an observability platform, CloudTrail events can be correlated with metrics and traces: for example, a sudden spike in Lambda errors can be traced back to a configuration change recorded in CloudTrail moments earlier. obseria.io ingests CloudTrail logs and correlates them automatically with infrastructure metrics.
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