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Cloudtrail is an audit log for control plane events (user X did action Y to resource Z). You want operational metrics for your services which is provided by Cloudwatch (AWS naming has always been terrible). Most monitoring services have cloudwatch (or whatever that cloud providers version is called) y default.

If you're on AWS I'd take a peek at their managed Prometheus offering https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/enhance-observability-for-amazon-rds-custom-for-sql-[…]on-managed-service-for-prometheus-and-amazon-managed-grafana/

thanks for the replies @Andrew Kirkpatrick RDS and AWS were just examples. In my case I use both AWS and GCP and I was wondering if there is a tool in which I could monitor all my different resources. @Nathan Hruby you are right, I meant the metrics from Cloudwatch

Hi @Alex Levin, check this one: https://coralogix.com/docs/aws-cloudtrail/

Ah cool. Would still likely recommend looking into Prometheus/Grafana if you want something open-source, plus there's https://grafana.com/products/cloud/ if you need to migrate to something more hands-off. Are you specifically looking for Cloudtrail audit logging for security reasons, or just general multi-cloud monitoring? (wasn't sure if cost was a factor in avoiding providers like Datadog)

And this one: https://coralogix.com/docs/aws-cloudtrail-data-collection-options/ Hope this helpful

@Assaf Shutan thanks I saw that both

Datadog

and

Coralogix

have these integrations, but I never heard of anyone that uses them. Is it any good? Can you actually monitor the health of cloud resources using it?

I am “slightly” biased here as I work for Coralogix, however, yeah 100%, monitoring the health of cloud resources is where we shine. Compared to DD, you should expect a 30%-70% cost reduction, unlimited retention (based on AWS S3), 24\7 real engineers support, open-source-friendly platform (For example: Query language is Lucene\PromQL\SQL, Visualisations are in OpenSearch\Grafana and so on) and many other advantages.