Checking the status of a sensitive data discovery job
When you create a sensitive data discovery job, its initial status is Active (Running) or Active (Idle), depending on the job's type and schedule. The job then passes through additional states, which you can monitor as the job progresses.
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In addition to monitoring the overall status of a job, you can monitor specific events that occur as a job progresses. You can do this by using logging data that Amazon Macie automatically publishes to Amazon CloudWatch Logs. The data in these logs provides a record of changes to a job's status and details about any account- or bucket-level errors that occur while a job runs. For more information, see Monitoring jobs with CloudWatch Logs.
To check the status of a job
Follow these steps to check the status of a job by using the Amazon Macie console. To check a job's status programmatically, use the DescribeClassificationJob operation of the Amazon Macie API.
Open the Amazon Macie console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/macie/
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In the navigation pane, choose Jobs. The Jobs page opens and displays the number of jobs in your inventory and a table of those jobs.
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At the top of the page, choose refresh (
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In the Jobs table, locate the job whose status you want to check. To find the job more quickly, you can filter the table by using the filter options above the table. You can also sort the table in ascending or descending order by certain fields.
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Refer to the Status field in the table. This field indicates the job's current status.
A job's status can be one of the following.
- Active (Idle)
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For a periodic job, the previous run is complete and the next scheduled run is pending. This value doesn't apply to one-time jobs.
- Active (Running)
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For a one-time job, the job is currently in progress. For a periodic job, a scheduled run is in progress.
- Cancelled
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For any type of job, the job was stopped permanently (cancelled).
A job has this status if you explicitly cancelled it or, if it's a one-time job, you paused the job and didn't resume it within 30 days. A job can also have this status if you previously suspended Macie in the current AWS Region.
- Complete
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For a one-time job, the job ran successfully and is now complete. This value doesn't apply to periodic jobs. Instead, the status of a periodic job changes to Active (Idle) when each run completes successfully.
- Paused (By Macie)
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For any type of job, the job was stopped temporarily (paused) by Macie.
A job has this status if completion of the job or a job run would exceed the monthly sensitive data discovery quota for your account. When this happens, Macie automatically pauses the job. Macie automatically resumes the job when the next calendar month starts and the monthly quota is reset for your account, or you increase the quota for your account.
If you’re the Macie administrator for an organization and you configured the job to analyze data for member accounts, the job can also have this status if completion of the job or a job run would exceed the monthly sensitive data discovery quota for a member account.
If a job is running and the analysis of eligible objects reaches this quota for a member account, the job stops analyzing objects that are owned by the account. When the job finishes analyzing objects for all other accounts that haven’t met the quota, Macie automatically pauses the job. If it’s a one-time job, Macie automatically resumes the job when the next calendar month starts or the quota is increased for all the affected accounts, whichever occurs first. If it’s a periodic job, Macie automatically resumes the job when the next run is scheduled to start or the next calendar month starts, whichever occurs first. If a scheduled run starts before the next calendar month starts or the quota is increased for an affected account, the job doesn’t analyze objects that are owned by the account.
- Paused (By user)
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For any type of job, the job was stopped temporarily (paused) by you.
If you pause a one-time job and you don't resume it within 30 days, the job expires and Macie cancels it. If you pause a periodic job while it's actively running and you don't resume it within 30 days, the job's run expires and Macie cancels the run. To check the expiration date for a paused job or job run, choose the job's name in the table, and then refer to the Expires field in the Status details section of the details panel.
If a job is cancelled or paused, you can refer to the job's details to determine whether the job started to run or, for a periodic job, ran at least once before it was cancelled or paused. To do this, choose the job's name in the Jobs table, and then refer to the details panel. In the panel, the Number of runs field indicates the number of times that the job has run. The Last run time field indicates the most recent date and time when the job started to run.
Depending on the job’s current status, you can optionally pause, resume, or cancel the job. For more information, see Changing the status of a job.
