Request Parameters Response Elements Errors Examples See Also

CreateTargetGroup

Creates a target group.

To register targets with the target group, use RegisterTargets. To update the health check settings for the target group, use ModifyTargetGroup. To monitor the health of targets in the target group, use DescribeTargetHealth.

To route traffic to the targets in a target group, specify the target group in an action using CreateListener or CreateRule.

To delete a target group, use DeleteTargetGroup.

For more information, see the following:

This operation is idempotent, which means that it completes at most one time. If you attempt to create multiple target groups with the same settings, each call succeeds.

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

HealthCheckEnabled

Indicates whether health checks are enabled. If the target type is lambda, health checks are disabled by default but can be enabled. If the target type is instance, ip, or alb, health checks are always enabled and can't be disabled.

Type: Boolean

Required: No

HealthCheckIntervalSeconds

The approximate amount of time, in seconds, between health checks of an individual target. The range is 5-300. If the target group protocol is TCP, TLS, UDP, TCP_UDP, HTTP or HTTPS, the default is 30 seconds. If the target group protocol is GENEVE, the default is 10 seconds. If the target type is lambda, the default is 35 seconds.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 5. Maximum value of 300.

Required: No

HealthCheckPath

[HTTP/HTTPS health checks] The destination for health checks on the targets.

[HTTP1 or HTTP2 protocol version] The ping path. The default is /.

[GRPC protocol version] The path of a custom health check method with the format /package.service/method. The default is /AWS.ALB/healthcheck.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1024.

Required: No

HealthCheckPort

The port the load balancer uses when performing health checks on targets. If the protocol is HTTP, HTTPS, TCP, TLS, UDP, or TCP_UDP, the default is traffic-port, which is the port on which each target receives traffic from the load balancer. If the protocol is GENEVE, the default is port 80.

Type: String

Required: No

HealthCheckProtocol

The protocol the load balancer uses when performing health checks on targets. For Application Load Balancers, the default is HTTP. For Network Load Balancers and Gateway Load Balancers, the default is TCP. The TCP protocol is not supported for health checks if the protocol of the target group is HTTP or HTTPS. The GENEVE, TLS, UDP, and TCP_UDP protocols are not supported for health checks.

Type: String

Valid Values: HTTP | HTTPS | TCP | TLS | UDP | TCP_UDP | GENEVE

Required: No

HealthCheckTimeoutSeconds

The amount of time, in seconds, during which no response from a target means a failed health check. The range is 2–120 seconds. For target groups with a protocol of HTTP, the default is 6 seconds. For target groups with a protocol of TCP, TLS or HTTPS, the default is 10 seconds. For target groups with a protocol of GENEVE, the default is 5 seconds. If the target type is lambda, the default is 30 seconds.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 2. Maximum value of 120.

Required: No

HealthyThresholdCount

The number of consecutive health check successes required before considering a target healthy. The range is 2-10. If the target group protocol is TCP, TCP_UDP, UDP, TLS, HTTP or HTTPS, the default is 5. For target groups with a protocol of GENEVE, the default is 5. If the target type is lambda, the default is 5.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 2. Maximum value of 10.

Required: No

IpAddressType

The IP address type. The default value is ipv4.

Type: String

Valid Values: ipv4 | ipv6

Required: No

Matcher

[HTTP/HTTPS health checks] The HTTP or gRPC codes to use when checking for a successful response from a target. For target groups with a protocol of TCP, TCP_UDP, UDP or TLS the range is 200-599. For target groups with a protocol of HTTP or HTTPS, the range is 200-499. For target groups with a protocol of GENEVE, the range is 200-399.

Type: Matcher object

Required: No

Name

The name of the target group.

This name must be unique per region per account, can have a maximum of 32 characters, must contain only alphanumeric characters or hyphens, and must not begin or end with a hyphen.

Type: String

Required: Yes

Port

The port on which the targets receive traffic. This port is used unless you specify a port override when registering the target. If the target is a Lambda function, this parameter does not apply. If the protocol is GENEVE, the supported port is 6081.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 1. Maximum value of 65535.

Required: No

Protocol

The protocol to use for routing traffic to the targets. For Application Load Balancers, the supported protocols are HTTP and HTTPS. For Network Load Balancers, the supported protocols are TCP, TLS, UDP, or TCP_UDP. For Gateway Load Balancers, the supported protocol is GENEVE. A TCP_UDP listener must be associated with a TCP_UDP target group. If the target is a Lambda function, this parameter does not apply.

Type: String

Valid Values: HTTP | HTTPS | TCP | TLS | UDP | TCP_UDP | GENEVE

Required: No

ProtocolVersion

[HTTP/HTTPS protocol] The protocol version. Specify GRPC to send requests to targets using gRPC. Specify HTTP2 to send requests to targets using HTTP/2. The default is HTTP1, which sends requests to targets using HTTP/1.1.

Type: String

Required: No

Tags.member.N

The tags to assign to the target group.

Type: Array of Tag objects

Array Members: Minimum number of 1 item.

Required: No

TargetType

The type of target that you must specify when registering targets with this target group. You can't specify targets for a target group using more than one target type.

instance - Register targets by instance ID. This is the default value.
ip - Register targets by IP address. You can specify IP addresses from the subnets of the virtual private cloud (VPC) for the target group, the RFC 1918 range (10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12, and 192.168.0.0/16), and the RFC 6598 range (100.64.0.0/10). You can't specify publicly routable IP addresses.
lambda - Register a single Lambda function as a target.
alb - Register a single Application Load Balancer as a target.

Type: String

Valid Values: instance | ip | lambda | alb

Required: No

UnhealthyThresholdCount

The number of consecutive health check failures required before considering a target unhealthy. The range is 2-10. If the target group protocol is TCP, TCP_UDP, UDP, TLS, HTTP or HTTPS, the default is 2. For target groups with a protocol of GENEVE, the default is 2. If the target type is lambda, the default is 5.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 2. Maximum value of 10.

Required: No

VpcId

The identifier of the virtual private cloud (VPC). If the target is a Lambda function, this parameter does not apply. Otherwise, this parameter is required.

Type: String

Required: No

Response Elements

The following element is returned by the service.

TargetGroups.member.N

Information about the target group.

Type: Array of TargetGroup objects

Errors

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

DuplicateTargetGroupName

A target group with the specified name already exists.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidConfigurationRequest

The requested configuration is not valid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

TooManyTags

You've reached the limit on the number of tags for this resource.

HTTP Status Code: 400

TooManyTargetGroups

You've reached the limit on the number of target groups for your AWS account.

HTTP Status Code: 400

Examples

Create a target group to route traffic to instances registered by instance ID

This example creates a target group for an Application Load Balancer that you can use to route traffic to instances using HTTP on port 80. You register the instances by instance ID. This target group uses the default health check settings.

Sample Request


https://elasticloadbalancing.amazonaws.com/?Action=CreateTargetGroup
&Name=my-targets
&Protocol=HTTP
&Port=80
&VpcId=vpc-3ac0fb5f
&TargetType=instance
&Version=2015-12-01
&AUTHPARAMS

Sample Response


<CreateTargetGroupResponse xmlns="http://elasticloadbalancing.amazonaws.com/doc/2015-12-01/">
  <CreateTargetGroupResult> 
    <TargetGroups> 
      <member> 
        <TargetGroupArn>arn:aws:elasticloadbalancing:us-west-2:123456789012:targetgroup/my-targets/73e2d6bc24d8a067</TargetGroupArn> 
        <HealthCheckTimeoutSeconds>5</HealthCheckTimeoutSeconds> 
        <HealthCheckPort>traffic-port</HealthCheckPort> 
        <Matcher>
          <HttpCode>200</HttpCode> 
        </Matcher> 
        <TargetGroupName>my-targets</TargetGroupName> 
        <HealthCheckProtocol>HTTP</HealthCheckProtocol> 
        <HealthCheckPath>/</HealthCheckPath> 
        <Protocol>HTTP</Protocol> 
        <Port>80</Port> 
        <VpcId>vpc-3ac0fb5f</VpcId> 
        <HealthyThresholdCount>5</HealthyThresholdCount> 
        <HealthCheckIntervalSeconds>30</HealthCheckIntervalSeconds> 
        <UnhealthyThresholdCount>2</UnhealthyThresholdCount> 
      </member> 
    </TargetGroups> 
  </CreateTargetGroupResult> 
  <ResponseMetadata> 
    <RequestId>b83fe90e-f2d5-11e5-b95d-3b2c1831fc26</RequestId> 
  </ResponseMetadata>
</CreateTargetGroupResponse>

Create a target group to route traffic to IP addresses

This example creates a target group for a Network Load Balancer that you can use to route traffic to IP addresses using TCP on port 80. This target group uses the default health check settings.

Sample Request


https://elasticloadbalancing.amazonaws.com/?Action=CreateTargetGroup
&Name=my-ip-targets
&Protocol=TCP
&Port=80
&VpcId=vpc-09e5e2c5ef7e38ae7
&TargetType=ip
&Version=2015-12-01
&AUTHPARAMS

Create a target group to route traffic to a Lambda function

This example creates a target group for an Application Load Balancer that you can use to route traffic to a Lambda function. This target group uses the default health check settings. For more information, see Lambda functions as targets in the Application Load Balancers Guide.

Sample Request


https://elasticloadbalancing.amazonaws.com/?Action=CreateTargetGroup
&Name=my-lambda-target
&TargetType=lambda
&Version=2015-12-01
&AUTHPARAMS

Create a target group for your Gateway Load Balancer

This example creates a target group for a Gateway Load Balancer. The protocol must be GENEVE and the port must be 6081.

Sample Request


https://elasticloadbalancing.amazonaws.com/?Action=CreateTargetGroup
&Name=my-appliance-targets
&Protocol=GENEVE
&Port=6081
&VpcId=vpc-09e5e2c5ef7e38ae7
&TargetType=ip
&Version=2015-12-01
&AUTHPARAMS