This page lists the IAM roles and permissions for Cloud IoT. To
search through all roles and permissions, see the role and
permission index.
Cloud IoT roles
Role
Permissions
Cloud IoT Core Service Agent
(roles/cloudiot.serviceAgent)
Grants the ability to manage Cloud IoT Core resources, including publishing data to Cloud Pub/Sub and writing device activity logs to Stackdriver. Warning: If this role is removed from the Cloud IoT service account, Cloud IoT Core will be unable to publish data or write device activity logs.
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