Build ActionTrail audit configurations with multi-region trails, OSS archiving, SLS delivery, and event filters.
Last verified: May 2026
Build ActionTrail audit configurations with multi-region trails, OSS archiving, SLS delivery, event filters, and security alerts.
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trailNametrailRegionOutput will appear here...The builder collects trail name, regions covered (single or all-region), OSS bucket for archive, optional SLS project for streaming, event filters (include/exclude by service or event name), and notification routing for security-relevant events. Output is `alicloud_actiontrail_trail` Terraform plus optional SLS delivery configuration.
Alibaba Cloud ActionTrail records management and data events from Alibaba services, IAM actions, resource changes, configuration updates, for security monitoring and audit. The ActionTrail Config Builder generates multi-region trail configurations including OSS archiving, SLS delivery, event filters, and security alerts. Output is Terraform-ready and matches `alicloud_actiontrail_trail`.
An auditor asks for evidence that no RAM policies were modified outside change-management windows over the past year. ActionTrail had the events, but they rolled off the 90-day retention. You configure ActionTrail to archive all management events to OSS with 7-year retention plus an SLS route for real-time alerts on IAM changes outside business hours. Over the next 12 months, you accumulate the audit trail you should have had from day one.
Always archive to OSS for production accounts. The default 90-day retention is too short for most compliance requirements, and OSS archival is cheap enough that there's no reason not to.
Filter aggressively, a typical Alibaba Cloud account generates millions of read events monthly with no security value. Filtering at the source saves both ActionTrail storage and downstream SIEM ingestion cost.
Management events are control-plane operations, provisioning a VPC, attaching a policy, creating a key. Data events are data-plane operations, reading an object from OSS, querying a database. Management events are always captured; data events for some services are optional because they're high-volume and most workloads don't need real-time visibility.
In-service ActionTrail retention is 90 days. For longer retention, archive to OSS, OSS storage is dramatically cheaper than ActionTrail in-service storage, and you can keep events for years for compliance at minimal cost.
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