Request Syntax URI Request Parameters Request Body Response Syntax Response Elements Errors See Also

CreateGroup

Creates a group which you can use to associate canaries with each other, including cross-Region canaries. Using groups can help you with managing and automating your canaries, and you can also view aggregated run results and statistics for all canaries in a group.

Groups are global resources. When you create a group, it is replicated across AWS Regions, and you can view it and add canaries to it from any Region. Although the group ARN format reflects the Region name where it was created, a group is not constrained to any Region. This means that you can put canaries from multiple Regions into the same group, and then use that group to view and manage all of those canaries in a single view.

Groups are supported in all Regions except the Regions that are disabled by default. For more information about these Regions, see Enabling a Region.

Each group can contain as many as 10 canaries. You can have as many as 20 groups in your account. Any single canary can be a member of up to 10 groups.

Request Syntax


POST /group HTTP/1.1
Content-type: application/json

{
   "Name": "string",
   "Tags": { 
      "string" : "string" 
   }
}

URI Request Parameters

The request does not use any URI parameters.

Request Body

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

Name

The name for the group. It can include any Unicode characters.

The names for all groups in your account, across all Regions, must be unique.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 64.

Required: Yes

Tags

A list of key-value pairs to associate with the group. You can associate as many as 50 tags with a group.

Tags can help you organize and categorize your resources. You can also use them to scope user permissions, by granting a user permission to access or change only the resources that have certain tag values.

Type: String to string map

Map Entries: Maximum number of 50 items.

Key Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.

Key Pattern: ^(?!aws:)[a-zA-Z+-=._:/]+$

Value Length Constraints: Maximum length of 256.

Required: No

Response Syntax


HTTP/1.1 200
Content-type: application/json

{
   "Group": { 
      "Arn": "string",
      "CreatedTime": number,
      "Id": "string",
      "LastModifiedTime": number,
      "Name": "string",
      "Tags": { 
         "string" : "string" 
      }
   }
}

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

Group

A structure that contains information about the group that was just created.

Type: Group object

Errors

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

ConflictException

A conflicting operation is already in progress.

HTTP Status Code: 409

InternalServerException

An unknown internal error occurred.

HTTP Status Code: 500

ServiceQuotaExceededException

The request exceeded a service quota value.

HTTP Status Code: 402

ValidationException

A parameter could not be validated.

HTTP Status Code: 400