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ActionTrail:Audit events of ActionTrail

Last Updated:Jan 12, 2026

ActionTrail records the operations that you perform in Alibaba Cloud services. ActionTrail itself is also an Alibaba Cloud service. Therefore, ActionTrail also records the operations that you perform in ActionTrail. You can view the events of ActionTrail as needed. ActionTrail can deliver user-initiated events of ActionTrail to a Log Service Logstore or an Object Storage Service (OSS) bucket for real-time audit and backtracking and analysis of issues.

The user-initiated events are generated when you perform operations on ActionTrail resources by calling API operations or in the ActionTrail console. The following table describes the audit user-initiated events of ActionTrail.

Event

Description

CheckOssConfig

You check the OSS configuration of a trail.

CreateDeliveryHistoryJob

You create a historical event delivery task.

CreateInnerTrail

You create a trail for the Inner-ActionTrail feature.

CreateServiceLinkedRole

You create a service-linked role for ActionTrail.

CreateTrail

You create a trail.

DeleteDeliveryHistoryJob

You delete a historical event delivery task.

DeleteInnerTrail

You delete a trail for the Inner-ActionTrail feature.

DeleteTrail

You delete a trail.

DescribeInnerTrails

You query the trails for the Inner-ActionTrail feature in a specific region.

DescribeInsightEnabledTrails

You query the trails for which the insight event feature is enabled.

DescribeInsightIpList

You query the IP addresses for which insight events are generated.

DescribeInsightMetricData

You query the metrics of insight events.

DescribeInsightStrategy

You query the IP address blacklist and whitelist for insight events.

DescribeRegions

You query the Alibaba Cloud regions that are supported by ActionTrail.

DescribeResourceLifeCycleEvents

You query resource lifecycle events.

DescribeScenes

You query all scenarios that are supported by the advanced event query feature.

DescribeSearchTemplates

You query all templates.

DescribeSupportedServices

You query the Alibaba Cloud services that are supported by ActionTrail.

DescribeTrailDeliveryMetricData

You query metrics of event delivery.

DescribeTrails

You query the trails in a specific region.

GetAccessKeyLastUsedEvents

You query the last events in which an AccessKey pair is used.

GetAccessKeyLastUsedInfo

You query the last usage records of an AccessKey pair.

GetAccessKeyLastUsedIps

You query the IP addresses from which Alibaba Cloud services are accessed in the last usage records of an AccessKey pair.

GetAccessKeyLastUsedProducts

You query the Alibaba Cloud services that are accessed in the last usage records of an AccessKey pair.

GetAccessKeyLastUsedResources

You query the resources that are consumed in the last usage records of an AccessKey pair.

GetDefaultTrail

You query the default trail.

GetDeliveryHistoryJob

You query the details of a historical event delivery task.

GetEventsCount

You query the total number of user-initiated events.

GetInsightEventCount

You query the total number of insight events.

GetInsightIpCount

You query the number of IP addresses recorded by insight events.

GetInsightSelectors

You query the configuration of insight events.

GetTrailStatus

You query the status of a trail.

ListDeliveryHistoryJobs

You query the created historical event delivery tasks.

ListEventNames

You query event names.

ListProductResourceType

You query resource types of a specific Alibaba Cloud service.

ListServiceTrail

You query the trails for Alibaba Cloud services.

LookupAggregationEvents

You query aggregate events.

LookupEvents

You query event details.

LookupInsightEvents

You query insight events.

ModifyInsightStrategy

You modify the IP address blacklist and whitelist for insight events.

OpenService

You activate a service.

PutInsightSelectors

You modify the configuration of insight events.

RemoveDefaultTrail

You set the default trail as a non-default trail.

SetDefaultTrail

You specify the default trail.

StartInnerTrailLogging

You enable a trail for the Inner-ActionTrail feature.

StartLogging

You enable logging for a trail.

StopInnerTrailLogging

You disable a trail for the Inner-ActionTrail feature.

StopLogging

You disable logging for a trail.

UpdateInnerTrail

You update the configuration of a trail for the Inner-ActionTrail feature.

UpdateTrail

You update the configuration of a trail.