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Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure
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Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure

by Yohan Wadia, Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan, Udita Gupta
January 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
690 pages
16h
English
Packt Publishing
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Monitoring CloudTrail Logs using CloudWatch

One of the best features of using CloudTrail is that you can easily integrate it with other AWS services for an enhanced security auditing and governance experience. One such service that we are going to use and explore here with CloudTrail is Amazon CloudWatch.

Using CloudWatch, you can easily set up custom metric filters and an array of alarms that can send notifications to the right set of people in case a specific security or governance issue occurs in your AWS environment. To get started with CloudWatch using CloudTrail, you will first need to configure your Trail to send the captured log events to CloudWatch Logs. This can be easily configured using both the AWS Management Console and the ...

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