StartDiscovery - Application Signals

StartDiscovery

Enables this AWS account to be able to use CloudWatch Application Signals by creating the AWSServiceRoleForCloudWatchApplicationSignals service-linked role. This service- linked role has the following permissions:

  • xray:GetServiceGraph

  • logs:StartQuery

  • logs:GetQueryResults

  • cloudwatch:GetMetricData

  • cloudwatch:ListMetrics

  • tag:GetResources

  • autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingGroups

After completing this step, you still need to instrument your Java and Python applications to send data to Application Signals. For more information, see Enabling Application Signals.

Request Syntax

POST /start-discovery HTTP/1.1

URI Request Parameters

The request does not use any URI parameters.

Request Body

The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax

HTTP/1.1 200

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response with an empty HTTP body.

Errors

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

AccessDeniedException

You don't have sufficient permissions to perform this action.

HTTP Status Code: 403

ThrottlingException

The request was throttled because of quota limits.

HTTP Status Code: 429

ValidationException

The resource is not valid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

See Also

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