Logging API calls with AWS CloudTrail
AWS WAF, AWS Shield Advanced, and AWS Firewall Manager are integrated with AWS CloudTrail, a service that provides a record of actions taken by a user, role, or an AWS service. CloudTrail captures a subset of API calls for these services as events, including calls from the AWS WAF, Shield Advanced or Firewall Manager consoles and from code calls to the AWS WAF, Shield Advanced, or Firewall Manager APIs. If you create a trail, you can enable continuous delivery of CloudTrail events to an Amazon S3 bucket, including events for AWS WAF, Shield Advanced, or Firewall Manager. If you don't configure a trail, you can still view the most recent events in the CloudTrail console in Event history. Using the information collected by CloudTrail, you can determine the request that was made to these services, the IP address that the request was made from, who made the request, when it was made, and additional details.
To learn more about CloudTrail, including how to configure and enable it, see the AWS CloudTrail User Guide.
CloudTrail is enabled on your AWS account when you create the account. When supported event activity occurs in AWS WAF, Shield Advanced, or Firewall Manager, that activity is recorded in a CloudTrail event along with other AWS service events in Event history. You can view, search, and download recent events in your AWS account. For more information, see Viewing Events with CloudTrail Event History.
For an ongoing record of events in your AWS account, including events for AWS WAF, Shield Advanced, or Firewall Manager, create a trail. A trail enables CloudTrail to deliver log files to an Amazon S3 bucket. By default, when you create a trail on the console, the trail applies to all Regions. The trail logs events from all 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 the following:
