AWS CloudTrail is a web service developed to simplify and provide assistance with AWS accounts. Enabling compliance, governance, and operational and risk auditing, it allows users to monitor, log, and document AWS account-related activity in an easily searchable format. With its comprehensive account event history function, CloudTrail helps users analyze and troubleshoot security and operational issues, detect unusual account activity, and much more by increasing visibility into customers’ user and resource activity.
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1. First, navigate to the AWS Management Console and log in to your account.
2. Once logged in, search for the CloudTrail service and select it.
3. In the CloudTrail dashboard, select the Trails option from the left-hand menu.
4. Click on the name of the trail you want to use as your source connector.
5. In the trail details page, scroll down to the section labeled "Management events" and click on the "Edit" button.
6. In the "Data events" section, click on the "Add data event" button.
7. Select the type of data event you want to capture and configure the settings as needed.
8. Once you have configured the data event, click on the "Save" button to save your changes.
9. Next, navigate to the Airbyte dashboard and select the "Sources" option from the left-hand menu.
10. Click on the "Create a new source" button and select the AWS CloudTrail connector.
11. Enter your AWS access key ID and secret access key in the appropriate fields.
12. Enter the name of the S3 bucket where your CloudTrail logs are stored.
13. Enter the name of the CloudTrail trail you want to use as your source connector.
14. Click on the "Test" button to ensure that your credentials are valid and that Airbyte can connect to your CloudTrail logs.
15. Once the test is successful, click on the "Create" button to create your AWS CloudTrail source connector in Airbyte.
1. Open the Airbyte platform and navigate to the "Destinations" tab on the left-hand side of the screen.
2. Scroll down until you find the "MSSQL - SQL Server" connector and click on it.
3. Click on the "Create new destination" button.
4. Fill in the required information, including the destination name, host, port, database name, username, and password.
5. Click on the "Test connection" button to ensure that the connection is successful.
6. Once the connection is successful, click on the "Save" button to save the destination.
7. Navigate to the "Sources" tab on the left-hand side of the screen and select the source that you want to connect to the MSSQL - SQL Server destination.
8. Click on the "Create new connection" button.
9. Select the MSSQL - SQL Server destination that you just created from the drop-down menu.
10. Fill in the required information for the source, including the source name, host, port, database name, username, and password.
11. Click on the "Test connection" button to ensure that the connection is successful.
12. Once the connection is successful, click on the "Save" button to save the connection.13. You can now start syncing data from your source to your MSSQL - SQL Server destination.
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Frequently Asked Questions
AWS CloudTrail provides access to a wide range of data related to AWS account activity and resource usage. The following are the categories of data that can be accessed through the API:
1. Event history: This includes information about all the events that have occurred in an AWS account, such as API calls, console sign-ins, and resource changes.
2. Resource activity: This category includes data related to the usage of AWS resources, such as EC2 instances, S3 buckets, and RDS databases.
3. User activity: This category includes data related to user activity in an AWS account, such as user sign-ins, password changes, and access key usage.
4. Security analysis: This category includes data related to security events in an AWS account, such as failed login attempts, unauthorized access attempts, and changes to security groups.
5. Compliance auditing: This category includes data related to compliance auditing in an AWS account, such as changes to IAM policies, CloudTrail configuration changes, and VPC network changes.
Overall, the AWS CloudTrail API provides a comprehensive view of AWS account activity and resource usage, making it a valuable tool for monitoring and managing AWS environments.