Amazon S3 Bucket Logging for audit and to track file access and download

If you need to track your data transfer on your Amazon S3 account , Bucket Explorer provides you bucket logging service.

Set logging : Using this option, you can log all the activities on specified bucket . To activate logging for the bucket, you only need to right click on bucket and choose the "Bucket Logging option"
Remove Bucket Logging : Using this option, you can disable or remove bucket logging for already logged bucket.

Follow the steps to enable/ set Amazon S3 bucket logging :

Select the bucket, on which you want to enable/set logging.
Choose “ Logging-> Set “ or can Right click in bucket panel to choose "Bucket Logging operation ->set logging" option
Bucket Explorer shows you bucket logging window in which Bucket Explorer shows bucket logging status, if logging is enabled then it shows bucket name where logs of selected bucket delivered by Amazon otherwise shows " not logged " status.
In this window you need to choose the bucket name, where Amazon will deliver logs, you will need to choose bucket from drop down list related to "Log To" label.
You can also specify log prefix by which you can easily classify and recognize your log. By default Bucket Explorer use the selected bucket name as log prefix .
You can also share logs to other user using “Set Grantee” option. Enter Email Id of user /canonical ID of account with which you want to share the log files.
Now logging is enabled on your selected bucket, and its log will be delivered by Amazon in " Log To " bucket.

Click on Logging -> Remove or right click on bucket and choose "Bucket Logging operation ->Remove" option.
Then it shows message in message box "bucket logging removed for : $BucketName$ "


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