EnableMetricsCollection
Enables group metrics for the specified Auto Scaling group. For more information, see Monitoring CloudWatch metrics for your Auto Scaling groups and instances in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide.
Request Parameters
For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.
- AutoScalingGroupName
-
The name of the Auto Scaling group.
Type: String
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1600.
Pattern:
[\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\r\n\t]*
Required: Yes
- Granularity
-
The granularity to associate with the metrics to collect. The only valid value is
1Minute
.Type: String
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 255.
Pattern:
[\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\r\n\t]*
Required: Yes
- Metrics.member.N
-
Specifies which group-level metrics to start collecting. You can specify one or more of the following metrics:
-
GroupMinSize
-
GroupMaxSize
-
GroupDesiredCapacity
-
GroupInServiceInstances
-
GroupPendingInstances
-
GroupStandbyInstances
-
GroupTerminatingInstances
-
GroupTotalInstances
The instance weighting feature supports the following additional metrics:
-
GroupInServiceCapacity
-
GroupPendingCapacity
-
GroupStandbyCapacity
-
GroupTerminatingCapacity
-
GroupTotalCapacity
If you omit this parameter, all metrics are enabled.
Type: Array of strings
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 255.
Pattern:
[\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\r\n\t]*
Required: No
-
Errors
For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.
- ResourceContention
-
You already have a pending update to an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling resource (for example, an Auto Scaling group, instance, or load balancer).
HTTP Status Code: 500
Examples
Example
This example illustrates one usage of EnableMetricsCollection.
Sample Request
https://autoscaling.amazonaws.com/?Action=EnableMetricsCollection
&AutoScalingGroupName=my-asg
&Granularity=1Minute
&Version=2011-01-01
&AUTHPARAMS
See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following: