This topic describes the release notes of ActionTrail features and provides links to the relevant topics.
April 2021
| Feature | Description | Release date | Supported region | Related topic |
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| Event alerting | The event alerting feature allows you to configure alert rules for a trail if the trail is configured to deliver events to a specified Log Service Logstore. When the alert rules are triggered by sensitive or abnormal operations, you can receive alert notifications and manage the operations. | 2021-04 | All regions | Overview |
March 2021
| Feature | Description | Release date | Supported region | Related topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cross-account event delivery | The cross-account event delivery feature allows you to deliver the events of multiple Alibaba Cloud accounts or those of multiple member accounts in your resource directory to the Log Service Logstore or Object Storage Bucket (OSS) bucket specified by an account. This helps you archive and monitor auditing data in a centralized manner. | 2021-03 | All regions | |
| More supported Alibaba Cloud services and fields for Inner-ActionTrail |
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2021-03 | All regions |
January 2021
| Feature | Description | Release date | Supported region | Related topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Historical event delivery tasks | A historical event delivery task delivers the events that occurred in the last 90 days and are recorded by ActionTrail to OSS or Log Service. Then, you can analyze or download these events based on your business requirements. | 2021-01 | All regions | Create a historical event delivery task |
December 2020
| Feature | Description | Release date | Supported region | Related topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced event query | The advanced event query feature allows you to perform advanced event queries based on a trail that is configured to deliver events to a specified Log Service Logstore. You can specify multiple criteria to query the events that are associated with multiple Alibaba Cloud services and occurred in multiple regions more than 90 days ago. | 2020-12 | All regions | Perform advanced event queries in the ActionTrail console |
October 2020
| Feature | Description | Release date | Supported region | Related topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Event summary queries | The event summary query feature is added to the ActionTrail console. ActionTrail generates event summaries every 2 hours. You can query the event summaries in the ActionTrail console to improve event query efficiency. | 2020-10 | All regions | Event summary query |
September 2020
| Feature | Description | Release date | Supported region | Related topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best practices | The Best Practices page is added to the ActionTrail console. You can view the best practices about operations such as creating trails and analyzing events on this page. | 2020-09 | All regions |
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August 2020
| Feature | Description | Release date | Supported region | Related topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Optimization in trails | Trails that are created in all regions can be viewed in a specific region. This facilitates trail management. The method that is used to create a trail is also updated. | 2020-08 | All regions |
July 2020
| Feature | Description | Release date | Supported region | Related topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Details about events | Details about events, such as the source (Alibaba Cloud service), operator, and name of each event, are added. | 2020-07 | All regions | Query events in the ActionTrail console |
March 2020
| Feature | Description | Release date | Supported region | Related topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Multi-account trails | The events of all member accounts in a resource directory of an enterprise can be delivered to a specified OSS bucket or Log Service Logstore. | 2020-03 | All regions |
February 2020
| Feature | Description | Release date | Supported region | Related topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| More supported Alibaba Cloud services | Events of more Alibaba Cloud services are supported. | 2020-02 | All regions | Supported cloud services and events |
| Optimized engine for online event queries | Multiple query criteria can be selected. A single criterion supports multiple options. | 2020-02 | All regions | Query events in the ActionTrail console |
January 2020
| Feature | Description | Release date | Supported region | Related topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notifications for event delivery | After you enable this feature, you can receive notifications from a Message Service (MNS) topic after ActionTrail delivers events to a specified OSS bucket. | 2020-01 | All regions | Create a single-account trail |
| OSS server-side encryption | You can configure server-side encryption for the events to be delivered to an OSS bucket. | 2020-01 | All regions | Create a single-account trail |
December 2019
| Feature | Description | Release date | Supported region | Related topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Integration with the ECS console | Events of an Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instance can be viewed in the ECS console. | 2019-12 | All regions | Query events in the ECS console |
| Multiple trails | A maximum of five trails can be created in each region. You can create trails to track and record different types of events that occur in different regions and deliver the events to specified OSS buckets or Log Service Logstores based on your business requirements. | 2019-12 | All regions | Create a single-account trail |
| Region selection for trails | Trails can be created to track and record events in one or more regions based on your business requirements. | 2019-12 | All regions | Create a single-account trail |
| Online query of events that occurred within 90 days | The online query of events that occurred in the last 90 days is supported without the need to create trails. The number of days that an event can be stored for query in the ActionTrail console is increased from 30 days to 90 days. You can create trails to store the events for a longer period of time and query them later. | 2019-12 | All regions | Query events in the ActionTrail console |
November 2019
| Feature | Description | Release date | Supported region | Related topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Direct use of the service | Direct use of the service for all valid Alibaba Cloud accounts is supported. You do not need to activate ActionTrail. | 2019-11 | All regions | Billing |
| Best practices | Best practices are provided to help you use ActionTrail and understand the compliance auditing in Alibaba Cloud. | 2019-11 | All regions |
October 2019
| Feature | Description | Release date | Supported region | Related topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| More supported Alibaba Cloud services | Events of more Alibaba Cloud services are supported. | 2019-10 | All regions | Supported cloud services and events |
September 2019
| Feature | Description | Release date | Supported region | Related topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inner-ActionTrail | Events that are initiated by Alibaba Cloud can be tracked and recorded. This improves the transparency of O&M in Alibaba Cloud. Only events of OSS are supported. You can submit a ticket to use this feature. | 2019-9 | Regions supported by the China site (aliyun.com) | Enable the inner-ActionTrail feature |