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Cloud Trail Overview

KakaoCloud Cloud Trail automatically collects and records user activities, such as logins, resource creation, changes, deletions, etc. It is designed to easily track and manage user activities, allowing you to see what activities have been performed by whom. Whenever a specific user in KakaoCloud creates or modifies resources, all such activities are recorded through Cloud Trail.

You can view events from the console for the last 90 days for auditing purposes to ensure compliance with security policies. It also allows you to see recent activities in projects and whether unauthorized users have accessed or performed actions in the project.

The events collected by Cloud Trail are divided into organization events that occur at the organization level and project events that occur at the project level.

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Monitoring of servers, services, service status, etc., rather than user activities, can be obtained from a monitoring service. For details, refer to the Monitoring.

Purpose and use cases​

In a cloud environment without security monitoring, it can be challenging to detect security events in real-time and respond to them, leading to increased security risks. Even if security incidents occur, it may be difficult to trace their cause and scope. Therefore, it is recommended to use Cloud Trail to monitor and record all activities occurring in a cloud environment to detect cloud security and compliance violations, optimize resource usage, and detect abnormal activities.

Features​

Activity tracking via filtering​

  • Easily track desired event information using various filters such as time period, service, and user based on your requirements.

Audit​

  • Detailed records of user activities using services and resources in the last 90 days can be used as audit data to verify compliance with security policies.

Project-based event logging​

  • View events from the last 90 days occurring in projects.
  • Easily check recent activities in projects and whether unauthorized users have accessed or performed actions in the project from the console.

Event dashboard​

  • View events occurring in projects on a dashboard in graph form.
  • Understand event trends by service during the selected time period.

Detailed information provided​

  • Detailed event information provided for managing user activities (event occurrence time, event name, user, source IP, resource type, name, ID, and logs).

Free of charge​

  • Provided with no additional cost to KakaoCloud accounts.

Getting started​

For detailed usage guides on Virtual Machine, please refer to How-to Guides. If you are new to KakaoCloud, start with the Start section.