Use GetTrailStatus with a CLI

To get the status of a trail

The following get-trail-status command returns the delivery and logging details for Trail1:

aws cloudtrail get-trail-status --name Trail1

Output:

{
  "LatestNotificationTime": 1454022144.869,
  "LatestNotificationAttemptSucceeded": "2016-01-28T23:02:24Z",
  "LatestDeliveryAttemptTime": "2016-01-28T23:02:24Z",
  "LatestDeliveryTime": 1454022144.869,
  "TimeLoggingStarted": "2015-11-06T18:36:38Z",
  "LatestDeliveryAttemptSucceeded": "2016-01-28T23:02:24Z",
  "IsLogging": true,
  "LatestCloudWatchLogsDeliveryTime": 1454022144.918,
  "StartLoggingTime": 1446834998.695,
  "StopLoggingTime": 1446834996.933,
  "LatestNotificationAttemptTime": "2016-01-28T23:02:24Z",
  "TimeLoggingStopped": "2015-11-06T18:36:36Z"
}

Example 1: Returns status information for the trail with name 'myExampleTrail'. Returned data includes information on delivery errors, Amazon SNS and Amazon S3 errors, and start and stop logging times for the trail. This example assumes the trail was created in the same region as the current shell default.

Get-CTTrailStatus -Name myExampleTrail

Example 2: Returns status information for a trail that was created in a region other than the current shell default (in this case, the Frankfurt (eu-central-1) region).

Get-CTTrailStatus -Name myExampleTrail -Region eu-central-1

Example 1: Returns status information for the trail with name 'myExampleTrail'. Returned data includes information on delivery errors, Amazon SNS and Amazon S3 errors, and start and stop logging times for the trail. This example assumes the trail was created in the same region as the current shell default.

Get-CTTrailStatus -Name myExampleTrail

Example 2: Returns status information for a trail that was created in a region other than the current shell default (in this case, the Frankfurt (eu-central-1) region).

Get-CTTrailStatus -Name myExampleTrail -Region eu-central-1