AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell
Command Reference

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Synopsis

Calls the Amazon CloudWatch ListMetrics API operation.

Syntax

Get-CWMetricList
-Namespace <String>
-MetricName <String>
-Dimension <DimensionFilter[]>
-NextToken <String>
-NoAutoIteration <SwitchParameter>

Description

Returns a list of valid metrics stored for the AWS account owner. Returned metrics can be used with GetMetricStatistics to obtain statistical data for a given metric. NOTE: Up to 500 results are returned for any one call. To retrieve further results, use returned NextToken values with subsequent ListMetrics operations. NOTE: If you create a metric with the PutMetricData action, allow up to fifteen minutes for the metric to appear in calls to the ListMetrics action. Statistics about the metric, however, are available sooner using GetMetricStatistics. Note: For scripts written against earlier versions of this module this cmdlet can also be invoked with the alias Get-CWMetrics.

Note: For scripts written against earlier versions of this module this cmdlet can also be invoked with the alias, Get-CWMetrics.

Parameters

-Dimension <DimensionFilter[]>
A list of dimensions to filter against. Constraints:Length0 - 10
Required?False
Position?3
Accept pipeline input?False
AliasesDimensions
-MetricName <String>
The name of the metric to filter against. Constraints:Length1 - 255
Required?False
Position?2
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-Namespace <String>
The namespace to filter against. Constraints:Length1 - 255Pattern[^:].*
Required?False
Position?1
Accept pipeline input?True (ByValue, ByPropertyName)
-NextToken <String>
The token returned by a previous call to indicate that there is more data available.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?False
-NoAutoIteration <SwitchParameter>
By default the cmdlet will auto-iterate and retrieve all metrics to the pipeline. If set, the cmdlet will retrieve only the next 'page' of results (max 500 entries) using the value of NextToken as the start point.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?False

Common Credential and Region Parameters

-AccessKey <String>
The AWS access key for the user account. This can be a temporary access key if the corresponding session token is supplied to the -SessionToken parameter.
Required? False
Position? Named
Accept pipeline input? False
Aliases AK
-Credential <AWSCredentials>
An AWSCredentials object instance containing access and secret key information, and optionally a token for session-based credentials.
Required? False
Position? Named
Accept pipeline input? False
-ProfileLocation <String>

Used to specify the name and location of the ini-format credential file (shared with the AWS CLI and other AWS SDKs)

If this optional parameter is omitted this cmdlet will search the encrypted credential file used by the AWS SDK for .NET and AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio first. If the profile is not found then the cmdlet will search in the ini-format credential file at the default location: (user's home directory)\.aws\credentials. Note that the encrypted credential file is not supported on all platforms. It will be skipped when searching for profiles on Windows Nano Server, Mac, and Linux platforms.

If this parameter is specified then this cmdlet will only search the ini-format credential file at the location given.

As the current folder can vary in a shell or during script execution it is advised that you use specify a fully qualified path instead of a relative path.

Required? False
Position? Named
Accept pipeline input? False
Aliases AWSProfilesLocation, ProfilesLocation
-ProfileName <String>
The user-defined name of an AWS credentials or SAML-based role profile containing credential information. The profile is expected to be found in the secure credential file shared with the AWS SDK for .NET and AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio. You can also specify the name of a profile stored in the .ini-format credential file used with the AWS CLI and other AWS SDKs.
Required? False
Position? Named
Accept pipeline input? False
Aliases AWSProfileName, StoredCredentials
-NetworkCredential <PSCredential>
Used with SAML-based authentication when ProfileName references a SAML role profile. Contains the network credentials to be supplied during authentication with the configured identity provider's endpoint. This parameter is not required if the user's default network identity can or should be used during authentication.
Required? False
Position? Named
Accept pipeline input? False
-SecretKey <String>
The AWS secret key for the user account. This can be a temporary secret key if the corresponding session token is supplied to the -SessionToken parameter.
Required? False
Position? Named
Accept pipeline input? False
Aliases SecretAccessKey, SK
-SessionToken <String>
The session token if the access and secret keys are temporary session-based credentials.
Required? False
Position? Named
Accept pipeline input? False
Aliases ST
-Region <String>
The system name of the AWS region in which the operation should be invoked. For example, us-east-1, eu-west-1 etc.
Required? False
Position? Named
Accept pipeline input? False
Aliases RegionToCall
-EndpointUrl <String>

The endpoint to make the call against.

Note: This parameter is primarily for internal AWS use and is not required/should not be specified for normal usage. The cmdlets normally determine which endpoint to call based on the region specified to the -Region parameter or set as default in the shell (via Set-DefaultAWSRegion). Only specify this parameter if you must direct the call to a specific custom endpoint.

Required? False
Position? Named
Accept pipeline input? False

Inputs

System.String
You can pipe a String object to this cmdlet for the Namespace parameter.

Outputs

Amazon.CloudWatch.Model.Metric
This cmdlet returns 0 or more Metric instances. The service response (type Amazon.CloudWatch.Model.ListMetricsResponse) is added to the cmdlet entry in the $AWSHistory stack. Additionally, the following properties are added as notes to the service response type instance in the history stack: NextToken (type String)
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Supported Version

AWS Tools for PowerShell: 2.x.y.z