**To describe a trail**

The following ``describe-trails`` command returns the settings for ``Trail1`` and ``Trail2``::

  aws cloudtrail describe-trails --trail-name-list Trail1 Trail2

Output::

  {
   "trailList": [
       {
           "IncludeGlobalServiceEvents": true, 
           "Name": "Trail1", 
           "TrailARN": "arn:aws:cloudtrail:us-east-1:123456789012:trail/Trail1", 
           "LogFileValidationEnabled": false, 
           "IsMultiRegionTrail": false, 
           "S3BucketName": "my-bucket", 
           "CloudWatchLogsRoleArn": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/CloudTrail_CloudWatchLogs_Role", 
           "CloudWatchLogsLogGroupArn": "arn:aws:logs:us-east-1:123456789012:log-group:CloudTrail:*", 
           "SnsTopicName": "my-topic", 
           "HomeRegion": "us-east-1"
       }, 
       {
           "IncludeGlobalServiceEvents": true, 
           "Name": "Trail2", 
           "S3KeyPrefix": "my-prefix", 
           "TrailARN": "arn:aws:cloudtrail:us-east-1:123456789012:trail/Trail2", 
           "LogFileValidationEnabled": false, 
           "IsMultiRegionTrail": false, 
           "S3BucketName": "my-bucket", 
           "KmsKeyId": "arn:aws:kms:us-east-1:123456789012:key/4c5ae5ac-3c13-421e-8335-c7868ef6a769", 
           "HomeRegion": "us-east-1"
       }
    ]
  }