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ActionTrail:StartLogging

Last Updated:Sep 30, 2024

Enables a trail to deliver events to an Object Storage Service (OSS) bucket or a Log Service Logstore.

Operation description

This topic describes how to enable logging for a sample trail named trail-test.

Debugging

OpenAPI Explorer automatically calculates the signature value. For your convenience, we recommend that you call this operation in OpenAPI Explorer.

Authorization information

The following table shows the authorization information corresponding to the API. The authorization information can be used in the Action policy element to grant a RAM user or RAM role the permissions to call this API operation. Description:

  • Operation: the value that you can use in the Action element to specify the operation on a resource.
  • Access level: the access level of each operation. The levels are read, write, and list.
  • Resource type: the type of the resource on which you can authorize the RAM user or the RAM role to perform the operation. Take note of the following items:
    • The required resource types are displayed in bold characters.
    • If the permissions cannot be granted at the resource level, All Resources is used in the Resource type column of the operation.
  • Condition Key: the condition key that is defined by the cloud service.
  • Associated operation: other operations that the RAM user or the RAM role must have permissions to perform to complete the operation. To complete the operation, the RAM user or the RAM role must have the permissions to perform the associated operations.
OperationAccess levelResource typeCondition keyAssociated operation
actiontrail:StartLoggingupdate
  • All Resources
    *
    none
none

Request parameters

ParameterTypeRequiredDescriptionExample
NamestringYes

The name of the trail that you want to enable.

The name must be 6 to 36 characters in length, and can contain lowercase letters, digits, hyphens (-), and underscores (_). It must start with a lowercase letter.

Note The name must be unique within your Alibaba Cloud account.
trail-test

For more information about common request parameters, see Common parameters.

Response parameters

ParameterTypeDescriptionExample
object
RequestIdstring

The ID of the request.

145318BE-DEE1-4C57-AA7C-5BE7D34A6AE0

Examples

Sample success responses

JSONformat

{
  "RequestId": "145318BE-DEE1-4C57-AA7C-5BE7D34A6AE0"
}

Error codes

HTTP status codeError codeError messageDescription
404TrailNotFoundExceptionThe specified Trail does not exist.The specified Trail is not existed.

For a list of error codes, visit the Service error codes.

Change history

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