AWS CloudTrail to Amazon QuickSight Integration
AI-first ETL from AWS CloudTrail into Amazon QuickSight. Governed entities, incremental sync, typed landing tables.
How Datrise loads AWS CloudTrail into Amazon QuickSight
Datrise syncs AWS CloudTrail's API events, identities, resources, event sources, error codes, and request parameters into Amazon QuickSight as warehouse tables or a SPICE-loaded dataset. Flexible or custom fields land in flattened columns for analyses, and timestamps such as created, updated, and status changes are typed as date/time fields.
Sync is incremental: Datrise uses incremental refresh of the tables behind SPICE or direct query, so re-runs update only what changed. Date-partitioned facts to bound SPICE refresh. QuickSight SPICE is an in-memory copy, so Datrise keeps the backing tables incremental so refreshes stay cheap.
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Endpoints
AWS CloudTrail: AWS account activity and API audit logging.
Amazon QuickSight: AWS serverless BI with SPICE and embedded analytics.
How AWS CloudTrail entities map to Amazon QuickSight
| AWS CloudTrail entity | Amazon QuickSight object | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| API events | aws_cloudtrail_api_events | date/time fields events |
| identities | aws_cloudtrail_identities | id PK · linked to aws_cloudtrail_api_events |
| resources | aws_cloudtrail_resources | id PK · linked to aws_cloudtrail_api_events |
| event sources | aws_cloudtrail_event_sources | date/time fields events |
FAQ
How does Datrise handle AWS CloudTrail's custom fields in Amazon QuickSight?
Flexible values are stored as flattened columns for analyses, so new fields don't require a migration; strongly-typed fields — dates, numbers, and references — are promoted to native Amazon QuickSight types.
How does the AWS CloudTrail to Amazon QuickSight sync stay up to date?
It runs incrementally — Datrise uses incremental refresh of the tables behind SPICE or direct query.
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