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lookup_events

Operation

lookup_events async

lookup_events(input: LookupEventsInput, plugins: list[Plugin] | None = None) -> LookupEventsOutput

Looks up management events or CloudTrail Insights events that are captured by CloudTrail. You can look up events that occurred in a Region within the last 90 days.

Note

LookupEvents returns recent Insights events for trails that enable Insights. To view Insights events for an event data store, you can run queries on your Insights event data store, and you can also view the Lake dashboard for Insights.

Lookup supports the following attributes for management events:

  • Amazon Web Services access key

  • Event ID

  • Event name

  • Event source

  • Read only

  • Resource name

  • Resource type

  • User name

Lookup supports the following attributes for Insights events:

  • Event ID

  • Event name

  • Event source

All attributes are optional. The default number of results returned is 50, with a maximum of 50 possible. The response includes a token that you can use to get the next page of results.

Warning

The rate of lookup requests is limited to two per second, per account, per Region. If this limit is exceeded, a throttling error occurs.

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
input LookupEventsInput

An instance of LookupEventsInput.

required
plugins list[Plugin] | None

A list of callables that modify the configuration dynamically. Changes made by these plugins only apply for the duration of the operation execution and will not affect any other operation invocations.

None

Returns:

Type Description
LookupEventsOutput

An instance of LookupEventsOutput.

Input

LookupEventsInput dataclass

Contains a request for LookupEvents.

Attributes

end_time class-attribute instance-attribute
end_time: datetime | None = None

Specifies that only events that occur before or at the specified time are returned. If the specified end time is before the specified start time, an error is returned.

event_category class-attribute instance-attribute
event_category: EventCategory | None = None

Specifies the event category. If you do not specify an event category, events of the category are not returned in the response. For example, if you do not specify insight as the value of EventCategory, no Insights events are returned.

lookup_attributes class-attribute instance-attribute
lookup_attributes: list[LookupAttribute] | None = None

Contains a list of lookup attributes. Currently the list can contain only one item.

max_results class-attribute instance-attribute
max_results: int | None = None

The number of events to return. Possible values are 1 through 50. The default is 50.

next_token class-attribute instance-attribute
next_token: str | None = None

The token to use to get the next page of results after a previous API call. This token must be passed in with the same parameters that were specified in the original call. For example, if the original call specified an AttributeKey of 'Username' with a value of 'root', the call with NextToken should include those same parameters.

start_time class-attribute instance-attribute
start_time: datetime | None = None

Specifies that only events that occur after or at the specified time are returned. If the specified start time is after the specified end time, an error is returned.

Output

LookupEventsOutput dataclass

Contains a response to a LookupEvents action.

Attributes

events class-attribute instance-attribute
events: list[Event] | None = None

A list of events returned based on the lookup attributes specified and the CloudTrail event. The events list is sorted by time. The most recent event is listed first.

next_token class-attribute instance-attribute
next_token: str | None = None

The token to use to get the next page of results after a previous API call. If the token does not appear, there are no more results to return. The token must be passed in with the same parameters as the previous call. For example, if the original call specified an AttributeKey of 'Username' with a value of 'root', the call with NextToken should include those same parameters.