Confirming the status of evidence finder - AWS Audit Manager
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This documentation is a draft for private preview for regions in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. Documentation content will continue to evolve. Published: January 8, 2026.

Confirming the status of evidence finder

After you submit your request to enable evidence finder, it takes up to 10 minutes to enable the feature and create an event data store. As soon as the event data store is created, all new evidence is ingested into the event data store moving forward.

When evidence finder is enabled and the event data store is created, we backfill the newly created event data store with up to two years’ worth of your past evidence. This process happens automatically and takes up to seven days to complete.

Follow the steps on this page to check and understand the status of your request to enable evidence finder.

Prerequisites

Make sure that you followed the steps to enable evidence finder. For instructions, see Enabling evidence finder.

Procedure

You can check the current status of evidence finder using the Audit Manager console, the AWS CLI, or the Audit Manager API.

Audit Manager console
To see the current status of evidence finder on the Audit Manager console

  1. Open the AWS Audit Manager console at https://eusc-de-east-1.console.amazonaws-eusc.eu/auditmanager/home.

  2. In the left navigation pane, choose Settings.

  3. Under Enable evidence finder – optional, review the current status.

    Each status is defined as follows:

    Status Description

    Evidence finder isn't enabled

    You haven't successfully enabled evidence finder yet.

    You have requested to enable evidence finder

    Your request is pending the event data store being created.
    Evidence finder is enabled

    The event data store was created. You can now use evidence finder.

    Depending how much evidence you have, it takes up to seven days to backfill the new event data store with your past evidence data. A blue information panel indicates that the data backfill is in progress. Feel free to start exploring evidence finder in the meantime. However, keep in mind that not all data is available until the backfill is complete.

    You have requested to disable evidence finder

    Your request is pending the event data store being deleted.
    Evidence finder has been disabled

    Evidence finder has been permanently disabled and the event data store is deleted.

AWS CLI
To see the current status of evidence finder in the AWS CLI

Run the get-settings command with the --attribute parameter set to EVIDENCE_FINDER_ENABLEMENT.

aws auditmanager get-settings --attribute EVIDENCE_FINDER_ENABLEMENT

This returns the following information:

enablementStatus

This attribute shows the current status of evidence finder.

  • ENABLE_IN_PROGRESS – You requested to enable evidence finder. An event data store is currently being created to support evidence finder queries.

  • ENABLED – An event data store was created and evidence finder is enabled. We recommend waiting seven days until the event data store is backfilled with your past evidence data. You can use evidence finder in the meantime, but not all data is available until the backfill is complete.

  • DISABLE_IN_PROGRESS – You requested to disable evidence finder, and your request is pending the event data store being deleted.

  • DISABLED – You permanently disabled evidence finder and the event data store is deleted. You can't re-enable evidence finder after this point.

backfillStatus

This attribute shows the current status of the evidence data backfill.

  • NOT_STARTED – The backfill hasn’t started yet.

  • IN_PROGRESS – The backfill is in progress. This takes up to seven days to complete, depending on the amount of evidence data.

  • COMPLETED – The backfill is complete. All of your past evidence is now queryable.

Audit Manager API
To see the current status of evidence finder using the API

Call the GetSettings operation with the attribute parameter set to EVIDENCE_FINDER_ENABLEMENT. This returns the following information:

enablementStatus

This attribute shows the current status of evidence finder.

  • ENABLE_IN_PROGRESS - You requested to enable evidence finder. An event data store is currently being created to support evidence finder queries.

  • ENABLED - An event data store was created and evidence finder is enabled. We recommend waiting seven days until the event data store is backfilled with your past evidence data. You can use evidence finder in the meantime, but not all data is available until the backfill is complete.

  • DISABLE_IN_PROGRESS - You requested to disable evidence finder, and your request is pending the deletion of the event data store.

  • DISABLED - You permanently disabled evidence finder and the event data store is deleted. You can't re-enable evidence finder after this point.

backfillStatus

This attribute shows the current status of the evidence data backfill.

  • NOT_STARTED means that the backfill hasn’t started yet.

  • IN_PROGRESS means that the backfill is in progress. This takes up to seven days to complete, depending on the amount of evidence data.

  • COMPLETED means that the backfill is complete. All of your past evidence is now queryable.

For more information, see evidenceFinderEnablement in the Audit Manager API Reference.

Next steps

After evidence finder is successfully enabled, you can start using the feature. We recommend waiting seven days until the event data store is backfilled with your past evidence data. You can use evidence finder in the meantime, but not all data might be available until the backfill is complete.

To get started with evidence finder, see Searching for evidence in evidence finder.

Additional resources