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Synopsis

Calls the Amazon CloudWatch PutMetricStream API operation.

Syntax

Write-CWMetricStream
-Name <String>
-ExcludeFilter <MetricStreamFilter[]>
-FirehoseArn <String>
-IncludeFilter <MetricStreamFilter[]>
-IncludeLinkedAccountsMetric <Boolean>
-OutputFormat <MetricStreamOutputFormat>
-RoleArn <String>
-StatisticsConfiguration <MetricStreamStatisticsConfiguration[]>
-Tag <Tag[]>
-Select <String>
-PassThru <SwitchParameter>
-Force <SwitchParameter>
-ClientConfig <AmazonCloudWatchConfig>

Description

Creates or updates a metric stream. Metric streams can automatically stream CloudWatch metrics to Amazon Web Services destinations, including Amazon S3, and to many third-party solutions. For more information, see Using Metric Streams. To create a metric stream, you must be signed in to an account that has the iam:PassRole permission and either the CloudWatchFullAccess policy or the cloudwatch:PutMetricStream permission. When you create or update a metric stream, you choose one of the following:
  • Stream metrics from all metric namespaces in the account.
  • Stream metrics from all metric namespaces in the account, except for the namespaces that you list in ExcludeFilters.
  • Stream metrics from only the metric namespaces that you list in IncludeFilters.
By default, a metric stream always sends the MAX, MIN, SUM, and SAMPLECOUNT statistics for each metric that is streamed. You can use the StatisticsConfigurations parameter to have the metric stream send additional statistics in the stream. Streaming additional statistics incurs additional costs. For more information, see Amazon CloudWatch Pricing. When you use PutMetricStream to create a new metric stream, the stream is created in the running state. If you use it to update an existing stream, the state of the stream is not changed. If you are using CloudWatch cross-account observability and you create a metric stream in a monitoring account, you can choose whether to include metrics from source accounts in the stream. For more information, see CloudWatch cross-account observability.

Parameters

-ClientConfig <AmazonCloudWatchConfig>
Amazon.PowerShell.Cmdlets.CW.AmazonCloudWatchClientCmdlet.ClientConfig
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-ExcludeFilter <MetricStreamFilter[]>
If you specify this parameter, the stream sends metrics from all metric namespaces except for the namespaces that you specify here.You cannot include ExcludeFilters and IncludeFilters in the same operation.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesExcludeFilters
-FirehoseArn <String>
The ARN of the Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose delivery stream to use for this metric stream. This Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose delivery stream must already exist and must be in the same account as the metric stream.
Required?True
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-Force <SwitchParameter>
This parameter overrides confirmation prompts to force the cmdlet to continue its operation. This parameter should always be used with caution.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-IncludeFilter <MetricStreamFilter[]>
If you specify this parameter, the stream sends only the metrics from the metric namespaces that you specify here.You cannot include IncludeFilters and ExcludeFilters in the same operation.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesIncludeFilters
-IncludeLinkedAccountsMetric <Boolean>
If you are creating a metric stream in a monitoring account, specify true to include metrics from source accounts in the metric stream.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesIncludeLinkedAccountsMetrics
-Name <String>
If you are creating a new metric stream, this is the name for the new stream. The name must be different than the names of other metric streams in this account and Region.If you are updating a metric stream, specify the name of that stream here.Valid characters are A-Z, a-z, 0-9, "-" and "_".
Required?True
Position?1
Accept pipeline input?True (ByValue, ByPropertyName)
-OutputFormat <MetricStreamOutputFormat>
The output format for the stream. Valid values are json and opentelemetry0.7. For more information about metric stream output formats, see Metric streams output formats.
Required?True
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-PassThru <SwitchParameter>
Changes the cmdlet behavior to return the value passed to the Name parameter. The -PassThru parameter is deprecated, use -Select '^Name' instead. This parameter will be removed in a future version.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-RoleArn <String>
The ARN of an IAM role that this metric stream will use to access Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose resources. This IAM role must already exist and must be in the same account as the metric stream. This IAM role must include the following permissions:
  • firehose:PutRecord
  • firehose:PutRecordBatch
Required?True
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-Select <String>
Use the -Select parameter to control the cmdlet output. The default value is 'Arn'. Specifying -Select '*' will result in the cmdlet returning the whole service response (Amazon.CloudWatch.Model.PutMetricStreamResponse). Specifying the name of a property of type Amazon.CloudWatch.Model.PutMetricStreamResponse will result in that property being returned. Specifying -Select '^ParameterName' will result in the cmdlet returning the selected cmdlet parameter value.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-StatisticsConfiguration <MetricStreamStatisticsConfiguration[]>
By default, a metric stream always sends the MAX, MIN, SUM, and SAMPLECOUNT statistics for each metric that is streamed. You can use this parameter to have the metric stream also send additional statistics in the stream. This array can have up to 100 members.For each entry in this array, you specify one or more metrics and the list of additional statistics to stream for those metrics. The additional statistics that you can stream depend on the stream's OutputFormat. If the OutputFormat is json, you can stream any additional statistic that is supported by CloudWatch, listed in CloudWatch statistics definitions. If the OutputFormat is opentelemetry0.7, you can stream percentile statistics such as p95, p99.9, and so on.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesStatisticsConfigurations
-Tag <Tag[]>
A list of key-value pairs to associate with the metric stream. You can associate as many as 50 tags with a metric stream.Tags can help you organize and categorize your resources. You can also use them to scope user permissions by granting a user permission to access or change only resources with certain tag values.You can use this parameter only when you are creating a new metric stream. If you are using this operation to update an existing metric stream, any tags you specify in this parameter are ignored. To change the tags of an existing metric stream, use TagResource or UntagResource.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesTags

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?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesAK
-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?True (ByValue, ByPropertyName)
-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?True (ByPropertyName)
-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?True (ByValue, ByPropertyName)
-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.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?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesAWSProfilesLocation, 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?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesStoredCredentials, AWSProfileName
-Region <Object>
The system name of an AWS region or an AWSRegion instance. This governs the endpoint that will be used when calling service operations. Note that the AWS resources referenced in a call are usually region-specific.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesRegionToCall
-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?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesSK, SecretAccessKey
-SessionToken <String>
The session token if the access and secret keys are temporary session-based credentials.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesST

Outputs

System.String or Amazon.CloudWatch.Model.PutMetricStreamResponse
This cmdlet returns a System.String object. The service call response (type Amazon.CloudWatch.Model.PutMetricStreamResponse) can also be referenced from properties attached to the cmdlet entry in the $AWSHistory stack.
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Supported Version

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