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Cloud Trail Overview

KakaoCloud Cloud Trail automatically collects and records user activity. It is designed to help you easily track and manage activities such as logins and resource creation, modification, and deletion. In Cloud Trail, an individual record of user activity is called an "event," and the actor who performs the activity recorded in an event is called a "user." All activities, such as creating a resource or changing its specifications, are recorded in Cloud Trail.

You can view events from the last 90 days within a project in the console and use them as audit data to verify compliance with security policies. You can also identify recent activity in the project and the user who performed each activity.

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. You can check detailed event lists by service in Events by service.

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KakaoCloud Cloud Trail focuses on automatically collecting and recording user activity. To monitor servers, networks, applications, and resource status rather than user activity, see Monitoring.

Purpose and use cases​

Without security monitoring, detecting and responding to security events in real time can be difficult, increasing security risks in a cloud environment. Tracing the cause and scope of a security incident can also be difficult. Use Cloud Trail to monitor and record all activity in your cloud environment to strengthen cloud security, meet compliance requirements, use resources efficiently, and detect abnormal activity.

Features​

Activity tracking via filtering​

  • Easily track events using filters such as period, service, and user.

Audit​

  • Use detailed records of user activity involving services and resources over the last 90 days as audit data to verify compliance with security policies.

Organization- and project-level event logging​

  • View project events from the last 90 days.
  • Easily identify recent project activity and the user who performed each activity in the console.
  • View organization events from organization-scoped services. Only users who have a project role and either the Organization Admin or Trail Viewer role can view organization events.

Event dashboard​

  • View project events in daily, weekly, or monthly charts on the dashboard.
  • View the resource types with the most events, along with the event count and percentage for every resource type.

Detailed event information​

  • View detailed event information for tracking user activity, including date and time, name, cloud account, user ID, source IP, service, resource type, resource name, resource ID, and logs.

No additional charge​

  • Available to KakaoCloud accounts at no additional charge.

Getting started​

For detailed instructions on using Cloud Trail, see How-to Guides. If you are new to KakaoCloud, see Get started with KakaoCloud first.