Strange number of sent emails

Question

I'm new to SES and have barely sent up to 10 emails. But I logged in now and saw 87 on the dashboard as the number of emails that I've sent. 
Is there a way to do granular tracing of which emails has been sent and to who?
I'm using Mailpoet wordpress plugin and Amazon SES. 
Thanks for your help.

Answer

You can use Amazon SES event publishing with an Amazon CloudWatch destination to view more information about sent or delivered emails. This information on CloudWatch includes the IAM user who sent the email. Follow these steps:
1. Create a configuration set with CloudWatch as the event destination.
2. Send a test email from Amazon SES.
3. Check the metric on CloudWatch.

Refer the documentation: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/ses-iam-user-sent-email/

References:
[+] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/monitor-using-event-publishing.html
[+] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/event-publishing-add-event-destination-cloudwatch.html

Answer

There are third party tools available to help you do exactly this (e.g. SES Monitor but search around and there may be others). Ultimately they're using either CloudWatch or SES event notifications but they're often a quick and easy way of getting visibility into these things without having to go through any complex setups.

Alternatively you could push your SES events into SNS to have it send out an email or ping a URL when these things happen. Then you'd just capture the event data and you'll know exactly who those emails are going to.

Strange number of sent emails

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