View audit events of Realtime Compute for Apache Flink - Realtime Compute for Apache Flink

This topic describes how to view audit events of Realtime Compute for Apache Flink by using ActionTrail.

Background information

ActionTrail is a service that monitors and records the actions of your Alibaba Cloud account. The actions include your access to and use of cloud services by using the Alibaba Cloud Management Console, APIs, and SDKs. ActionTrail records these operations as events. You can download these events and deliver them to Simple Log Service Logstores or Object Storage Service (OSS) buckets. Then, you can perform behavior analysis, security analysis, resource change tracking, and compliance auditing based on the events. For more information about ActionTrail, see ActionTrail

Fully managed Flink is connected to ActionTrail. You can view operation events of Realtime Compute for Apache Flink resources and related information free of charge in the ActionTrail console.

Limits

In the ActionTrail console, you can query only the management events that are delivered by single-account trails. You can perform queries at most twice per second. You cannot query the management events that are delivered by multi-account trails in the ActionTrail console. To query such events, go to the required Object Storage Service (OSS) bucket or Simple Log Service Logstore. For more information, see Query events delivered by multi-account trails.
You can use the event query feature to query only the management events that are generated in the current region in the last 90 days.
- To query the management events that were generated in the current region more than 90 days ago, you must create a single-account trail to deliver the management events to OSS or Simple Log Service. Otherwise, you cannot query the management events that were generated more than 90 days ago. For more information, see Create a single-account trail.
- To query the management events that were generated in multiple regions more than 90 days ago, or to filter management events on multiple search conditions, you can use the advanced event query feature. For more information, see Custom event queries.
After a management event is generated within your Alibaba Cloud account, you must wait 10 minutes before you can query the event in the ActionTrail console.

Procedure

Log on to the ActionTrail console.
In the left-side navigation pane, click Events > Event Query.
In the top navigation bar, select the region of the event that you want to query from the drop-down list.
On the Event Detail Query page, enter query conditions, specify a time range, and then click the icon.
Note
Note:
- You can configure the following query conditions to query events: Service Name, Event Name, Operator, Read/Write Type, Event Type, Resource Type, Resource Name, AccessKey ID, Source IP Address, Sensitive Action, and Event ID.
- You can query global events only in the Singapore region.
For example, to find out who created a specific Resource Access Management (RAM) user, select CreateUser in the Event Name filter to query all RAM user creation events. CreateUser is a global event, so you must query it in the Singapore region. Click to view the event details, and check the userIdentity.userName field in the event record to identify the creator.
For example, to find out the account that created a VPC, perform the following steps:
1. On the event query page, set Service Name to Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and set Read/Write Type to Write.
2. In the event list, find the CreateVpc event and click to view the event details.
3. In the event details, check the userIdentity field to identify the account that created the resource:
  - accountId: the ID of the Alibaba Cloud account of the operator.
  - type: the identity type. For example, a value of root-account indicates that the operation was performed by the Alibaba Cloud account, and a value of ram-user indicates that the operation was performed by a RAM user. Other possible values are assumed-role, system, cloud-ssouser, alibaba-cloud-account, and apsara-cloud-account.
  - userName: the username of the operator.
  - principalId: the unique ID of the operator.
Note
CreateVpc is a region-specific event. You can query the event only in the region where the VPC was created. You do not need to switch to a specific region as you would for global events.

Find the event that you want to query and click View Details in the Operation column to view the details of the event.

For more information about the events of Realtime Compute for Apache Flink, see Events of Realtime Compute for Apache Flink. The following example shows an event that a deployment is deleted.

{
  "eventId": "48deee2f-a38b-440b-aae4-168640afd6b8",
  "eventVersion": 1,
  "responseElements": {},
  "errorMessage": "",
  "eventSource": "RealtimeCompute",
  "requestParameters": {},
  "sourceIpAddress": "140.**.**.19",
  "userAgent": "RealtimeCompute",
  "eventRW": "Write",
  "eventType": "ApiCall",
  "referencedResources": {
    "ACS::RealtimeCompute::Deployment": [
      "47eb63e1-79b8-4192-9cd2-059ec5d7****",
      "guiyuan-kafka-writer"
    ]
  },
  "userIdentity": {
    "accessKeyId": "null",
    "sessionContext": {
      "attributes": {
        "mfaAuthenticated": "true",
        "userDisplayName": "25265763711933****",
        "user": "25265763711933****"
      }
    },
    "accountId": "1016954307248737",
    "principalId": "25265763711933****",
    "type": "ram-user",
    "userName": "25265763711933****"
  },
  "serviceName": "RealtimeCompute",
  "additionalEventData": {
    "namespace": "NamespaceRef(name=Optional[daily-instance-not-delete-default])"
  },
  "requestId": "202306021408-LFMZBC059T",
  "eventTime": "2023-06-02T06:08:21Z",
  "isGlobal": false,
  "acsRegion": "cn-beijing",
  "eventName": "DeleteDeployment"
}

Events of Realtime Compute for Apache Flink

For more information about the events of Realtime Compute for Apache Flink that you can view in the ActionTrail console, see Audit events of Realtime Compute for Apache Flink.