Logentries offers a free CloudTrail service Logentries.com Inc. has announced a beta log auditing service for users of Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS). This will allow them to track security and resource usage data. CloudTrail is a Web-service that records API calls on user accounts and delivers log files directly to their Amazon S3 storage boxes. The company stated that the weekly reporting service gives an automated log-level view of valuable intelligence about AWS account modifications, such as most common security-related action, most frequent errors and most active users, as well as an audit trail of account change changes. Logentries announced that customers of its service can sign up for the new service, and receive weekly reports free of charge as part of its new initiative. The Logentries Data Insights team vetted the log data analytics. Trevor Parsons, Logentries executive, posted last week that the first report will include a summary of metrics listing the following:

System activity over time (days, weeks, totals). The most common security-related actions. The most active users During the course of an instance, it can.