# Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager events
Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager

Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager sends service events directly to EventBridge, as well as via AWS CloudTrail.

## Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager service events
Service events

Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager sends the following events directly to EventBridge: 
+ DLM Policy State Change
+ DLM Pre Post Script Notification

*Delivery type*: [ Best effort ](event-delivery-level.md) 

To match against all events from this service, create an event pattern that matches against the following event attribute:
+ `source`: aws.dlm

```
{
  "source": ["aws.dlm"]
}
```

To match against specific events, include a `detail-type` attribute specifying an array of event names to match. For example:

```
{
  "source": ["aws.dlm"],
  "detail-type": ["DLM Policy State Change"]
}
```

For more information, see [Creating event patterns](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/latest/userguide/eb-event-patterns.html#eb-create-pattern) in the *Amazon EventBridge User Guide*.

## Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager events delivered via AWS CloudTrail
Events via CloudTrail

AWS CloudTrail sends events originating from Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager to EventBridge. AWS services deliver events to CloudTrail on a [best effort](event-delivery-level.md) basis. For more information, see [AWS service events delivered via AWS CloudTrail](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/latest/userguide/eb-service-event-cloudtrail.html) in the *Amazon EventBridge User Guide*.

To match events from this service delivered by AWS CloudTrail, create an event pattern that matches against the following event attributes:
+ `source`: aws.dlm
+ `eventSource`: dlm.amazonaws.com

```
{
  "source": ["aws.dlm"],
  "detail-type": ["AWS API Call via CloudTrail"],
  "detail": {
    "eventSource": ["dlm.amazonaws.com"]
  }
}
```

To match against a specific API calls from this service, include an `eventName` attribute specifying an array of API calls to match:

```
{
  "source": ["aws.dlm"],
  "detail-type": ["AWS API Call via CloudTrail"],
  "detail": {
    "eventSource": ["dlm.amazonaws.com"],
    "eventName": ["api-action-name"]
  }
}
```