AWS SDK Version 2 for .NET
API Reference

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.NET Framework 3.5
 
 
Retrieves all alarms for a single metric. Specify a statistic, period, or unit to filter the set of alarms further.

Namespace: Amazon.CloudWatch
Assembly: AWSSDK.dll
Version: (assembly version)

Syntax

C# 
public abstract DescribeAlarmsForMetricResponse DescribeAlarmsForMetric(
         DescribeAlarmsForMetricRequest request
)

Parameters

request
Type: Amazon.CloudWatch.Model.DescribeAlarmsForMetricRequest

Container for the necessary parameters to execute the DescribeAlarmsForMetric service method.

Return Value
Type: Amazon.CloudWatch.Model.DescribeAlarmsForMetricResponse
The response from the DescribeAlarmsForMetric service method, as returned by CloudWatch.

Examples

This example shows how to get information about all alarms for a metric.

Get metric alarms example

var client = new AmazonCloudWatchClient();

var dimension = new Dimension
{
  Name = "AutoScalingGroupName",
  Value = "awseb-e-kkbEXAMPLE-stack-AutoScalingGroup-F4TAUEXAMPLE"
};

var request = new DescribeAlarmsForMetricRequest
{
  Dimensions = new List<Dimension>() { dimension },
  MetricName = "NetworkOut",
  Namespace = "AWS/EC2"
};

var response = client.DescribeAlarmsForMetric(request);

if (response.MetricAlarms.Count > 0)
{
  foreach (var alarm in response.MetricAlarms)
  {
    Console.WriteLine();
    Console.WriteLine(alarm.AlarmName);
    Console.WriteLine(alarm.AlarmDescription);
    Console.WriteLine(alarm.MetricName + " " +
      alarm.ComparisonOperator + " " + alarm.Threshold);
  }
}
else
{
  Console.WriteLine("No alarms.");
}

Version Information

.NET Framework:
Supported in: 4.5, 4.0, 3.5