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title: Getting Started with Datadog
description: Datadog, the leading service for cloud-scale monitoring.
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# aws_iot_thing{% #aws_iot_thing %}

## `account_id`{% #account_id %}

**Type**: `STRING`

## `attributes`{% #attributes %}

**Type**: `MAP_STRING_STRING`**Provider name**: `attributes`**Description**: The thing attributes.

## `billing_group_name`{% #billing_group_name %}

**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `billingGroupName`**Description**: The name of the billing group the thing belongs to.

## `default_client_id`{% #default_client_id %}

**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `defaultClientId`**Description**: The default MQTT client ID. For a typical device, the thing name is also used as the default MQTT client ID. Although we don't require a mapping between a thing's registry name and its use of MQTT client IDs, certificates, or shadow state, we recommend that you choose a thing name and use it as the MQTT client ID for the registry and the Device Shadow service. This lets you better organize your IoT fleet without removing the flexibility of the underlying device certificate model or shadows.

## `tags`{% #tags %}

**Type**: `UNORDERED_LIST_STRING`

## `thing_arn`{% #thing_arn %}

**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `thingArn`**Description**: The ARN of the thing to describe.

## `thing_id`{% #thing_id %}

**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `thingId`**Description**: The ID of the thing to describe.

## `thing_name`{% #thing_name %}

**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `thingName`**Description**: The name of the thing.

## `thing_type_name`{% #thing_type_name %}

**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `thingTypeName`**Description**: The thing type name.

## `version`{% #version %}

**Type**: `INT64`**Provider name**: `version`**Description**: The current version of the thing record in the registry.To avoid unintentional changes to the information in the registry, you can pass the version information in the `expectedVersion` parameter of the `UpdateThing` and `DeleteThing` calls.