Euca2ools Guide / CloudWatch-Compatible Commands |
Returns information about the specified alarm(s).
euwatch-describe-alarms [AlarmNames [AlarmNames ...] ] [--action-prefix value ] [--alarm-name-prefix value ] [--state-value value ]
Option | Description | Required |
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AlarmNames | Names of the alarms. You can also set this value using --alarm-name. | No |
--action-prefix value | Prefix of action names. | No |
--alarm-name-prefix value | Prefix of alarm names. | No |
--state-value value | State of Alarm.
Valid values: OK | ALARM | INSUFFICIENT_DATA |
No |
Option | Description |
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--show-empty-fields | Show empty fields using (nil) as a placeholder to indicate that this data was not requested. Empty fields are not shown by default. |
--region value | Specify region value as the cloud region to use. You can set this by using the environment variable EC2_REGION. |
-U,--url value | Overrides the URL for the service call with the value entered. You can set this by using the environment variable AWS_CLOUDWATCH_URL. |
-I, --access-key-id value | User's access key ID |
-S, --secret-key value | User's AWS secret Key to use. |
--debug | Prints what the command sends to the server and what it receives from the server. Use when you're trying to debug Euca2ools. |
--debugger | Enable interactive debugger on error. |
--version | Display the version of this tool. |
-h,--help | Display the manual page for the command. |
This command returns a table that contains the following information:
The following example describes all of your alarms whose name starts with my-alm.
euwatch-describe-alarms --alarm-name-prefix my-alm --headers
The following is an example of output for this command.
ALARM STATE ALARM_ACTIONS NAMESPACE METRIC_NAME PERIOD STATISTIC EVAL_PERIODS COMPARISON THRESHOLD my-alm1 OK arn:aws:autoscaling:.. AWS/EC2 CPUUtilization 60 Average 3 GreaterThanThreshold 100.0 my-alm2 OK arn:aws:autoscaling:.. AWS/EC2 CPUUtilization 60 Average 5 GreaterThanThreshold 80.0