Description:
Real-time monitoring of API calls can be achieved by directing CloudTrail Logs to CloudWatch Logs and establishing corresponding metric filters and alarms. It is recommended that a metric filter and alarm be established for detecting changes to CloudTrail's configurations.
Rationale:
Monitoring changes to AWS Config configuration will help ensure sustained visibility of configuration items within the AWS account.
Perform the following to setup the metric filter, alarm, SNS topic, and subscription:
aws logs put-metric-filter --log-group-name --filter-name '' --metric-transformations metricName= '' ,metricNamespace='CISBenchmark',metricValue=1 --filter-pattern '{ ($.eventSource = config.amazonaws.com) && (($.eventName=StopConfigurationRecorder)||($.eventName=DeleteDeliveryChannel)||($.eventName=PutDeliveryChannel)||($.eventName=PutConfigurationRecorder)) }'
Note: You can choose your own metricName and metricNamespace strings. Using the same metricNamespace for all Foundations Benchmark metrics will group them together.
aws sns create-topic --name
Note: you can execute this command once and then re-use the same topic for all monitoring alarms.
aws sns subscribe --topic-arn --protocol --notification-endpoint
Note: you can execute this command once and then re-use the SNS subscription for all monitoring alarms.
aws cloudwatch put-metric-alarm --alarm-name '' --metric-name '' --statistic Sum --period 300 --threshold 1 --comparison-operator GreaterThanOrEqualToThreshold --evaluation-periods 1 --namespace 'CISBenchmark' --alarm-actions