AWS SDK Version 2 for .NET
API Reference

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.NET Framework 4.5
 
 
Gets statistics for the specified metric.

The maximum number of data points that can be queried is 50,850, whereas the maximum number of data points returned from a single GetMetricStatistics request is 1,440. If you make a request that generates more than 1,440 data points, Amazon CloudWatch returns an error. In such a case, you can alter the request by narrowing the specified time range or increasing the specified period. Alternatively, you can make multiple requests across adjacent time ranges. GetMetricStatistics does not return the data in chronological order.

Amazon CloudWatch aggregates data points based on the length of the period that you specify. For example, if you request statistics with a one-minute granularity, Amazon CloudWatch aggregates data points with time stamps that fall within the same one-minute period. In such a case, the data points queried can greatly outnumber the data points returned.

The following examples show various statistics allowed by the data point query maximum of 50,850 when you call GetMetricStatistics on Amazon EC2 instances with detailed (one-minute) monitoring enabled:

For information about the namespace, metric names, and dimensions that other Amazon Web Services products use to send metrics to CloudWatch, go to Amazon CloudWatch Metrics, Namespaces, and Dimensions Reference in the Amazon CloudWatch Developer Guide.

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

Syntax

C# 
public abstract GetMetricStatisticsResponse GetMetricStatistics(
         GetMetricStatisticsRequest request
)

Parameters

request
Type: Amazon.CloudWatch.Model.GetMetricStatisticsRequest

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

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

Exceptions

ExceptionCondition
InternalServiceException Indicates that the request processing has failed due to some unknown error, exception, or failure.
InvalidParameterCombinationException Parameters that must not be used together were used together.
InvalidParameterValueException Bad or out-of-range value was supplied for the input parameter.
MissingRequiredParameterException An input parameter that is mandatory for processing the request is not supplied.

Examples

This example shows how to get statistics for a metric.

Get metric statistics example

var client = new AmazonCloudWatchClient();

var dimension = new Dimension
{
  Name = "InstanceType",
  Value = "t1.micro"
};

var request = new GetMetricStatisticsRequest
{
  Dimensions = new List<Dimension>() { dimension },
  EndTime = DateTime.Today,
  MetricName = "CPUUtilization",
  Namespace = "AWS/EC2",
  // Get statistics by day.
  Period = (int)TimeSpan.FromDays(1).TotalSeconds,
  // Get statistics for the past month.
  StartTime = DateTime.Today.Subtract(TimeSpan.FromDays(30)),
  Statistics = new List<string>() { "Minimum" },
  Unit = StandardUnit.Percent
};

var response = client.GetMetricStatistics(request);

if (response.Datapoints.Count > 0)
{
  foreach (var point in response.Datapoints)
  {
    Console.WriteLine(point.Timestamp.ToShortDateString() +
      " " + point.Minimum + "%");
  }
}

Version Information

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