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: