# Monitoring Amazon Transcribe with AWS CloudTrail
Amazon Transcribe is integrated with AWS CloudTrail, a service that provides a record of actions taken in Amazon Transcribe by an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) user or role, or by an AWS service. CloudTrail captures all API calls for Amazon Transcribe. That includes calls from the AWS Management Console and code calls to the Amazon Transcribe APIs, as events. By creating a trail, you can enable continuous delivery of CloudTrail events, including events for Amazon Transcribe, to an Amazon S3 bucket. If you don't create a trail, you can still view the most recent events in the CloudTrail AWS Management Console in **Event history**. Using the information collected by CloudTrail, you can see each request that is made to Amazon Transcribe, the IP address from which the request is made, who made the request, when it is made, and additional details.
To learn more about CloudTrail, refer to the [https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awscloudtrail/latest/userguide/](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awscloudtrail/latest/userguide/).
## Amazon Transcribe and CloudTrail
CloudTrail is enabled on your AWS account when you create the account. When activity occurs in Amazon Transcribe, that activity is recorded in a CloudTrail event along with other AWS service events in the CloudTrail **Event history**. You can view, search, and download recent events in your AWS account. For more information, see [Viewing Events with CloudTrail Event History](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awscloudtrail/latest/userguide/view-cloudtrail-events.html).
To get an ongoing record of events in your AWS account, including events for Amazon Transcribe, create a trail. A *trail* is a configuration that enables CloudTrail to deliver events as log files to a specified Amazon S3 bucket. CloudTrail log files contain one or more log entries. An *event* represents a single request from any source. It includes information about the requested action, the date and time of the action, request parameters, and so on. CloudTrail log files aren't an ordered stack trace of the public API calls, so they don't appear in any specific order.
By default, when you create a trail in the AWS Management Console, the trail applies to all AWS Regions. The trail logs events from all AWS Regions in the AWS partition and delivers the log files to the Amazon S3 bucket that you specify. Additionally, you can configure other AWS services to further analyze and act upon the event data collected in CloudTrail logs. For more information, see:
+ [Overview for Creating a Trail](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awscloudtrail/latest/userguide/cloudtrail-create-and-update-a-trail.html)
+ [CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awscloudtrail/latest/userguide/cloudtrail-aws-service-specific-topics.html#cloudtrail-aws-service-specific-topics-integrations)
+ [Configuring Amazon SNS Notifications for CloudTrail](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awscloudtrail/latest/userguide/getting_notifications_top_level.html)
+ [Receiving CloudTrail Log Files from Multiple Regions](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awscloudtrail/latest/userguide/receive-cloudtrail-log-files-from-multiple-regions.html) and [Receiving CloudTrail Log Files from Multiple Accounts](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awscloudtrail/latest/userguide/cloudtrail-receive-logs-from-multiple-accounts.html)
CloudTrail logs all Amazon Transcribe actions, which are documented in the [API Reference](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/APIReference/API_Reference.html). For example, the [https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/APIReference/API_CreateVocabulary.html](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/APIReference/API_CreateVocabulary.html), [https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/APIReference/API_GetTranscriptionJob.html](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/APIReference/API_GetTranscriptionJob.html), and [https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/APIReference/API_StartTranscriptionJob.html](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/APIReference/API_StartTranscriptionJob.html) operations generate entries in the CloudTrail log files. When CloudTrail logs Amazon Transcribe API operations, the CloudTrail log entry uses empty strings for sensitive information in the request and response parameters, such as Amazon S3 URI values.
Every event or log entry contains information about who generated the request. This information helps you determine the following:
+ Whether the request is made with root or IAM user credentials
+ Whether the request is made with temporary security credentials for an IAM role or federated user
+ Whether the request is made by another AWS service
For more information, see the [CloudTrail userIdentity Element](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awscloudtrail/latest/userguide/cloudtrail-event-reference-user-identity.html).
You can also aggregate Amazon Transcribe log files from multiple AWS Regions and multiple AWS accounts into a single Amazon S3 bucket. For more information, see [Receiving CloudTrail Log Files from Multiple Regions](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awscloudtrail/latest/userguide/receive-cloudtrail-log-files-from-multiple-regions.html) and [Receiving CloudTrail Log Files from Multiple Accounts](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awscloudtrail/latest/userguide/cloudtrail-receive-logs-from-multiple-accounts.html).
### Example: Amazon Transcribe log file entries
A *trail* is a configuration that enables delivery of events as log files to a specified Amazon S3 bucket. CloudTrail log files contain one or more log entries. An *event* represents a single request from any source. It includes such information about the requested action as the date and time of the action, and request parameters. CloudTrail log files aren't an ordered stack trace of the public API calls, so they don't appear in any specific order.
Calls to the [https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/APIReference/API_StartTranscriptionJob.html](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/APIReference/API_StartTranscriptionJob.html) and [https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/APIReference/API_GetTranscriptionJob.html](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/APIReference/API_GetTranscriptionJob.html) API operations create the following entry.
**Note**
When CloudTrail logs Amazon Transcribe API operations, the CloudTrail log entry uses empty strings for sensitive information in the request and response parameters, such as Amazon S3 URI values.
```
{
"Records": [
{
"eventVersion": "1.05",
"userIdentity": {
"type": "IAMUser",
"principalId": "111122223333",
"arn": "arn:aws:iam:us-west-2:111122223333:user/my-user-name",
"accountId": "111122223333",
"accessKeyId": "AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE",
"userName": "my-user-name"
},
"eventTime": "2022-03-07T15:03:45Z",
"eventSource": "transcribe.amazonaws.com",
"eventName": "StartTranscriptionJob",
"awsRegion": "us-west-2",
"sourceIPAddress": "127.0.0.1",
"userAgent": "[]",
"requestParameters": {
"mediaFormat": "flac",
"languageCode": "en-US",
"transcriptionJobName": "my-first-transcription-job",
"media": {
"mediaFileUri": ""
}
},
"responseElements": {
"transcriptionJob": {
"transcriptionJobStatus": "IN_PROGRESS",
"mediaFormat": "flac",
"creationTime": "2022-03-07T15:03:44.229000-08:00",
"transcriptionJobName": "my-first-transcription-job",
"languageCode": "en-US",
"media": {
"mediaFileUri": ""
}
}
},
"requestID": "47B8E8D397DCE7A6",
"eventID": "cdc4b7ed-e171-4cef-975a-ad829d4123e8",
"eventType": "AwsApiCall",
"recipientAccountId": "111122223333"
},
{
"eventVersion": "1.05",
"userIdentity": {
"type": "IAMUser",
"principalId": "111122223333",
"arn": "arn:aws:iam:us-west-2:111122223333:user/my-user-name",
"accountId": "111122223333",
"accessKeyId": "AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE",
"userName": "my-user-name"
},
"eventTime": "2022-03-07T15:07:11Z",
"eventSource": "transcribe.amazonaws.com",
"eventName": "GetTranscriptionJob",
"awsRegion": "us-west-2",
"sourceIPAddress": "127.0.0.1",
"userAgent": "[]",
"requestParameters": {
"transcriptionJobName": "my-first-transcription-job"
},
"responseElements": {
"transcriptionJob": {
"settings": {
},
"transcriptionJobStatus": "COMPLETED",
"mediaFormat": "flac",
"creationTime": "2022-03-07T15:03:44.229000-08:00",
"transcriptionJobName": "my-first-transcription-job",
"languageCode": "en-US",
"media": {
"mediaFileUri": ""
},
"transcript": {
"transcriptFileUri": ""
}
}
},
"requestID": "BD8798EACDD16751",
"eventID": "607b9532-1423-41c7-b048-ec2641693c47",
"eventType": "AwsApiCall",
"recipientAccountId": "111122223333"
}
]
}
```