After careful consideration, we have decided to discontinue Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for SQL applications in two steps:
1. From October 15, 2025, you will not be able to create new Kinesis Data Analytics for SQL applications.
2. We will delete your applications starting January 27, 2026. You will not be able to start or operate your Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for SQL applications. Support will no longer be available for Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for SQL from that time. For more information, see Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for SQL Applications discontinuation.
DescribeApplication
Note
This documentation is for version 1 of the Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics API, which only supports SQL applications. Version 2 of the API supports SQL and Java applications. For more information about version 2, see Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics API V2 Documentation.
Returns information about a specific Amazon Kinesis Analytics application.
If you want to retrieve a list of all applications in your account, use the ListApplications operation.
This operation requires permissions to perform the
kinesisanalytics:DescribeApplication action. You can use
DescribeApplication to get the current application versionId, which you
need to call other operations such as Update.
Request Syntax
{
"ApplicationName": "string"
}Request Parameters
The request accepts the following data in JSON format.
- ApplicationName
-
Name of the application.
Type: String
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.
Pattern:
[a-zA-Z0-9_.-]+Required: Yes
Response Syntax
{
"ApplicationDetail": {
"ApplicationARN": "string",
"ApplicationCode": "string",
"ApplicationDescription": "string",
"ApplicationName": "string",
"ApplicationStatus": "string",
"ApplicationVersionId": number,
"CloudWatchLoggingOptionDescriptions": [
{
"CloudWatchLoggingOptionId": "string",
"LogStreamARN": "string",
"RoleARN": "string"
}
],
"CreateTimestamp": number,
"InputDescriptions": [
{
"InAppStreamNames": [ "string" ],
"InputId": "string",
"InputParallelism": {
"Count": number
},
"InputProcessingConfigurationDescription": {
"InputLambdaProcessorDescription": {
"ResourceARN": "string",
"RoleARN": "string"
}
},
"InputSchema": {
"RecordColumns": [
{
"Mapping": "string",
"Name": "string",
"SqlType": "string"
}
],
"RecordEncoding": "string",
"RecordFormat": {
"MappingParameters": {
"CSVMappingParameters": {
"RecordColumnDelimiter": "string",
"RecordRowDelimiter": "string"
},
"JSONMappingParameters": {
"RecordRowPath": "string"
}
},
"RecordFormatType": "string"
}
},
"InputStartingPositionConfiguration": {
"InputStartingPosition": "string"
},
"KinesisFirehoseInputDescription": {
"ResourceARN": "string",
"RoleARN": "string"
},
"KinesisStreamsInputDescription": {
"ResourceARN": "string",
"RoleARN": "string"
},
"NamePrefix": "string"
}
],
"LastUpdateTimestamp": number,
"OutputDescriptions": [
{
"DestinationSchema": {
"RecordFormatType": "string"
},
"KinesisFirehoseOutputDescription": {
"ResourceARN": "string",
"RoleARN": "string"
},
"KinesisStreamsOutputDescription": {
"ResourceARN": "string",
"RoleARN": "string"
},
"LambdaOutputDescription": {
"ResourceARN": "string",
"RoleARN": "string"
},
"Name": "string",
"OutputId": "string"
}
],
"ReferenceDataSourceDescriptions": [
{
"ReferenceId": "string",
"ReferenceSchema": {
"RecordColumns": [
{
"Mapping": "string",
"Name": "string",
"SqlType": "string"
}
],
"RecordEncoding": "string",
"RecordFormat": {
"MappingParameters": {
"CSVMappingParameters": {
"RecordColumnDelimiter": "string",
"RecordRowDelimiter": "string"
},
"JSONMappingParameters": {
"RecordRowPath": "string"
}
},
"RecordFormatType": "string"
}
},
"S3ReferenceDataSourceDescription": {
"BucketARN": "string",
"FileKey": "string",
"ReferenceRoleARN": "string"
},
"TableName": "string"
}
]
}
}Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.
The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.
- ApplicationDetail
-
Provides a description of the application, such as the application Amazon Resource Name (ARN), status, latest version, and input and output configuration details.
Type: ApplicationDetail object
Errors
- ResourceNotFoundException
-
Specified application can't be found.
HTTP Status Code: 400
- UnsupportedOperationException
-
The request was rejected because a specified parameter is not supported or a specified resource is not valid for this operation.
HTTP Status Code: 400
See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
