To get information about an audit instance

The following describe-audit-task example gets information about an instance of an AWS IoT Device Defender audit. If the audit is complete, summary statistics for the run are included in the results.

aws iot describe-audit-task \
    --task-id a3aea009955e501a31b764abe1bebd3d

Output:

 {
    "taskStatus": "COMPLETED",
    "taskType": "ON_DEMAND_AUDIT_TASK",
    "taskStartTime": 1560356923.434,
    "taskStatistics": {
        "totalChecks": 3,
        "inProgressChecks": 0,
        "waitingForDataCollectionChecks": 0,
        "compliantChecks": 3,
        "nonCompliantChecks": 0,
        "failedChecks": 0,
        "canceledChecks": 0
    },
    "auditDetails": {
        "CA_CERTIFICATE_EXPIRING_CHECK": {
            "checkRunStatus": "COMPLETED_COMPLIANT",
            "checkCompliant": true,
            "totalResourcesCount": 0,
            "nonCompliantResourcesCount": 0
        },
        "DEVICE_CERTIFICATE_EXPIRING_CHECK": {
            "checkRunStatus": "COMPLETED_COMPLIANT",
            "checkCompliant": true,
            "totalResourcesCount": 6,
            "nonCompliantResourcesCount": 0
        },
        "REVOKED_CA_CERTIFICATE_STILL_ACTIVE_CHECK": {
            "checkRunStatus": "COMPLETED_COMPLIANT",
            "checkCompliant": true,
            "totalResourcesCount": 0,
            "nonCompliantResourcesCount": 0
        }
    }
}

For more information, see Audit Commands in the AWS IoT Developer Guide.