AWS CloudTrail Reviews & Product Details

✅ Broad event coverage across AWS services, capturing who did what, when, and where, with request/response context suited to audits, security investigations, and ops troubleshooting.

✅ CloudTrail Lake centralizes immutable activity data with SQL analytics, simplifying multi-account and hybrid visibility in one place.

✅ Natural language query generation accelerates investigations by translating prompts into SQL, reducing schema guesswork.

✅ Event enrichment adds resource tags and key context; expanded event size cuts truncation, improving forensic fidelity.

✅ Strong integrations with Athena, EventBridge, CloudWatch, and Lambda enable historical analysis, alerting, and automated remediation.

✅ Clean mapping to compliance needs (SOC, PCI, HIPAA) through immutable event history and repeatable reporting workflows.

✅ Clear positioning versus CloudWatch minimizes tool overlap: CloudTrail for activity/audit events; CloudWatch for metrics/log monitoring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cost can spike with high-volume data events (e.g., S3, Lambda); tight scoping and time-bounded queries become necessary. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cloud Trail gives you end-to-end operational visibility — critical for troubleshooting, auditing, and securing cloud networks; This is the best about it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Slow to query at times, and potentially expensive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The AWS CloudTrail service is very user-friendly just one click, easy in terms of installation and integration, and helpful in enabling auditing, security monitoring, and operational troubleshooting by tracking user activity and API usage. It continuously monitors and keeps account activity related to actions across the AWS infrastructure and gives control over storage, analysis, and remediation actions. AWS provides very good customer support in case of any issue. AWS Cloud Trail is a very frequently usable service in day-to-day activities with in the AWS cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't feel that the AWS CloudTrail has any disadvantage except the high cost incurred for enabling the Data Event only. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Since it logs activities and API calls from IAM , Networking, RW operation, etc, we can ensure the CIA aspect of the event. Who made it, when it was made and is the permissions neccessary for the user or the service principle. This all in big picture helps s to identify what the security posture about the environment. Thats a big deal. All in one place and gets integrated with other services for automation of remediation, revoking, notification, etc. Easy to implement and use, support can be obtained from documentations . This seems to be solid service which should be used side by side everyday for SIEM, SOAR etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing. Already it has defaults and we can enable to our needs accordingly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CloudTrail has been most benefitial in audit and troubleshooting issues. I can't think of working on AWS cloud without using CloudTail. Its been used for all projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Filters may sometimes seems to be limited at times but it gets the job done. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AWS Cloud Trail Stores log events in a centralized location for all the AWS Services and can be viewed. AWS Cloud trail provides near real time events about the services and API call being made Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

If the application grows it is difficult to maintain the logs in the AWS Cloud trail. Stroing of logs can be expensive, logs can be retained for 90 days. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AWS CloudTrail excels in capturing detailed interactions within an AWS environment, providing a robust audit trail for compliance and forensic analysis. Its seamless integration with various AWS services enables comprehensive monitoring, fostering user accountability and governance, especially in regulated industries. Real-time event notifications via Amazon CloudWatch allow proactive monitoring, and the introduction of CloudTrail Insights, utilizing machine learning, enhances threat detection and incident response capabilities. Together, these features make AWS CloudTrail an indispensable tool for securing and ensuring compliance within AWS environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Setting up CloudTrail can be initially complex, especially for users new to AWS or cloud environments, requiring a learning curve to configure trails and understand event logging nuances.

Limited Log Retention Periods:

CloudTrail's default 90-day log retention period may be restrictive for certain compliance requirements, necessitating careful consideration and configuration adjustments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Super Easy to Enable and Capture every aws api activity which helps in a lot of aspect with respect to the right access

2. Mandatory for security compliance

3. API Exceptions like Throttling or Insufficient Capacity can be caught easily

4. Integration with CloudWatch Log Insights helps in querying and filtering. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. There are delays in capturing the requests. In case you are debugging something on real time with support team, you may need to wait until it captures the event.

2. The latency could be even higher if your account usage is more - i.e., large volume and usage of AWS Services and Resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Few points i'd like to mention :-

Comprehensive Logging of each event happening in your account.

Easy to integrate/use with almost all services. (My case :- implemented a AWS lambda function which takes and aggregates logs of all services from cloudTrail and put it in S3).

AWS documentation is easy to read and understand and we all know to that AWS has excellent customer support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It get's a little complex with we involve and gather logs from multi account environments.

Logs are not instantly produced, they get's delayed.

Sometimes Alerts comes after 5-6 minutes of activity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cloudtrail is easily integrated with AWS cloud infrastructure. It is extremely easy to set up access management with cloud IAM. Aws specific alerting and monitoring is well integrated with cloudtrail. Cloudtrail also allowed me to do advanced log analytics by using some external services. It's very easy to maintain organisational compliance metrics all in one place. The information is well documented by AWS and anyone 2ith minimal knowledge of cloud can understand. Aws cloud support is top-knotch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cloudtrail is very expensive compared to it's peers like datadog and sumologic. The logs format and shapeis fixed as a JSON format and is not customizable. Overall less customization is provided for user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.