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StartActivityStream - Amazon Relational Database Service

StartActivityStream

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

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

KmsKeyId

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

Type: String

Required: Yes

Mode

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.

Type: String

Valid Values: sync | async

Required: Yes

ResourceArn

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

Type: String

Required: Yes

ApplyImmediately

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

Type: Boolean

Required: No

EngineNativeAuditFieldsIncluded

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

Type: Boolean

Required: No

Response Elements

The following elements are returned by the service.

ApplyImmediately