DescribeInstancesHealth - AWS Elastic Beanstalk

DescribeInstancesHealth

Retrieves detailed information about the health of instances in your AWS Elastic Beanstalk. This operation requires enhanced health reporting.

Request Parameters

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

AttributeNames.member.N

Specifies the response elements you wish to receive. To retrieve all attributes, set to All. If no attribute names are specified, returns a list of instances.

Type: Array of strings

Valid Values: HealthStatus | Color | Causes | ApplicationMetrics | RefreshedAt | LaunchedAt | System | Deployment | AvailabilityZone | InstanceType | All

Required: No

EnvironmentId

Specify the AWS Elastic Beanstalk environment by ID.

Type: String

Required: No

EnvironmentName

Specify the AWS Elastic Beanstalk environment by name.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 4. Maximum length of 40.

Required: No

NextToken

Specify the pagination token returned by a previous call.

Type: String

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

Required: No

Response Elements

The following elements are returned by the service.

InstanceHealthList.member.N

Detailed health information about each instance.

The output differs slightly between Linux and Windows environments. There is a difference in the members that are supported under the <CPUUtilization> type.

Type: Array of SingleInstanceHealth objects

NextToken

Pagination token for the next page of results, if available.

Type: String

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

RefreshedAt

The date and time that the health information was retrieved.

Type: Timestamp

Errors

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

ElasticBeanstalkService

A generic service exception has occurred.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidRequest

One or more input parameters is not valid. Please correct the input parameters and try the operation again.

HTTP Status Code: 400

Examples

Request a single instance health attribute

This example illustrates one usage of DescribeInstancesHealth.

DescribeInstancesHealth {"EnvironmentName":"test-1","AttributeNames":["HealthStatus"]} <DescribeInstancesHealthResponse xmlns='http://elasticbeanstalk.amazonaws.com/docs/2010-12-01/'> <DescribeInstancesHealthResult> <InstanceHealthList> <member> <HealthStatus>Degraded</HealthStatus> <InstanceId>i-dc6ee922</InstanceId> </member> </InstanceHealthList> </DescribeInstancesHealthResult> <ResponseMetadata> <RequestId>94808e26-3a47-11e5-94eb-3d0f44fb8967</RequestId> </ResponseMetadata> </DescribeInstancesHealthResponse>

Request all instance health attributes for a Linux environment

This example shows the output for a Linux environment.

DescribeInstancesHealth {"EnvironmentName":"test-1","AttributeNames":["All"]} <DescribeInstancesHealthResponse xmlns='http://elasticbeanstalk.amazonaws.com/docs/2010-12-01/'> <DescribeInstancesHealthResult> <InstanceHealthList> <member> <HealthStatus>Degraded</HealthStatus> <System> <CPUUtilization> <Idle>6.9</Idle> <System>46.2</System> <Privileged>null</Privileged> <SoftIRQ>0.6</SoftIRQ> <Nice>0.0</Nice> <IOWait>0.1</IOWait> <User>46.2</User> <IRQ>0.0</IRQ> </CPUUtilization> <LoadAverage> <member>3.81</member> <member>2.11</member> <member>0.93</member> </LoadAverage> </System> <LaunchedAt>2015-07-17T07:58:58Z</LaunchedAt> <Color>Red</Color> <InstanceId>i-dc6ee922</InstanceId> <ApplicationMetrics> <Duration>10</Duration> <StatusCodes> <Status5xx>843</Status5xx> <Status4xx>0</Status4xx> <Status3xx>0</Status3xx> <Status2xx>3391</Status2xx> </StatusCodes> <Latency> <P90>0.002</P90> <P999>1.367</P999> <P99>0.003</P99> <P85>0.002</P85> <P50>0.001</P50> <P75>0.001</P75> <P95>0.002</P95> <P10>0.0</P10> </Latency> <RequestCount>4234</RequestCount> </ApplicationMetrics> <Causes> <member>19.9 % of the requests are failing with HTTP 5xx.</member> <member>93 % of CPU is in use.</member> </Causes> </member> </InstanceHealthList> <RefreshedAt>2015-08-04T01:24:34Z</RefreshedAt> </DescribeInstancesHealthResult> <ResponseMetadata> <RequestId>94a07242-3a47-11e5-91c3-1f9989a744d4</RequestId> </ResponseMetadata> </DescribeInstancesHealthResponse>

Request all instance health attributes for a Windows environment

In a Windows environment, there are different supported members in the <CPUUtilization> type:

... <CPUUtilization> <Idle>9.6</Idle> <System>null</System> <Privileged>45.2</Privileged> <SoftIRQ>null</SoftIRQ> <Nice>null</Nice> <IOWait>null</IOWait> <User>45.2</User> <IRQ>null</IRQ> </CPUUtilization> ...

See Also

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