create-flow-logs¶

Description¶

Creates one or more flow logs to capture information about IP traffic for a specific network interface, subnet, or VPC.

Flow log data for a monitored network interface is recorded as flow log records, which are log events consisting of fields that describe the traffic flow. For more information, see Flow Log Records in the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide .

When publishing to CloudWatch Logs, flow log records are published to a log group, and each network interface has a unique log stream in the log group. When publishing to Amazon S3, flow log records for all of the monitored network interfaces are published to a single log file object that is stored in the specified bucket.

For more information, see VPC Flow Logs in the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide .

Synopsis¶

  create-flow-logs
[--dry-run | --no-dry-run]
[--client-token <value>]
[--deliver-logs-permission-arn <value>]
[--log-group-name <value>]
--resource-ids <value>
--resource-type <value>
--traffic-type <value>
[--log-destination-type <value>]
[--log-destination <value>]
[--log-format <value>]
[--tag-specifications <value>]
[--max-aggregation-interval <value>]
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]
[--cli-auto-prompt <value>]

Options¶

--dry-run | --no-dry-run (boolean)

Checks whether you have the required permissions for the action, without actually making the request, and provides an error response. If you have the required permissions, the error response is DryRunOperation . Otherwise, it is UnauthorizedOperation .

--client-token (string)

Unique, case-sensitive identifier that you provide to ensure the idempotency of the request. For more information, see How to Ensure Idempotency .

--deliver-logs-permission-arn (string)

The ARN for the IAM role that permits Amazon EC2 to publish flow logs to a CloudWatch Logs log group in your account.

If you specify LogDestinationType as s3 , do not specify DeliverLogsPermissionArn or LogGroupName .

--log-group-name (string)

The name of a new or existing CloudWatch Logs log group where Amazon EC2 publishes your flow logs.

If you specify LogDestinationType as s3 , do not specify DeliverLogsPermissionArn or LogGroupName .

--resource-ids (list)

The ID of the subnet, network interface, or VPC for which you want to create a flow log.

Constraints: Maximum of 1000 resources

(string)

Syntax:

"string" "string" ...

--resource-type (string)

The type of resource for which to create the flow log. For example, if you specified a VPC ID for the ResourceId property, specify VPC for this property.

Possible values:

VPC

Subnet

NetworkInterface

--traffic-type (string)

The type of traffic to log. You can log traffic that the resource accepts or rejects, or all traffic.

Possible values:

ACCEPT

REJECT

ALL

--log-destination-type (string)

Specifies the type of destination to which the flow log data is to be published. Flow log data can be published to CloudWatch Logs or Amazon S3. To publish flow log data to CloudWatch Logs, specify cloud-watch-logs . To publish flow log data to Amazon S3, specify s3 .

If you specify LogDestinationType as s3 , do not specify DeliverLogsPermissionArn or LogGroupName .

Default: cloud-watch-logs

Possible values:

cloud-watch-logs

s3

--log-destination (string)

Specifies the destination to which the flow log data is to be published. Flow log data can be published to a CloudWatch Logs log group or an Amazon S3 bucket. The value specified for this parameter depends on the value specified for LogDestinationType .

If LogDestinationType is not specified or cloud-watch-logs , specify the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the CloudWatch Logs log group. For example, to publish to a log group called my-logs , specify arn:aws:logs:us-east-1:123456789012:log-group:my-logs . Alternatively, use LogGroupName instead.

If LogDestinationType is s3 , specify the ARN of the Amazon S3 bucket. You can also specify a subfolder in the bucket. To specify a subfolder in the bucket, use the following ARN format: bucket_ARN/subfolder_name/ . For example, to specify a subfolder named my-logs in a bucket named my-bucket , use the following ARN: arn:aws:s3:::my-bucket/my-logs/ . You cannot use AWSLogs as a subfolder name. This is a reserved term.

--log-format (string)

The fields to include in the flow log record, in the order in which they should appear. For a list of available fields, see Flow Log Records . If you omit this parameter, the flow log is created using the default format. If you specify this parameter, you must specify at least one field.

Specify the fields using the ${field-id} format, separated by spaces. For the AWS CLI, use single quotation marks (‘ ‘) to surround the parameter value.

--tag-specifications (list)

The tags to apply to the flow logs.

(structure)

The tags to apply to a resource when the resource is being created.

ResourceType -> (string)

The type of resource to tag. Currently, the resource types that support tagging on creation are: capacity-reservation | client-vpn-endpoint | dedicated-host | dhcp-options | export-image-task | export-instance-task | fleet | fpga-image | host-reservation | import-image-task | import-snapshot-task | instance | internet-gateway | ipv4pool-ec2 | ipv6pool-ec2 | key-pair | launch-template | placement-group | prefix-list | natgateway | network-acl | security-group | spot-fleet-request | spot-instances-request | snapshot | subnet | traffic-mirror-filter | traffic-mirror-session | traffic-mirror-target | transit-gateway | transit-gateway-attachment | transit-gateway-route-table | volume |vpc | vpc-endpoint (for interface and gateway endpoints) | vpc-endpoint-service (for AWS PrivateLink) | vpc-flow-log .

To tag a resource after it has been created, see CreateTags .

Tags -> (list)

The tags to apply to the resource.

(structure)

Describes a tag.

Key -> (string)

The key of the tag.

Constraints: Tag keys are case-sensitive and accept a maximum of 127 Unicode characters. May not begin with aws: .

Value -> (string)

The value of the tag.

Constraints: Tag values are case-sensitive and accept a maximum of 255 Unicode characters.

Shorthand Syntax:

ResourceType=string,Tags=[{Key=string,Value=string},{Key=string,Value=string}] ...

JSON Syntax:

[
  {
    "ResourceType": "client-vpn-endpoint"|"customer-gateway"|"dedicated-host"|"dhcp-options"|"elastic-ip"|"elastic-gpu"|"export-image-task"|"export-instance-task"|"fleet"|"fpga-image"|"host-reservation"|"image"|"import-image-task"|"import-snapshot-task"|"instance"|"internet-gateway"|"key-pair"|"launch-template"|"local-gateway-route-table-vpc-association"|"natgateway"|"network-acl"|"network-interface"|"placement-group"|"reserved-instances"|"route-table"|"security-group"|"snapshot"|"spot-fleet-request"|"spot-instances-request"|"subnet"|"traffic-mirror-filter"|"traffic-mirror-session"|"traffic-mirror-target"|"transit-gateway"|"transit-gateway-attachment"|"transit-gateway-multicast-domain"|"transit-gateway-route-table"|"volume"|"vpc"|"vpc-peering-connection"|"vpn-connection"|"vpn-gateway"|"vpc-flow-log",
    "Tags": [
      {
        "Key": "string",
        "Value": "string"
      }
      ...
    ]
  }
  ...
]

--max-aggregation-interval (integer)

The maximum interval of time during which a flow of packets is captured and aggregated into a flow log record. You can specify 60 seconds (1 minute) or 600 seconds (10 minutes).

When a network interface is attached to a Nitro-based instance , the aggregation interval is always 60 seconds or less, regardless of the value that you specify.

Default: 600

--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml (string) Reads arguments from the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by --generate-cli-skeleton. If other arguments are provided on the command line, those values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally. This may not be specified along with --cli-input-yaml.

--generate-cli-skeleton (string) Prints a JSON skeleton to standard output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value input, prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for --cli-input-json. Similarly, if provided yaml-input it will print a sample input YAML that can be used with --cli-input-yaml. If provided with the value output, it validates the command inputs and returns a sample output JSON for that command.

--cli-auto-prompt (boolean) Automatically prompt for CLI input parameters.

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

Examples¶

Example 1: To create a flow log

The following create-flow-logs example creates a flow log that captures all rejected traffic for the specified network interface. The flow logs are delivered to a log group in CloudWatch Logs using the permissions in the specified IAM role.

aws ec2 create-flow-logs \
    --resource-type NetworkInterface \
    --resource-ids eni-11223344556677889 \
    --traffic-type REJECT \
    --log-group-name my-flow-logs \
    --deliver-logs-permission-arn arn:aws:iam::123456789101:role/publishFlowLogs

Output:

{
    "ClientToken": "so0eNA2uSHUNlHI0S2cJ305GuIX1CezaRdGtexample",
    "FlowLogIds": [
        "fl-12345678901234567"
    ],
    "Unsuccessful": []
}

Example 2: To create a flow log with a custom format

The following create-flow-logs example creates a flow log that captures all traffic for the specified VPC and delivers the flow logs to an Amazon S3 bucket. The --log-format parameter specifies a custom format for the flow log records.

aws ec2 create-flow-logs \
    --resource-type VPC \
    --resource-ids vpc-00112233344556677 \
    --traffic-type ALL \
    --log-destination-type s3 \
    --log-destination arn:aws:s3:::flow-log-bucket/my-custom-flow-logs/ \
    --log-format '${version} ${vpc-id} ${subnet-id} ${instance-id} ${srcaddr} ${dstaddr} ${srcport} ${dstport} ${protocol} ${tcp-flags} ${type} ${pkt-srcaddr} ${pkt-dstaddr}'

Example 3: To create a flow log with a one-minute maximum aggregation interval

The following create-flow-logs example creates a flow log that captures all traffic for the specified VPC and delivers the flow logs to an Amazon S3 bucket. The --max-aggregation-interval parameter specifies a maximum aggregation interval of 60 seconds (1 minute).

aws ec2 create-flow-logs \
    --resource-type VPC \
    --resource-ids vpc-00112233344556677 \
    --traffic-type ALL \
    --log-destination-type s3 \
    --log-destination arn:aws:s3:::flow-log-bucket/my-custom-flow-logs/ \
    --max-aggregation-interval 60

For more information, see VPC Flow Logs in the Amazon VPC User Guide.

Output¶

ClientToken -> (string)

Unique, case-sensitive identifier that you provide to ensure the idempotency of the request.

FlowLogIds -> (list)

The IDs of the flow logs.

(string)

Unsuccessful -> (list)

Information about the flow logs that could not be created successfully.

(structure)

Information about items that were not successfully processed in a batch call.

Error -> (structure)

Information about the error.

Code -> (string)

The error code.

Message -> (string)

The error message accompanying the error code.

ResourceId -> (string)

The ID of the resource.

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