TargetTrackingMetricStat - Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

TargetTrackingMetricStat

This structure defines the CloudWatch metric to return, along with the statistic and unit.

TargetTrackingMetricStat is a property of the TargetTrackingMetricDataQuery object.

For more information about the CloudWatch terminology below, see Amazon CloudWatch concepts in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide.

Contents

Metric

The metric to use.

Type: Metric object

Required: Yes

Stat

The statistic to return. It can include any CloudWatch statistic or extended statistic. For a list of valid values, see the table in Statistics in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide.

The most commonly used metric for scaling is Average.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 100.

Pattern: [\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\r\n\t]*

Required: Yes

Unit

The unit to use for the returned data points. For a complete list of the units that CloudWatch supports, see the MetricDatum data type in the Amazon CloudWatch API Reference.

Type: String

Required: No

See Also

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