Request Parameters Errors Examples See Also

SetInstanceHealth

Sets the health status of the specified instance.

For more information, see Set up a custom health check for your Auto Scaling group in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide.

Request Parameters

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

HealthStatus

The health status of the instance. Set to Healthy to have the instance remain in service. Set to Unhealthy to have the instance be out of service. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling terminates and replaces the unhealthy instance.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 32.

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

Required: Yes

InstanceId

The ID of the instance.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 19.

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

Required: Yes

ShouldRespectGracePeriod

If the Auto Scaling group of the specified instance has a HealthCheckGracePeriod specified for the group, by default, this call respects the grace period. Set this to False, to have the call not respect the grace period associated with the group.

For more information about the health check grace period, see Set the health check grace period for an Auto Scaling group in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide.

Type: Boolean

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 SetInstanceHealth.

Sample Request


https://autoscaling.amazonaws.com/?Action=SetInstanceHealth
&InstanceId=i-1234567890abcdef0
&HealthStatus=Unhealthy
&Version=2011-01-01
&AUTHPARAMS