
AWS IoT Core now provides two new CloudWatch Log event types—Ping logs for tracking MQTT Keep-alive messages and Connection.AuthNError logs for diagnosing authentication failures—to help troubleshoot device connectivity and authentication issues.


<div><p>This article announces two new Amazon CloudWatch Log event types for AWS IoT Core to help troubleshoot device connectivity and authentication issues.</p><ul><li>Ping log event type tracks MQTT Keep-alive messages and identifies connection failures</li><li>Connection.AuthNError log event type records rejected authentication attempts with detailed error codes</li><li>Enables faster resolution of credential and certificate issues across IoT fleets</li><li>Available in all AWS Regions where AWS IoT Core is available</li><li>Configure through AWS IoT Core event-level logging settings with CloudWatch log group destination</li></ul><p>These new logging capabilities improve troubleshooting efficiency for IoT device connectivity and authentication problems.</p></div>


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