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
CloudTrail
menu when you click on theEvent history
button. TheEvent history
page 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
Trails
dashboard. This can be accessed by going to theTrails
console by clicking on theTrails
option in the menu on the left-hand side:

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