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title: Getting Started with Datadog
description: Datadog, the leading service for cloud-scale monitoring.
breadcrumbs: Docs > Infrastructure > Datadog Resource Catalog
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# aws_iot_thingtype{% #aws_iot_thingtype %}

## `account_id`{% #account_id %}

**Type**: `STRING`

## `tags`{% #tags %}

**Type**: `UNORDERED_LIST_STRING`

## `thing_type_arn`{% #thing_type_arn %}

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

## `thing_type_id`{% #thing_type_id %}

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

## `thing_type_metadata`{% #thing_type_metadata %}

**Type**: `STRUCT`**Provider name**: `thingTypeMetadata`**Description**: The ThingTypeMetadata contains additional information about the thing type including: creation date and time, a value indicating whether the thing type is deprecated, and a date and time when it was deprecated.

- `creation_date`**Type**: `TIMESTAMP`**Provider name**: `creationDate`**Description**: The date and time when the thing type was created.
- `deprecated`**Type**: `BOOLEAN`**Provider name**: `deprecated`**Description**: Whether the thing type is deprecated. If true, no new things could be associated with this type.
- `deprecation_date`**Type**: `TIMESTAMP`**Provider name**: `deprecationDate`**Description**: The date and time when the thing type was deprecated.

## `thing_type_name`{% #thing_type_name %}

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

## `thing_type_properties`{% #thing_type_properties %}

**Type**: `STRUCT`**Provider name**: `thingTypeProperties`**Description**: The ThingTypeProperties contains information about the thing type including description, a list of searchable thing attribute names, and MQTT5 configuration.

- `mqtt5_configuration`**Type**: `STRUCT`**Provider name**: `mqtt5Configuration`**Description**: The configuration to add user-defined properties to enrich MQTT 5 messages.
  - `propagating_attributes`**Type**: `UNORDERED_LIST_STRUCT`**Provider name**: `propagatingAttributes`**Description**: An object that represents the propagating thing attributes and the connection attributes.
    - `connection_attribute`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `connectionAttribute`**Description**: The attribute associated with the connection between a device and Amazon Web Services IoT Core.
    - `thing_attribute`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `thingAttribute`**Description**: The user-defined thing attribute that is propagating for MQTT 5 message enrichment.
    - `user_property_key`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `userPropertyKey`**Description**: The key of the user property key-value pair.
- `searchable_attributes`**Type**: `UNORDERED_LIST_STRING`**Provider name**: `searchableAttributes`**Description**: A list of searchable thing attribute names.
- `thing_type_description`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `thingTypeDescription`**Description**: The description of the thing type.