AWS EventBridge Pattern not capturing all events from SecretManager - amazon-web-services

I have the following pattern in event bridge:
{
"source": [
"aws.secretsmanager"
],
"detail-type": [
"AWS API Call via CloudTrail"
],
"detail": {
"eventSource": [
"secretsmanager.amazonaws.com"
],
"eventName": [
"CreateSecret",
"UpdateSecret",
"DeleteSecret",
"PutSecretValue",
"GetSecretValue",
"ListSecrets",
"RotationFailed",
"RotationSucceeded",
"DescribeSecret"
]
}
}
it is pointing to a Lambda that prints the event to Cloudwatch. Works just fine but when i try to capture events like:
"ListSecrets",
"RotationFailed",
"RotationSucceeded",
"DescribeSecret"
They never get capture by the event system filter i created. Other actions like Update/Create/Delete works just fine.
Is there any steps i am missing to get those?
Documentation Reference: https://docs.amazonaws.cn/en_us/secretsmanager/latest/userguide/retrieve-ct-entries.html
Thanks

All events that are delivered via CloudTrail have AWS API Call via CloudTrail as the value for detail-type. Events from API actions that start with the keywords List, Get, or Describe are not processed by EventBridge, with the exception of events from the following STS actions: GetFederationToken and GetSessionToken. Data events (for example, for Amazon S3 object level events, DynamoDB, and AWS Lambda) must have trails configured to receive those events. Learn more.
Warning from AWS at EventBridge page about Secrets Manager

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{
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}
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{
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"bucket": {
"name": ["my-bucket"]
}
}
}
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{
"detail-type": ["AWS API Call via CloudTrail"],
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"eventSource": ["s3.amazonaws.com"],
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}
}
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{
"detail-type": ["AWS API Call via CloudTrail"],
"source": ["aws.s3"],
"detail": {
"eventSource": ["s3.amazonaws.com"],
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"bucketName": ["my-bucket"]
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{
"source": [
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],
"detail-type": [
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],
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{
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"detail-type": [
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],
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So you want to trigger a lambda function/ECS task based on an API call.This cloudwatch event rule service will depend on the type of API call you are running.
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{
"source": [
"aws.s3"
],
"detail-type": [
"AWS API Call via CloudTrail"
],
"detail": {
"eventSource": [
"s3.amazonaws.com"
],
"eventName": [
"PutObject"
]
}
}
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I am trying to configure a Cloudwatch Event Rule (to trigger an SNS notification) for whenever
someone assumes a particular role:
{
"detail": {
"eventName": [
"AssumeRole"
],
"eventSource": [
"sts.amazonaws.com"
],
"requestParameters": {
"roleArn": [
"arn:aws:iam::0000:role/the_role_name"
]
}
},
"detail-type": [
"AWS API Call via CloudTrail"
]
}
Where 0000 is the account id and the_role_name is the role I want to alert on.
This is failing to trigger any notification, however when I search in Cloudtrail Insights for the
events:
filter eventName = 'AssumeRole'
| filter requestParameters.roleArn =~ 'the_role_name'
| sort #timestamp desc
| display #timestamp, requestParameters.roleSessionName, eventName, requestParameters.roleArn, userAgent, sourceIPAddress
I DO get results that SHOULD have triggered the rule:
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...
For the sake of trying to dumb things down and catch a broader set of events, I also tried the
following Rule (which would catch all AssumeRole events to any role):
{
"detail": {
"eventName": [
"AssumeRole"
]
},
"detail-type": [
"AWS API Call via CloudTrail"
]
}
This rule also is failing to trigger.
Does anyone have ideas on how to configure Cloudwatch Event Rules to trigger on AssumeRole events?
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If it is not triggered, there could be issues with trail delivery to Cloudwatch Logs. Make sure that you created a trail in the same region, which delivers events to Cloudwatch Logs.
I've the following rule in us-east-1 region, which works fine:
{
"detail-type": [
"AWS API Call via CloudTrail"
],
"detail": {
"eventSource": [
"sts.amazonaws.com"
],
"eventName": [
"AssumeRole"
]
},
"source": [
"aws.sts"
]
}
According an an AWS Support agent I was speaking with yesterday, and also indicated by the linked documents, Eventbridge Rules (formerly Cloudwatch Event Rules) unfortunately do not support STS events.
What's perplexing about this and might lead you down a wrong path, as it did me, is that the sts test-event-pattern api will in fact validate your event against a valid pattern and give no indication that it's an unsupported service.
Hopefully AWS adds STS event support in the future.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/latest/userguide/eb-service-event.html