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Use GetComplianceDetailsByConfigRule with a CLI

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Use GetComplianceDetailsByConfigRule with a CLI - AWS Config

The following code examples show how to use GetComplianceDetailsByConfigRule.

CLI
AWS CLI

To get the evaluation results for an AWS Config rule

The following command returns the evaluation results for all of the resources that don't comply with an AWS Config rule named InstanceTypesAreT2micro:

aws configservice get-compliance-details-by-config-rule --config-rule-name InstanceTypesAreT2micro --compliance-types NON_COMPLIANT

Output:

{ "EvaluationResults": [ { "EvaluationResultIdentifier": { "OrderingTimestamp": 1450314635.065, "EvaluationResultQualifier": { "ResourceType": "AWS::EC2::Instance", "ResourceId": "i-1a2b3c4d", "ConfigRuleName": "InstanceTypesAreT2micro" } }, "ResultRecordedTime": 1450314645.261, "ConfigRuleInvokedTime": 1450314642.948, "ComplianceType": "NON_COMPLIANT" }, { "EvaluationResultIdentifier": { "OrderingTimestamp": 1450314635.065, "EvaluationResultQualifier": { "ResourceType": "AWS::EC2::Instance", "ResourceId": "i-2a2b3c4d", "ConfigRuleName": "InstanceTypesAreT2micro" } }, "ResultRecordedTime": 1450314645.18, "ConfigRuleInvokedTime": 1450314642.902, "ComplianceType": "NON_COMPLIANT" }, { "EvaluationResultIdentifier": { "OrderingTimestamp": 1450314635.065, "EvaluationResultQualifier": { "ResourceType": "AWS::EC2::Instance", "ResourceId": "i-3a2b3c4d", "ConfigRuleName": "InstanceTypesAreT2micro" } }, "ResultRecordedTime": 1450314643.346, "ConfigRuleInvokedTime": 1450314643.124, "ComplianceType": "NON_COMPLIANT" } ] }
PowerShell
Tools for PowerShell

Example 1: This example obtains the evaluation results for the rule access-keys-rotated and returns the output grouped by compliance-type

Get-CFGComplianceDetailsByConfigRule -ConfigRuleName access-keys-rotated | Group-Object ComplianceType

Output:

Count Name Group ----- ---- ----- 2 COMPLIANT {Amazon.ConfigService.Model.EvaluationResult, Amazon.ConfigService.Model.EvaluationResult} 5 NON_COMPLIANT {Amazon.ConfigService.Model.EvaluationResult, Amazon.ConfigService.Model.EvaluationResult, Amazon.ConfigService.Model.EvaluationRes...

Example 2: This example queries compliance details for the rule access-keys-rotated for COMPLIANT resources.

Get-CFGComplianceDetailsByConfigRule -ConfigRuleName access-keys-rotated -ComplianceType COMPLIANT | ForEach-Object {$_.EvaluationResultIdentifier.EvaluationResultQualifier}

Output:

ConfigRuleName ResourceId ResourceType -------------- ---------- ------------ access-keys-rotated BCAB1CDJ2LITAPVEW3JAH AWS::IAM::User access-keys-rotated BCAB1CDJ2LITL3EHREM4Q AWS::IAM::User
AWS CLI

To get the evaluation results for an AWS Config rule

The following command returns the evaluation results for all of the resources that don't comply with an AWS Config rule named InstanceTypesAreT2micro:

aws configservice get-compliance-details-by-config-rule --config-rule-name InstanceTypesAreT2micro --compliance-types NON_COMPLIANT

Output:

{ "EvaluationResults": [ { "EvaluationResultIdentifier": { "OrderingTimestamp": 1450314635.065, "EvaluationResultQualifier": { "ResourceType": "AWS::EC2::Instance", "ResourceId": "i-1a2b3c4d", "ConfigRuleName": "InstanceTypesAreT2micro" } }, "ResultRecordedTime": 1450314645.261, "ConfigRuleInvokedTime": 1450314642.948, "ComplianceType": "NON_COMPLIANT" }, { "EvaluationResultIdentifier": { "OrderingTimestamp": 1450314635.065, "EvaluationResultQualifier": { "ResourceType": "AWS::EC2::Instance", "ResourceId": "i-2a2b3c4d", "ConfigRuleName": "InstanceTypesAreT2micro" } }, "ResultRecordedTime": 1450314645.18, "ConfigRuleInvokedTime": 1450314642.902, "ComplianceType": "NON_COMPLIANT" }, { "EvaluationResultIdentifier": { "OrderingTimestamp": 1450314635.065, "EvaluationResultQualifier": { "ResourceType": "AWS::EC2::Instance", "ResourceId": "i-3a2b3c4d", "ConfigRuleName": "InstanceTypesAreT2micro" } }, "ResultRecordedTime": 1450314643.346, "ConfigRuleInvokedTime": 1450314643.124, "ComplianceType": "NON_COMPLIANT" } ] }

For a complete list of AWS SDK developer guides and code examples, see Using AWS Config with an AWS SDK. This topic also includes information about getting started and details about previous SDK versions.

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