AWS Account Activity Activeboard

Purpose

AWS CloudTrail is an AWS service that helps enable governance, compliance, and operational risk auditing in AWS accounts. CloudTrail records any action that is taken by a user, role, or AWS service. The events include actions taken in the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface, and AWS SDKs and APIs.

Included widgets

Account Activity: Simple value widget	EC2 Activity: Simple value widget	S3 Gets: Table widget
Console Logins: Table widget	STS - Activity by EC2 Instance: Table widget	Get by Bucket, User: Voronoi widget
Console Logins Map: Heatmap widget	S3: Simple value widget	S3 Puts: Table widget
Root Account Usage: Table widget	Bucket Filter: Select input	Put by Bucket, User: Voronoi widget

Prerequisites

To use this Activeboard, you must have the following data sources available in your domain:

cloud.aws.cloudtrail ^{learn more}

Open Activeboard

Once you have installed the Activeboard, you can use the Open button at the top right of the card in Exchange to access it and see the different widgets populated with the relevant data. You can also access the Activeboard area via the Navigation pane.

Data loading takes too long?

Sometimes some widgets take time to upload the data, it is possible to speed up the process by creating aggregation tasks. Refer to the Aggregation tasks article to learn how to do it.

Use Activeboard

After installing and opening the Activeboard, you can use its widgets to visualize and monitor data. To do this, each widget offers a variety of customization and visualization options. Refer to Using widgets and Using inputs to know them all.