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AWS CloudTrail monitoring integration

New Relic integrations include an integration for reporting your AWS CloudTrail events to New Relic. This document explains how to activate this integration and describes the data that can be reported.

Features

This integration collects information from AWS CloudTrail, which captures and records AWS account activity, mainly for audit and governance purposes.

New Relic's AWS CloudTrail integration collects events that represent errors and AWS console logins. Errors give you awareness about API calls and services that have failed, and console logins help you monitor console activity and potential intrusion attempts.

Besides these two types of data, New Relic does not collect any other data.

Activate integration

Important

The AWS CloudTrail integration collects data from us-east-1 region only by default. To enable all AWS regions please contact us at support.newrelic.com.

To enable this integration follow standard procedures to Connect AWS services to New Relic.

Configuration and polling

You can change the polling frequency and filter data using configuration options.

Default polling information for the AWS CloudTrail integration:

  • New Relic polling interval: 5 minutes

Find and use data

To find your integration data in infrastructure, go to one.newrelic.com > All capabilities > Infrastructure > AWS and select one of the AWS CloudTrail integration links.

This integration does not provide metrics: only event data. In our infrastructure UI, you can use the Events page to view a timeline of these events.

You can query and explore your data using the InfrastructureEvent event type, with a provider value of CloudTrail.

For general information about how to find and use integration data, see Understand integration data.

Event attributes

Here are attributes that can be reported with CloudTrail events:

Metadata

Description

awsRegion

The AWS region the request was made of.

cloudTrailEventType

Identifies the type of event that generated the event record. This can be the one of the following values: AwsApiCall, AwsServiceEvent, ConsoleSignin.

errorCode

The AWS service error (if the request returns an error). For a list of the most common errors, see the AWS CloudTrail documentation.

errorMessage

If the request returns an error, the description of the error.

eventId

The unique identifier of the event.

eventName

The requested action.

eventSource

The AWS service the request was made of.

sourceIpAddress

The IP address from which the request was made.

userAgent

The agent through which the request was made, such as the AWS Management Console, an AWS service, the AWS SDKs, or the AWS CLI.

userName

The user name or role name of the requester that called the API in the event returned.

Query examples

You can use New Relic to run queries of AWS CloudTrail data, and optionally use New Relic to set alerts on that data.

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