Generating sample findings in GuardDuty
Amazon GuardDuty helps you generate sample findings to visualize and understand the various finding types that it can generate. When you generate sample findings, GuardDuty populates your current findings list with one sample for each supported finding type, including attack sequence finding types.
The generated samples are approximations populated with placeholder values. These samples may look different from real findings for your environment, but you can use them to test various configurations for GuardDuty, such as your EventBridge events or filters. For a list of available values for finding types, see GuardDuty finding types table.
Generating sample findings through the GuardDuty console or API
Choose your preferred access method to generate sample findings.
Note
The GuardDuty console helps you generate one of each finding type. To generate one or more specific finding types, perform the associated API/CLI steps.
The title of sample findings generated through these methods always begins with
[SAMPLE] in the console. Sample findings have a value of
"sample": true in the additionalInfo section of
the finding JSON details.
To understand the finding details, such as finding severity and potentially compromised resource, associated with the generated findings, see Severity levels of GuardDuty findings and Finding details.
To generate some common findings based on a simulated activity in a dedicated and isolated AWS account within your environment, see Test GuardDuty findings in dedicated accounts.
