AWS CloudTrail metrics

Once you’ve integrated with AWS CloudWatch, you have access to metrics from AWS Cloud Trail, a monitoring solution for activity in your AWS Account focused on security and audit use cases.

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To verify metrics are reporting, search for the metrics on the Metric details page in Settings.

The following table shows the CloudTrail metrics ingested by Cloud Observability.

Metric Name Unit Description
aws.cloudtrail.units bytes The amount of event data ingested in the last hour. (Updated hourly)
aws.cloudtrail.total_data_retained bytes The amount of event data retained in the entire retension period. (Updated nightly)

See also

Ingest metrics from Amazon

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Updated Dec 1, 2022