Request Syntax Request Parameters Response Syntax Response Elements Errors See Also

LookupEvents

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:

AWS 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.

Important

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

Request Syntax


{
   "EndTime": number,
   "EventCategory": "string",
   "LookupAttributes": [ 
      { 
         "AttributeKey": "string",
         "AttributeValue": "string"
      }
   ],
   "MaxResults": number,
   "NextToken": "string",
   "StartTime": number
}

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

EndTime

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.

Type: Timestamp

Required: No

EventCategory

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.

Type: String

Valid Values: insight

Required: No

LookupAttributes

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

Type: Array of LookupAttribute objects

Required: No

MaxResults

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

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 1. Maximum value of 50.

Required: No

NextToken

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.

Type: String

Required: No

StartTime

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.

Type: Timestamp

Required: No

Response Syntax


{
   "Events": [ 
      { 
         "AccessKeyId": "string",
         "CloudTrailEvent": "string",
         "EventId": "string",
         "EventName": "string",
         "EventSource": "string",
         "EventTime": number,
         "ReadOnly": "string",
         "Resources": [ 
            { 
               "ResourceName": "string",
               "ResourceType": "string"
            }
         ],
         "Username": "string"
      }
   ],
   "NextToken": "string"
}

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

Events

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.

Type: Array of Event objects

NextToken

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.

Type: String

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

InvalidEventCategoryException

Occurs if an event category that is not valid is specified as a value of EventCategory.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidLookupAttributesException

Occurs when a lookup attribute is specified that is not valid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidMaxResultsException

This exception is thrown if the limit specified is not valid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidNextTokenException

A token that is not valid, or a token that was previously used in a request with different parameters. This exception is thrown if the token is not valid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidTimeRangeException

Occurs if the timestamp values are not valid. Either the start time occurs after the end time, or the time range is outside the range of possible values.

HTTP Status Code: 400

OperationNotPermittedException

This exception is thrown when the requested operation is not permitted.

HTTP Status Code: 400

UnsupportedOperationException

This exception is thrown when the requested operation is not supported.

HTTP Status Code: 400