# Creating rules to send Amazon Quick Sight events to Amazon CloudWatch
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You can write simple rules to indicate which Amazon Quick Sight events interest you and which automated actions to take when an event matches a rule. For example, you can configure Amazon Quick Sight to send events to Amazon CloudWatch whenever a Amazon Quick Sight asset is placed in a folder. For more information, see the [Amazon EventBridge user guide](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/latest/userguide/eb-what-is.html).

1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the CloudWatch console at [https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/](https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/).

1. Under **Events** in the navigation pane, choose **Rules**.

1. Choose **Create rule**.

1. Enter a name and description for the rule. The rule name must be unique within this Region. For example, enter `QuickSightAssetChangeRuleCloudWatch`.

1. Choose **default** Event bus.

1. Choose **Rule with an event pattern**, and then choose **Next**.

1. For **Event source**, choose **AWS events or EventBridge partner events**.

1. In the **Creation method** section, choose **Custom pattern (JSON editor)**.

1. In the **Event pattern** text box, enter the following snippet and choose **Next**.

   ```
   {
     "source": ["aws.quicksight"]
   }
   ```

   Alternatively, you can create the rule that only subscribes to a subset of event types in Amazon Quick Sight. For example, the following rule will only triggered when an asset is added to or removed from a folder with id `77e307e8-b41b-472a-90e8-fe3f471537be`.

   ```
   {
     "source": ["aws.quicksight"],
     "detail-type": ["QuickSight Folder Membership Updated"],
     "detail": {
       "folderId": "77e307e8-b41b-472a-90e8-fe3f471537be"
     }
   }
   ```

1. For **Targets**, choose **AWS service** > **CloudWatch log group.**

1. Choose from an existing log group or create a new one by entering a new log group name.

1. Optionally, you can add another target for this rule.

1. In **Configure tags**, choose **Next**.

1. Choose **Create rule**.

For more information, see [Creating Amazon EventBridge rule that reacts To events](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/latest/userguide/eb-create-rule.html) in the Amazon EventBridge user guide.