DescribeEventCategories
Displays a list of categories for all event source types, or, if specified, for a specified source type. You can see a list of the event categories and source types in the Events topic in the Amazon RDS User Guide.
Request Parameters
For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.
- Filters.Filter.N
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This parameter is not currently supported.
Type: Array of Filter objects
Required: No
- SourceType
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The type of source that is generating the events.
Valid values: db-instance | db-parameter-group | db-security-group | db-snapshot
Type: String
Required: No
Response Elements
The following element is returned by the service.
- EventCategoriesMapList.EventCategoriesMap.N
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A list of EventCategoriesMap data types.
Type: Array of EventCategoriesMap objects
Errors
For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.
Example
Sample Request
https://rds.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ ?Action=DescribeEventCategories &SignatureMethod=HmacSHA256 &SignatureVersion=4 &Version=2014-09-01 &X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 &X-Amz-Credential=AKIADQKE4SARGYLE/20140421/us-west-2/rds/aws4_request &X-Amz-Date=20140421T194732Z &X-Amz-SignedHeaders=content-type;host;user-agent;x-amz-content-sha256;x-amz-date &X-Amz-Signature=6e25c542bf96fe24b28c12976ec92d2f856ab1d2a158e21c35441a736e4fde2b
Sample Response
<DescribeEventCategoriesResponse xmlns="http://rds.amazonaws.com/doc/2014-09-01/"> <DescribeEventCategoriesResult> <EventCategoriesMapList> <EventCategoriesMap> <SourceType>db-instance</SourceType> <EventCategories> <EventCategory>backup</EventCategory> <EventCategory>recovery</EventCategory> <EventCategory>restoration</EventCategory> <EventCategory>failover</EventCategory> <EventCategory>low storage</EventCategory> <EventCategory>maintenance</EventCategory> <EventCategory>deletion</EventCategory> <EventCategory>availability</EventCategory> <EventCategory>configuration change</EventCategory> <EventCategory>notification</EventCategory> <EventCategory>failure</EventCategory> <EventCategory>creation</EventCategory> </EventCategories> </EventCategoriesMap> <EventCategoriesMap> <SourceType>db-security-group</SourceType> <EventCategories> <EventCategory>configuration change</EventCategory> <EventCategory>failure</EventCategory> </EventCategories> </EventCategoriesMap> <EventCategoriesMap> <SourceType>db-parameter-group</SourceType> <EventCategories> <EventCategory>configuration change</EventCategory> </EventCategories> </EventCategoriesMap> <EventCategoriesMap> <SourceType>db-snapshot</SourceType> <EventCategories> <EventCategory>deletion</EventCategory> <EventCategory>restoration</EventCategory> <EventCategory>notification</EventCategory> <EventCategory>failure</EventCategory> <EventCategory>creation</EventCategory> </EventCategories> </EventCategoriesMap> </EventCategoriesMap> </DescribeEventCategoriesResult> <ResponseMetadata> <RequestId>b79456f2-b98c-11d3-f272-7cd6cce12cc5</RequestId> </ResponseMetadata> </DescribeEventCategoriesResponse>
See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following: