cloudtrail: Also make onCloudTrailEvent a static method

[psyphdawg]

❓ Can you add a mthod to import an existing cloud trail into the stack?

The Question

Can you add an import/lookup method to the trail construct?

I have been tasked with multiple projects to fire to lambda based on cloud trail events. Each time I have had to create a new trail because thre is no lookup method. Is there currently a work around? We have already reached out hard cap of 5 trails.

Thanks

Environment

• CDK CLI Version: 1.26.0
• Module Version: 1.26.0
• OS: all
• Language: all

Other information

AWS has a hard limit of 5 cloud trails per account. Not having a method to import existing trails on the trail construct really limits what you can do with this service in CDK.

[rix0rrr]

You are unlikely to need to import trails into CDK. If you do, there is an issue with the construct library. Most of the event based methods don't actually require THE trail, just A trail be present in the account.

As a workaround, you should probably just emulate what onCloudTrailEvent does and create a Rule object directly:

https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/blob/master/packages/@aws-cdk/aws-cloudtrail/lib/index.ts#L259

[psyphdawg]

Yes thanks, thats exactly what I ended up doing. Because cloud trail sends off to cloud watch I was able to just create a cloud watch rule do accomplish it. Thanks

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On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 2:18 AM Rico Huijbers ***@***.***> wrote: You are unlikely to need to import trails into CDK. If you do, there is an issue with the construct library. Most of the event based methods don't actually require THE trail, just A trail be present in the account. As a workaround, you should probably just emulate what onCloudTrailEvent does and create a Rule object directly: ***@***.***/aws-cloudtrail/lib/index.ts#L259 — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#6716 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AOGPUOZUECE4YWMWLWUBMSLRHXOEHANCNFSM4LHGE7FQ> .

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