euwatch-describe-alarms-for-metric

Provides information about alarms associated with a specified metric.

Syntax

euwatch-describe-alarms-for-metric --metric-name  value  --namespace  value 
 [--dimensions  "key1=value1,key2=value2..." ] 
 [--period  value ] [--statistic  value ] [--unit  value ]

Options

Option Description Required
--dimensions "key1=value1,key2=value2..." Dimensions of the metric on which to alarm. No
--metric-name value The name of the metric on which to alarm. Yes
--namespace value Namespace of the metric on which to alarm. Yes
--period value Period of metric on which to alarm. No
--statistic value The statistic of the metric on which to alarm.

Valid values: SampleCount | Average | Sum | Minimum | Maximum

No
--unit value The unit of the metric on which to alarm. No
   

Common Options

Option Description
--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.

Output

This command returns a table that contains the following information:

Example

The following example describes an alarm for the metric, CPUUtilization, for

euwatch-describe-alarms-for-metric --metric-name CPUUtilization --namespace AWS/EC2  --dimensions InstanceId=i-abcdef 

The following is example output for the 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
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