@aws-sdk/client-guardduty

Description

AWS SDK for JavaScript GuardDuty Client for Node.js, Browser and React Native.

Amazon GuardDuty is a continuous security monitoring service that analyzes and processes the following foundational data sources - VPC flow logs, Amazon Web Services CloudTrail management event logs, CloudTrail S3 data event logs, EKS audit logs, DNS logs, Amazon EBS volume data, runtime activity belonging to container workloads, such as Amazon EKS, Amazon ECS (including Amazon Web Services Fargate), and Amazon EC2 instances. It uses threat intelligence feeds, such as lists of malicious IPs and domains, and machine learning to identify unexpected, potentially unauthorized, and malicious activity within your Amazon Web Services environment. This can include issues like escalations of privileges, uses of exposed credentials, or communication with malicious IPs, domains, or presence of malware on your Amazon EC2 instances and container workloads. For example, GuardDuty can detect compromised EC2 instances and container workloads serving malware, or mining bitcoin.

GuardDuty also monitors Amazon Web Services account access behavior for signs of compromise, such as unauthorized infrastructure deployments like EC2 instances deployed in a Region that has never been used, or unusual API calls like a password policy change to reduce password strength.

GuardDuty informs you about the status of your Amazon Web Services environment by producing security findings that you can view in the GuardDuty console or through Amazon EventBridge. For more information, see the Amazon GuardDuty User Guide .

Installing

To install this package, use the CLI of your favorite package manager:

• npm install @aws-sdk/client-guardduty
• yarn add @aws-sdk/client-guardduty
• pnpm add @aws-sdk/client-guardduty

Getting Started

Import

The AWS SDK is modulized by clients and commands. To send a request, you only need to import the GuardDutyClient and the commands you need, for example ListDetectorsCommand:

// ES5 example
const { GuardDutyClient, ListDetectorsCommand } = require("@aws-sdk/client-guardduty");

// ES6+ example
import { GuardDutyClient, ListDetectorsCommand } from "@aws-sdk/client-guardduty";

Usage

To send a request:

• Instantiate a client with configuration (e.g. credentials, region).
  • See docs/CLIENTS for configuration details.
  • See @aws-sdk/config for additional options.
• Instantiate a command with input parameters.
• Call the send operation on the client, providing the command object as input.

const client = new GuardDutyClient({ region: "REGION" });

const params = { /** input parameters */ };
const command = new ListDetectorsCommand(params);

Async/await

We recommend using the await operator to wait for the promise returned by send operation as follows:

// async/await.
try {
  const data = await client.send(command);
  // process data.
} catch (error) {
  // error handling.
} finally {
  // finally.
}

Promises

You can also use Promise chaining.

client
  .send(command)
  .then((data) => {
    // process data.
  })
  .catch((error) => {
    // error handling.
  })
  .finally(() => {
    // finally.
  });

Aggregated client

The aggregated client class is exported from the same package, but without the "Client" suffix.

GuardDuty extends GuardDutyClient and additionally supports all operations, waiters, and paginators as methods. This style may be familiar to you from the AWS SDK for JavaScript v2.

If you are bundling the AWS SDK, we recommend using only the bare-bones client (GuardDutyClient). More details are in the blog post on modular packages in AWS SDK for JavaScript.

import { GuardDuty } from "@aws-sdk/client-guardduty";

const client = new GuardDuty({ region: "REGION" });

// async/await.
try {
  const data = await client.listDetectors(params);
  // process data.
} catch (error) {
  // error handling.
}

// Promises.
client
  .listDetectors(params)
  .then((data) => {
    // process data.
  })
  .catch((error) => {
    // error handling.
  });

// callbacks (not recommended).
client.listDetectors(params, (err, data) => {
  // process err and data.
});

Troubleshooting

When the service returns an exception, the error will include the exception information, as well as response metadata (e.g. request id).

try {
  const data = await client.send(command);
  // process data.
} catch (error) {
  const { requestId, cfId, extendedRequestId } = error.$metadata;
  console.log({ requestId, cfId, extendedRequestId });
  /**
   * The keys within exceptions are also parsed.
   * You can access them by specifying exception names:
   * if (error.name === 'SomeServiceException') {
   *     const value = error.specialKeyInException;
   * }
   */
}

See also docs/ERROR_HANDLING.

Getting Help

Please use these community resources for getting help. We use GitHub issues for tracking bugs and feature requests, but have limited bandwidth to address them.

• Visit the Developer Guide or API Reference.
• Check out the blog posts tagged with aws-sdk-js on AWS Developer Blog.
• Ask a question on StackOverflow and tag it with aws-sdk-js.
• Join the AWS JavaScript community on gitter.
• If it turns out that you may have found a bug, please open an issue.

To test your universal JavaScript code in Node.js, browser and react-native environments, visit our code samples repo.

Contributing

This client code is generated automatically. Any modifications will be overwritten the next time the @aws-sdk/client-guardduty package is updated. To contribute to client you can check our generate clients scripts.

License

This SDK is distributed under the Apache License, Version 2.0, see LICENSE for more information.

Client Commands (Operations List)