Cloud Config monitors the changes of resources within your account, tracks configuration changes, and evaluates configuration compliance in real time. You can configure the monitoring scope of resources with a few clicks.

Monitoring scope

After Cloud Config is activated, the resource types supported by all services are automatically added to the monitoring scope by default.
  • If you select All Supported Resource Types on the Monitoring Scope page, new resource types supported by Cloud Config are automatically added to the monitoring scope by default.
  • If you select Custom Resource Types on the Monitoring Scope page, you can select resource types as needed, and Cloud Config can monitor only the resources of the custom resource types.

Monitoring status

The following part describes the monitoring status of resources in Cloud Config:
  • Not monitored
    • If a resource type is in the monitoring scope, you can view the resources of the resource type in the resource list.
    • If a resource type is removed from the monitoring scope, the resources of the resource type are not displayed in the resource list. In addition, Cloud Config stops recording configuration changes for the resources of the resource type, but the existing configuration change history of the resources is not deleted.
  • Monitoring
    If you add a resource type that has been removed from the monitoring scope to the monitoring scope again, the resources of the resource type reappear in the resource list. Cloud Config records configuration changes for the resources of the resource type again, and the existing configuration change history of the resources can be viewed normally.
    Note Cloud Config does not record configuration changes for the resources of the resource type that is not in the monitoring scope.