DescribeEvents - Amazon ElastiCache

DescribeEvents

Returns events related to clusters, cache security groups, and cache parameter groups. You can obtain events specific to a particular cluster, cache security group, or cache parameter group by providing the name as a parameter.

By default, only the events occurring within the last hour are returned; however, you can retrieve up to 14 days' worth of events if necessary.

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

Duration

The number of minutes worth of events to retrieve.

Type: Integer

Required: No

EndTime

The end of the time interval for which to retrieve events, specified in ISO 8601 format.

Example: 2017-03-30T07:03:49.555Z

Type: Timestamp

Required: No

Marker

An optional marker returned from a prior request. Use this marker for pagination of results from this operation. If this parameter is specified, the response includes only records beyond the marker, up to the value specified by MaxRecords.

Type: String

Required: No

MaxRecords

The maximum number of records to include in the response. If more records exist than the specified MaxRecords value, a marker is included in the response so that the remaining results can be retrieved.

Default: 100

Constraints: minimum 20; maximum 100.

Type: Integer

Required: No

SourceIdentifier

The identifier of the event source for which events are returned. If not specified, all sources are included in the response.

Type: String

Required: No

SourceType

The event source to retrieve events for. If no value is specified, all events are returned.

Type: String

Valid Values: cache-cluster | cache-parameter-group | cache-security-group | cache-subnet-group | replication-group | serverless-cache | serverless-cache-snapshot | user | user-group

Required: No

StartTime

The beginning of the time interval to retrieve events for, specified in ISO 8601 format.

Example: 2017-03-30T07:03:49.555Z

Type: Timestamp

Required: No

Response Elements

The following elements are returned by the service.

Events.Event.N

A list of events. Each element in the list contains detailed information about one event.

Type: Array of Event objects

Marker

Provides an identifier to allow retrieval of paginated results.

Type: String

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

InvalidParameterCombination

Two or more incompatible parameters were specified.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidParameterValue

The value for a parameter is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

Examples

DescribeEvents

Some of the output has been omitted for brevity.

Sample Request

https://elasticache.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ ?Action=DescribeEvents &MaxRecords=100 &Version=2015-02-02 &SignatureVersion=4 &SignatureMethod=HmacSHA256 &Timestamp=20150202T192317Z &X-Amz-Credential=<credential>

Sample Response

<DescribeEventsResponse xmlns="http://elasticache.amazonaws.com/doc/2015-02-02/"> <DescribeEventsResult> <Events> <Event> <Message>Cache cluster created</Message> <SourceType>cache-cluster</SourceType> <Date>2015-02-02T18:22:18.202Z</Date> <SourceIdentifier>my-redis-primary</SourceIdentifier> </Event> (...output omitted...) </Events> </DescribeEventsResult> <ResponseMetadata> <RequestId>e21c81b4-b9cd-11e3-8a16-7978bb24ffdf</RequestId> </ResponseMetadata> </DescribeEventsResponse>

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following: