As discussed in the previous section, you can easily create different CloudWatch metrics and alarms for monitoring your CloudTrail Log files. Luckily for us, AWS provides a really simple and easy to use CloudFormation template, which allows you to get up and running with a few essential alarms in a matter of minutes! The best part of this template is that you can extend the same by adding your own custom alarms and notifications as well. So without any further ado, let's get started with it.
The template itself is fairly simple and easy to work with. You can download a version at https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/awscloudtrail/cloudwatch-alarms-for-cloudtrail-api-activity/CloudWatch_Alarms_for_CloudTrail_API_Activity.json ...
