MonitorInstances
Enables detailed monitoring for a running instance. Otherwise, basic monitoring is enabled. For more information, see Monitor your instances using CloudWatch in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.
To disable detailed monitoring, see UnmonitorInstances.
Request Parameters
The following parameters are for this specific action. For more information about required and optional parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Query Parameters.
- DryRun
-
Checks whether you have the required permissions for the operation, without actually making the request, and provides an error response. If you have the required permissions, the error response is
DryRunOperation. Otherwise, it isUnauthorizedOperation.Type: Boolean
Required: No
- InstanceId.N
-
The IDs of the instances.
Type: Array of strings
Required: Yes
Response Elements
The following elements are returned by the service.
- instancesSet
-
The monitoring information.
Type: Array of InstanceMonitoring objects
- requestId
-
The ID of the request.
Type: String
Errors
For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common client error codes.
Examples
Example
This example enables detailed monitoring for the specified two instances.
Sample Request
https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=MonitorInstances
&InstanceId.1=i-1234567890abcdef0
&InstanceId.2=i-0598c7d356eba48d7
&AUTHPARAMSSample Response
<MonitorInstancesResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2016-11-15/">
<requestId>59dbff89-35bd-4eac-99ed-be587EXAMPLE</requestId>
<instancesSet>
<item>
<instanceId>i-1234567890abcdef0</instanceId>
<monitoring>
<state>pending</state>
</monitoring>
</item>
<item>
<instanceId>i-0598c7d356eba48d7</instanceId>
<monitoring>
<state>pending</state>
</monitoring>
</item>
</instancesSet>
</MonitorInstancesResponse>See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
