Understanding CloudTrail
CloudTrail is another monitoring service of AWS where you can look at all of the events and trails that have happened in your AWS account. This service is a bit more detailed than the CloudWatch service in how it records and stores the events and trails. So, we shall explore and learn about this service in the following steps:
- The AWS CloudTrail's dashboard can be accessed at console.aws.amazon.com/cloudtrail/:

- The list of events in your AWS account can be seen on the left-hand side of the
CloudTrailmenu when you click on theEvent historybutton. TheEvent historypage looks like this:

- The third functionality of CloudTrail is the trails. The user can set up trails for their AWS services, such as Lambda. The trails that have been set up can be found on the
Trailsdashboard. This can be accessed by going to theTrailsconsole by clicking on theTrailsoption in the menu on the left-hand side:

- Now, let us understand how to create a trail in the
CloudTraildashboard. You...