Monitoring Amazon Transcribe with AWS CloudTrail

Amazon Transcribe is integrated with AWS CloudTrail, a service that provides a record of actions taken in Amazon Transcribe by an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) user or role, or by an AWS service. CloudTrail captures all API calls for Amazon Transcribe. That includes calls from the AWS Management Console and code calls to the Amazon Transcribe APIs, as events. By creating a trail, you can enable continuous delivery of CloudTrail events, including events for Amazon Transcribe, to an Amazon S3 bucket. If you don't create a trail, you can still view the most recent events in the CloudTrail AWS Management Console in Event history. Using the information collected by CloudTrail, you can see each request that is made to Amazon Transcribe, the IP address from which the request is made, who made the request, when it is made, and additional details.

To learn more about CloudTrail, refer to the AWS CloudTrail User Guide.

Amazon Transcribe and CloudTrail

CloudTrail is enabled on your AWS account when you create the account. When activity occurs in Amazon Transcribe, that activity is recorded in a CloudTrail event along with other AWS service events in the CloudTrail Event history. You can view, search, and download recent events in your AWS account. For more information, see Viewing Events with CloudTrail Event History.

To get an ongoing record of events in your AWS account, including events for Amazon Transcribe, create a trail. A trail is a configuration that enables CloudTrail to deliver events as log files to a specified Amazon S3 bucket. CloudTrail log files contain one or more log entries. An event represents a single request from any source. It includes information about the requested action, the date and time of the action, request parameters, and so on. CloudTrail log files aren't an ordered stack trace of the public API calls, so they don't appear in any specific order.

By default, when you create a trail in the AWS Management Console, the trail applies to all AWS Regions. The trail logs events from all AWS Regions in the AWS partition and delivers the log files to the Amazon S3 bucket that you specify. Additionally, you can configure other AWS services to further analyze and act upon the event data collected in CloudTrail logs. For more information, see:

CloudTrail logs all Amazon Transcribe actions, which are documented in the API Reference. For example, the CreateVocabulary, GetTranscriptionJob, and StartTranscriptionJob operations generate entries in the CloudTrail log files.

Every event or log entry contains information about who generated the request. This information helps you determine the following:

For more information, see the CloudTrail userIdentity Element.

You can also aggregate Amazon Transcribe log files from multiple AWS Regions and multiple AWS accounts into a single Amazon S3 bucket. For more information, see Receiving CloudTrail Log Files from Multiple Regions and Receiving CloudTrail Log Files from Multiple Accounts.

Example: Amazon Transcribe log file entries

A trail is a configuration that enables delivery of events as log files to a specified Amazon S3 bucket. CloudTrail log files contain one or more log entries. An event represents a single request from any source. It includes such information about the requested action as the date and time of the action, and request parameters. CloudTrail log files aren't an ordered stack trace of the public API calls, so they don't appear in any specific order.

Calls to the StartTranscriptionJob and GetTranscriptionJob API operations create the following entry.

{
    "Records": [
        {
            "eventVersion": "1.05",
            "userIdentity": {
                "type": "IAMUser",
                "principalId": "111122223333",
                "arn": "arn:aws:iam:us-west-2:111122223333:user/my-user-name",
                "accountId": "111122223333",
                "accessKeyId": "AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE",
                "userName": "my-user-name"
            },
            "eventTime": "2022-03-07T15:03:45Z",
            "eventSource": "transcribe.amazonaws.com",
            "eventName": "StartTranscriptionJob",
            "awsRegion": "us-west-2",
            "sourceIPAddress": "127.0.0.1",
            "userAgent": "[]",
            "requestParameters": {
                "mediaFormat": "flac",
                "languageCode": "en-US",
                "transcriptionJobName": "my-first-transcription-job",
                "media": {
                    "mediaFileUri": "s3://DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET/my-media-file.flac"
                }
            },
            "responseElements": {
                "transcriptionJob": {
                    "transcriptionJobStatus": "IN_PROGRESS",
                    "mediaFormat": "flac",
                    "creationTime": "2022-03-07T15:03:44.229000-08:00",
                    "transcriptionJobName": "my-first-transcription-job",
                    "languageCode": "en-US",
                    "media": {
                        "mediaFileUri": "s3://DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET/my-media-file.flac"
                    }
                }
            },
            "requestID": "47B8E8D397DCE7A6",
            "eventID": "cdc4b7ed-e171-4cef-975a-ad829d4123e8",
            "eventType": "AwsApiCall",
            "recipientAccountId": "111122223333"
        },
        {
            "eventVersion": "1.05",
            "userIdentity": {
                "type": "IAMUser",
                "principalId": "111122223333",
                "arn": "arn:aws:iam:us-west-2:111122223333:user/my-user-name",
                "accountId": "111122223333",
                "accessKeyId": "AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE",
                "userName": "my-user-name"
            },
            "eventTime": "2022-03-07T15:07:11Z",
            "eventSource": "transcribe.amazonaws.com",
            "eventName": "GetTranscriptionJob",
            "awsRegion": "us-west-2",
            "sourceIPAddress": "127.0.0.1",
            "userAgent": "[]",
            "requestParameters": {
                "transcriptionJobName": "my-first-transcription-job"
            },
            "responseElements": {
                "transcriptionJob": {
                    "settings": {
                        
                    },
                    "transcriptionJobStatus": "COMPLETED",
                    "mediaFormat": "flac",
                    "creationTime": "2022-03-07T15:03:44.229000-08:00",
                    "transcriptionJobName": "my-first-transcription-job",
                    "languageCode": "en-US",
                    "media": {
                        "mediaFileUri": "s3://DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET/my-media-file.flac"
                    },
                    "transcript": {
                        "transcriptFileUri": "s3://DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET/my-first-transcription-job.json"
                    }
                }
            },
            "requestID": "BD8798EACDD16751",
            "eventID": "607b9532-1423-41c7-b048-ec2641693c47",
            "eventType": "AwsApiCall",
            "recipientAccountId": "111122223333"
        }        
    ]
}