Viewing an Audit Trace

After you enable CTS, the system starts recording operations on SCM. Operation records for the last seven days can be viewed on the CTS console.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the management console.
  2. In the navigation tree on the left, click and choose Cloud Trace Service under Management & Deployment.
  3. Choose Trace List in the navigation pane on the left.
  4. Click Filter and specify filtering criteria as needed. You can select one or more of the following filters to query your traces:

    • Trace Type, Trace Source, Resource Type, and Search By.

      Select the filter from the drop-down list.

      • Set Trace Type to Global.
      • Set Trace Source to SC.
      • When you select Trace name for Search By, you also need to select a specific trace name. When you select Resource ID for Search By, you also need to select or enter a specific resource ID. When you select Resource name for Search By, you also need to select or enter a specific resource name.
    • Operator: Select a specific operator (a user rather than tenant).
    • Trace Rating: Available options include all trace status, normal, warning, and incident. You can only select one of them.
    • Time Range: In the upper right corner of the page, you can query traces in the last 1 hour, last 1 day, last 1 week, or within a customized period.

  5. Click Search to view the corresponding operation event.
  6. Click on the left of a trace to expand its details.

    Figure 1 Expanding trace details

  7. Click View Trace in the Operation column. On the displayed View Trace dialog box shown in Figure 2, the trace structure details are displayed.

    Figure 2 Viewing a trace