start-activity-stream¶

Description¶

Starts a database activity stream to monitor activity on the database. For more information, see Database Activity Streams in the Amazon Aurora User Guide .

Synopsis¶

  start-activity-stream
--resource-arn <value>
--mode <value>
--kms-key-id <value>
[--apply-immediately | --no-apply-immediately]
[--engine-native-audit-fields-included | --no-engine-native-audit-fields-included]
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]

Options¶

--resource-arn (string)

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the DB cluster, for example, arn:aws:rds:us-east-1:12345667890:cluster:das-cluster .

--mode (string)

Specifies the mode of the database activity stream. Database events such as a change or access generate an activity stream event. The database session can handle these events either synchronously or asynchronously.

Possible values:

sync

async

--kms-key-id (string)

The Amazon Web Services KMS key identifier for encrypting messages in the database activity stream. The Amazon Web Services KMS key identifier is the key ARN, key ID, alias ARN, or alias name for the KMS key.

--apply-immediately | --no-apply-immediately (boolean)

Specifies whether or not the database activity stream is to start as soon as possible, regardless of the maintenance window for the database.

--engine-native-audit-fields-included | --no-engine-native-audit-fields-included (boolean)

Specifies whether the database activity stream includes engine-native audit fields. This option only applies to an Oracle DB instance. By default, no engine-native audit fields are included.

--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. The generated JSON skeleton is not stable between versions of the AWS CLI and there are no backwards compatibility guarantees in the JSON skeleton generated.

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

Examples¶

Note

To use the following examples, you must have the AWS CLI installed and configured. See the Getting started guide in the AWS CLI User Guide for more information.

Unless otherwise stated, all examples have unix-like quotation rules. These examples will need to be adapted to your terminal’s quoting rules. See Using quotation marks with strings in the AWS CLI User Guide .

To start a database activity stream

The following start-activity-stream example starts an asynchronous activity stream to monitor an Aurora cluster named my-pg-cluster.

aws rds start-activity-stream \
    --region us-east-1 \
    --mode async \
    --kms-key-id arn:aws:kms:us-east-1:1234567890123:key/a12c345d-6ef7-890g-h123-456i789jk0l1 \
    --resource-arn arn:aws:rds:us-east-1:1234567890123:cluster:my-pg-cluster \
    --apply-immediately

Output:

{
    "KmsKeyId": "arn:aws:kms:us-east-1:1234567890123:key/a12c345d-6ef7-890g-h123-456i789jk0l1",
    "KinesisStreamName": "aws-rds-das-cluster-0ABCDEFGHI1JKLM2NOPQ3R4S",
    "Status": "starting",
    "Mode": "async",
    "ApplyImmediately": true
}

For more information, see Starting a database activity stream in the Amazon Aurora User Guide.

Output¶

KmsKeyId -> (string)

The Amazon Web Services KMS key identifier for encryption of messages in the database activity stream.

KinesisStreamName -> (string)

The name of the Amazon Kinesis data stream to be used for the database activity stream.

Status -> (string)

The status of the database activity stream.

Mode -> (string)

The mode of the database activity stream.

ApplyImmediately -> (boolean)

Indicates whether or not the database activity stream will start as soon as possible, regardless of the maintenance window for the database.

EngineNativeAuditFieldsIncluded -> (boolean)

Indicates whether engine-native audit fields are included in the database activity stream.

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