http://cloudtrail.{region}.amazonaws.com/#X-Amz-Target=com.amazonaws.cloudtrail.v20131101.CloudTrail_20131101.LookupEvents<p>Looks up <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awscloudtrail/latest/userguide/cloudtrail-concepts.html#cloudtrail-concepts-management-events">management events</a> or <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awscloudtrail/latest/userguide/cloudtrail-concepts.html#cloudtrail-concepts-insights-events">CloudTrail Insights events</a> that are captured by CloudTrail. You can look up events that occurred in a region within the last 90 days. Lookup supports the following attributes for management events:</p> <ul> <li> <p>Amazon Web Services access key</p> </li> <li> <p>Event ID</p> </li> <li> <p>Event name</p> </li> <li> <p>Event source</p> </li> <li> <p>Read only</p> </li> <li> <p>Resource name</p> </li> <li> <p>Resource type</p> </li> <li> <p>User name</p> </li> </ul> <p>Lookup supports the following attributes for Insights events:</p> <ul> <li> <p>Event ID</p> </li> <li> <p>Event name</p> </li> <li> <p>Event source</p> </li> </ul> <p>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.</p> <important> <p>The rate of lookup requests is limited to two per second, per account, per region. If this limit is exceeded, a throttling error occurs.</p> </important>
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{
"success": true,
"data": {
"id": "abc123",
"created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
}
}{
"success": false,
"error": {
"code": "VALIDATION_ERROR",
"message": "Invalid request parameters"
}
}1curl --request POST \2 --url 'http://cloudtrail.{region}.amazonaws.com/#X-Amz-Target=com.amazonaws.cloudtrail.v20131101.CloudTrail_20131101.LookupEvents' \3 --header 'accept: application/json' \4 --header 'content-type: application/json'1{2 "success": true,3 "data": {4 "id": "abc123",5 "created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"6 }7}http://cloudtrail.{region}.amazonaws.com/#X-Amz-Target=com.amazonaws.cloudtrail.v20131101.CloudTrail_20131101.LookupEvents<p>Looks up <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awscloudtrail/latest/userguide/cloudtrail-concepts.html#cloudtrail-concepts-management-events">management events</a> or <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awscloudtrail/latest/userguide/cloudtrail-concepts.html#cloudtrail-concepts-insights-events">CloudTrail Insights events</a> that are captured by CloudTrail. You can look up events that occurred in a region within the last 90 days. Lookup supports the following attributes for management events:</p> <ul> <li> <p>Amazon Web Services access key</p> </li> <li> <p>Event ID</p> </li> <li> <p>Event name</p> </li> <li> <p>Event source</p> </li> <li> <p>Read only</p> </li> <li> <p>Resource name</p> </li> <li> <p>Resource type</p> </li> <li> <p>User name</p> </li> </ul> <p>Lookup supports the following attributes for Insights events:</p> <ul> <li> <p>Event ID</p> </li> <li> <p>Event name</p> </li> <li> <p>Event source</p> </li> </ul> <p>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.</p> <important> <p>The rate of lookup requests is limited to two per second, per account, per region. If this limit is exceeded, a throttling error occurs.</p> </important>
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Pagination token
{
"success": true,
"data": {
"id": "abc123",
"created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
}
}{
"success": false,
"error": {
"code": "VALIDATION_ERROR",
"message": "Invalid request parameters"
}
}1curl --request POST \2 --url 'http://cloudtrail.{region}.amazonaws.com/#X-Amz-Target=com.amazonaws.cloudtrail.v20131101.CloudTrail_20131101.LookupEvents' \3 --header 'accept: application/json' \4 --header 'content-type: application/json'1{2 "success": true,3 "data": {4 "id": "abc123",5 "created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"6 }7}