Use DescribeTrails with a CLI

To describe a trail

The following describe-trails example returns the settings for Trail1 and Trail2.

aws cloudtrail describe-trails \
    --trail-name-list Trail1 Trail2

Output:

{
    "trailList": [
        {
            "IncludeGlobalServiceEvents": true,
            "Name": "Trail1",
            "TrailARN": "arn:aws:cloudtrail:us-east-1:123456789012:trail/Trail1",
            "LogFileValidationEnabled": false,
            "IsMultiRegionTrail": false,
            "S3BucketName": "amzn-s3-demo-bucket",
            "CloudWatchLogsRoleArn": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/CloudTrail_CloudWatchLogs_Role",
            "CloudWatchLogsLogGroupArn": "arn:aws:logs:us-east-1:123456789012:log-group:CloudTrail:*",
            "SnsTopicName": "my-topic",
            "HomeRegion": "us-east-1"
        },
        {
            "IncludeGlobalServiceEvents": true,
            "Name": "Trail2",
            "S3KeyPrefix": "my-prefix",
            "TrailARN": "arn:aws:cloudtrail:us-east-1:123456789012:trail/Trail2",
            "LogFileValidationEnabled": false,
            "IsMultiRegionTrail": false,
            "S3BucketName": "amzn-s3-demo-bucket2",
            "KmsKeyId": "arn:aws:kms:us-east-1:123456789012:key/4c5ae5ac-3c13-421e-8335-c7868ef6a769",
            "HomeRegion": "us-east-1"
        }
    ]
}

Example 1: Returns the settings of all trails associated with the current region for your account.

Get-CTTrail

Example 2: Returns the settings for the specified trails.

Get-CTTrail -TrailNameList trail1,trail2

Example 3: Returns the settings for the specified trails that were created in a region other than the current shell default (in this case the Frankfurt (eu-central-1) region).

Get-CTTrail -TrailNameList trailABC,trailDEF -Region eu-central-1