AWS eventbridge documentation change

Service: eventbridge · 2025-07-16 · Documentation medium

File: eventbridge/latest/userguide/eb-create-event-bus.md

Summary

Added detailed logging configuration options for event buses including log destinations and levels

Security assessment

Introduces documentation for logging features which support security monitoring and auditing capabilities. While logging is a security-adjacent feature, there's no evidence this addresses a specific security vulnerability.

Diff

diff --git a/eventbridge/latest/userguide/eb-create-event-bus.md b/eventbridge/latest/userguide/eb-create-event-bus.md
index 7d4b876c7..8d25617f9 100644
--- a//eventbridge/latest/userguide/eb-create-event-bus.md
+++ b//eventbridge/latest/userguide/eb-create-event-bus.md
@@ -45 +45,21 @@ EventBridge sends events that aren't successfully encrypted to the DLQ, if confi
-  6. Configure optional event bus features:
+  6. (Optional) Under **Logs - optional** , you can set up how EventBridge logs event information, including how to configure those logs. 
+
+For more information about event bus logs, see [Logging event buses ](./eb-event-bus-logs.html).
+
+CloudWatch logs is selected as a log destination by default, as is the `ERROR` log level. So, by default, EventBridge creates a new CloudWatch log group to which it sends log records containing the `ERROR` level of detail.
+
+To have EventBridge send log records to any of the supported log destinations, do the following: 
+
+    1. Under **Logs - optional** , choose the destinations to which you want log records delivered.
+
+    2. For **Log level** , choose the level of information for EventBridge to include in log records. The `ERROR` log level is selected by default.
+
+For more information, see [Specifying log level](./eb-event-bus-logs.html#eb-event-bus-logs-level).
+
+    3. Select **Include detail data** if you want EventBridge to include event and target information in log records.
+
+For more information, see [Including details in logs](./eb-event-bus-logs.html#eb-event-logs-data).
+
+    4. Configure each log destination you selected.
+
+  7. Configure optional event bus features:
@@ -85 +105 @@ A tag is a custom attribute label that you assign to an AWS resource. Use tags t
-  7. Choose **Create**.
+  8. Choose **Create**.