Request Syntax Request Parameters Response Syntax Response Elements Errors Examples See Also

DescribeScalingActivities

Provides descriptive information about the scaling activities in the specified namespace from the previous six weeks.

You can filter the results using ResourceId and ScalableDimension.

For information about viewing scaling activities using the AWS CLI, see Scaling activities for Application Auto Scaling.

Request Syntax


{
   "IncludeNotScaledActivities": boolean,
   "MaxResults": number,
   "NextToken": "string",
   "ResourceId": "string",
   "ScalableDimension": "string",
   "ServiceNamespace": "string"
}

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

IncludeNotScaledActivities

Specifies whether to include activities that aren't scaled (not scaled activities) in the response. Not scaled activities are activities that aren't completed or started for various reasons, such as preventing infinite scaling loops. For help interpreting the not scaled reason details in the response, see Scaling activities for Application Auto Scaling.

Type: Boolean

Required: No

MaxResults

The maximum number of scalable targets. This value can be between 1 and 50. The default value is 50.

If this parameter is used, the operation returns up to MaxResults results at a time, along with a NextToken value. To get the next set of results, include the NextToken value in a subsequent call. If this parameter is not used, the operation returns up to 50 results and a NextToken value, if applicable.

Type: Integer

Required: No

NextToken

The token for the next set of results.

Type: String

Pattern: [\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\r\n\t]*

Required: No

ResourceId

The identifier of the resource associated with the scaling activity. This string consists of the resource type and unique identifier.

ECS service - The resource type is service and the unique identifier is the cluster name and service name. Example: service/my-cluster/my-service.
Spot Fleet - The resource type is spot-fleet-request and the unique identifier is the Spot Fleet request ID. Example: spot-fleet-request/sfr-73fbd2ce-aa30-494c-8788-1cee4EXAMPLE.
EMR cluster - The resource type is instancegroup and the unique identifier is the cluster ID and instance group ID. Example: instancegroup/j-2EEZNYKUA1NTV/ig-1791Y4E1L8YI0.
AppStream 2.0 fleet - The resource type is fleet and the unique identifier is the fleet name. Example: fleet/sample-fleet.
DynamoDB table - The resource type is table and the unique identifier is the table name. Example: table/my-table.
DynamoDB global secondary index - The resource type is index and the unique identifier is the index name. Example: table/my-table/index/my-table-index.
Aurora DB cluster - The resource type is cluster and the unique identifier is the cluster name. Example: cluster:my-db-cluster.
SageMaker endpoint variant - The resource type is variant and the unique identifier is the resource ID. Example: endpoint/my-end-point/variant/KMeansClustering.
Custom resources are not supported with a resource type. This parameter must specify the OutputValue from the CloudFormation template stack used to access the resources. The unique identifier is defined by the service provider. More information is available in our GitHub repository.
Amazon Comprehend document classification endpoint - The resource type and unique identifier are specified using the endpoint ARN. Example: arn:aws:comprehend:us-west-2:123456789012:document-classifier-endpoint/EXAMPLE.
Amazon Comprehend entity recognizer endpoint - The resource type and unique identifier are specified using the endpoint ARN. Example: arn:aws:comprehend:us-west-2:123456789012:entity-recognizer-endpoint/EXAMPLE.
Lambda provisioned concurrency - The resource type is function and the unique identifier is the function name with a function version or alias name suffix that is not $LATEST. Example: function:my-function:prod or function:my-function:1.
Amazon Keyspaces table - The resource type is table and the unique identifier is the table name. Example: keyspace/mykeyspace/table/mytable.
Amazon MSK cluster - The resource type and unique identifier are specified using the cluster ARN. Example: arn:aws:kafka:us-east-1:123456789012:cluster/demo-cluster-1/6357e0b2-0e6a-4b86-a0b4-70df934c2e31-5.
Amazon ElastiCache replication group - The resource type is replication-group and the unique identifier is the replication group name. Example: replication-group/mycluster.
Neptune cluster - The resource type is cluster and the unique identifier is the cluster name. Example: cluster:mycluster.
SageMaker serverless endpoint - The resource type is variant and the unique identifier is the resource ID. Example: endpoint/my-end-point/variant/KMeansClustering.
SageMaker inference component - The resource type is inference-component and the unique identifier is the resource ID. Example: inference-component/my-inference-component.
Pool of WorkSpaces - The resource type is workspacespool and the unique identifier is the pool ID. Example: workspacespool/wspool-123456.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1600.

Pattern: [\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\r\n\t]*

Required: No

ScalableDimension

The scalable dimension. This string consists of the service namespace, resource type, and scaling property. If you specify a scalable dimension, you must also specify a resource ID.

ecs:service:DesiredCount - The task count of an ECS service.
elasticmapreduce:instancegroup:InstanceCount - The instance count of an EMR Instance Group.
ec2:spot-fleet-request:TargetCapacity - The target capacity of a Spot Fleet.
appstream:fleet:DesiredCapacity - The capacity of an AppStream 2.0 fleet.
dynamodb:table:ReadCapacityUnits - The provisioned read capacity for a DynamoDB table.
dynamodb:table:WriteCapacityUnits - The provisioned write capacity for a DynamoDB table.
dynamodb:index:ReadCapacityUnits - The provisioned read capacity for a DynamoDB global secondary index.
dynamodb:index:WriteCapacityUnits - The provisioned write capacity for a DynamoDB global secondary index.
rds:cluster:ReadReplicaCount - The count of Aurora Replicas in an Aurora DB cluster. Available for Aurora MySQL-compatible edition and Aurora PostgreSQL-compatible edition.
sagemaker:variant:DesiredInstanceCount - The number of EC2 instances for a SageMaker model endpoint variant.
custom-resource:ResourceType:Property - The scalable dimension for a custom resource provided by your own application or service.
comprehend:document-classifier-endpoint:DesiredInferenceUnits - The number of inference units for an Amazon Comprehend document classification endpoint.
comprehend:entity-recognizer-endpoint:DesiredInferenceUnits - The number of inference units for an Amazon Comprehend entity recognizer endpoint.
lambda:function:ProvisionedConcurrency - The provisioned concurrency for a Lambda function.
cassandra:table:ReadCapacityUnits - The provisioned read capacity for an Amazon Keyspaces table.
cassandra:table:WriteCapacityUnits - The provisioned write capacity for an Amazon Keyspaces table.
kafka:broker-storage:VolumeSize - The provisioned volume size (in GiB) for brokers in an Amazon MSK cluster.
elasticache:replication-group:NodeGroups - The number of node groups for an Amazon ElastiCache replication group.
elasticache:replication-group:Replicas - The number of replicas per node group for an Amazon ElastiCache replication group.
neptune:cluster:ReadReplicaCount - The count of read replicas in an Amazon Neptune DB cluster.
sagemaker:variant:DesiredProvisionedConcurrency - The provisioned concurrency for a SageMaker serverless endpoint.
sagemaker:inference-component:DesiredCopyCount - The number of copies across an endpoint for a SageMaker inference component.
workspaces:workspacespool:DesiredUserSessions - The number of user sessions for the WorkSpaces in the pool.

Type: String

Required: No

ServiceNamespace

The namespace of the AWS service that provides the resource. For a resource provided by your own application or service, use custom-resource instead.

Type: String

Required: Yes

Response Syntax


{
   "NextToken": "string",
   "ScalingActivities": [ 
      { 
         "ActivityId": "string",
         "Cause": "string",
         "Description": "string",
         "Details": "string",
         "EndTime": number,
         "NotScaledReasons": [ 
            { 
               "Code": "string",
               "CurrentCapacity": number,
               "MaxCapacity": number,
               "MinCapacity": number
            }
         ],
         "ResourceId": "string",
         "ScalableDimension": "string",
         "ServiceNamespace": "string",
         "StartTime": number,
         "StatusCode": "string",
         "StatusMessage": "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.

NextToken

The token required to get the next set of results. This value is null if there are no more results to return.

Type: String

Pattern: [\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\r\n\t]*

ScalingActivities

A list of scaling activity objects.

Type: Array of ScalingActivity objects

Errors

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

ConcurrentUpdateException

Concurrent updates caused an exception, for example, if you request an update to an Application Auto Scaling resource that already has a pending update.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InternalServiceException

The service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidNextTokenException

The next token supplied was invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ValidationException

An exception was thrown for a validation issue. Review the available parameters for the API request.

HTTP Status Code: 400

Examples

If you plan to create requests manually, you must replace the Authorization header contents in the examples (AUTHPARAMS) with a signature. For more information, see Signing AWS API requests in the IAM User Guide. If you plan to use the AWS CLI or one of the AWS SDKs, these tools sign the requests for you.

Example of scaling activities for a scaling policy

The following example describes the scaling activities for an Amazon ECS service named web-app that's running in the default cluster. It shows the scaling activities for the scaling policy named cpu75-target-tracking-scaling-policy, initiated by the CloudWatch alarm named TargetTracking-service/my-cluster/my-service-AlarmHigh-d4f0770c-b46e-434a-a60f-3b36d653feca.

Sample Request


POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: application-autoscaling.us-west-2.amazonaws.com
Accept-Encoding: identity
Content-Length: [content-length]
X-Amz-Target: AnyScaleFrontendService.DescribeScalingActivities
X-Amz-Date: 20190506T224112Z
User-Agent: aws-cli/1.10.26 Python/2.7.11 Darwin/15.4.0 botocore/1.4.8
Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1
Authorization: AUTHPARAMS

{
  "ResourceId": "service/my-cluster/my-service",
  "ServiceNamespace": "ecs",
  "ScalableDimension": "ecs:service:DesiredCount"
}

Sample Response


HTTP/1.1 200 OK
x-amzn-RequestId: [request-id]
Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1
Content-Length: 1784
Date: Fri, 06 May 2019 22:41:12 GMT

{
  "ScalingActivities": [
    {
      "ScalableDimension": "ecs:service:DesiredCount",
      "Description": "Setting desired count to 3.",
      "ResourceId": "service/my-cluster/my-service",
      "ActivityId": "4d759079-a31f-4d0c-8468-504c56e2eecf",
      "StartTime": 1462574194.658,
      "ServiceNamespace": "ecs",
      "EndTime": 1462574276.686,
      "Cause": "monitor alarm TargetTracking-service/my-cluster/my-service-AlarmHigh-d4f0770c-b46e-434a-a60f-3b36d653feca in state ALARM triggered policy cpu75-target-tracking-scaling-policy",
      "StatusMessage": "Successfully set desired count to 3. Change successfully fulfilled by ecs.",
      "StatusCode": "Successful"
    },
    {
      "ScalableDimension": "ecs:service:DesiredCount",
      "Description": "Setting desired count to 2.",
      "ResourceId": "service/my-cluster/my-service",
      "ActivityId": "90aff0eb-dd6a-443c-889b-b809e78061c1",
      "StartTime": 1462574254.223,
      "ServiceNamespace": "ecs",
      "EndTime": 1462574333.492,
      "Cause": "monitor alarm TargetTracking-service/my-cluster/my-service-AlarmHigh-d4f0770c-b46e-434a-a60f-3b36d653feca in state ALARM triggered policy cpu75-target-tracking-scaling-policy",
      "StatusMessage": "Successfully set desired count to 2. Change successfully fulfilled by ecs.",
      "StatusCode": "Successful"
    }
  ]
}

Example of scaling activities for scheduled actions

The following example describes the scaling activities for a DynamoDB table named my-table. It shows the scaling activities for scheduled actions named my-first-scheduled-action and my-second-scheduled-action.

Sample Request


POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: application-autoscaling.us-west-2.amazonaws.com
Accept-Encoding: identity
Content-Length: [content-length]
X-Amz-Target: AnyScaleFrontendService.DescribeScalingActivities
X-Amz-Date: 20190526T110828Z
User-Agent: aws-cli/1.10.26 Python/2.7.11 Darwin/15.4.0 botocore/1.4.8
Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1
Authorization: AUTHPARAMS

{
  "ResourceId": "table/my-table",
  "ServiceNamespace": "dynamodb",
  "ScalableDimension": "dynamodb:table:WriteCapacityUnits"
}

Sample Response


HTTP/1.1 200 OK
x-amzn-RequestId: [request-id]
Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1
Content-Length: 1784
Date: Fri, 26 May 2019 11:08:28 GMT

{
  "ScalingActivities": [
    {
      "ScalableDimension": "dynamodb:table:WriteCapacityUnits",
      "Description": "Setting write capacity units to 10.",
      "ResourceId": "table/my-table",
      "ActivityId": "4d1308c0-bbcf-4514-a673-b0220ae38547",
      "StartTime": 1561574415.086,
      "ServiceNamespace": "dynamodb",
      "Cause": "maximum capacity was set to 10",
      "StatusMessage": "Successfully set write capacity units to 10. Waiting for change to be fulfilled by dynamodb.",
      "StatusCode": "InProgress"
    },
    {
      "ScalableDimension": "dynamodb:table:WriteCapacityUnits",
      "Description": "Setting min capacity to 5 and max capacity to 10",
      "ResourceId": "table/my-table",
      "ActivityId": "f2b7847b-721d-4e01-8ef0-0c8d3bacc1c7",
      "StartTime": 1561574414.644,
      "ServiceNamespace": "dynamodb",
      "Cause": "scheduled action name my-second-scheduled-action was triggered",
      "StatusMessage": "Successfully set min capacity to 5 and max capacity to 10",
      "StatusCode": "Successful"
    },
    {
      "ScalableDimension": "dynamodb:table:WriteCapacityUnits",
      "Description": "Setting write capacity units to 15.",
      "ResourceId": "table/my-table",
      "ActivityId": "d8ea4de6-9eaa-499f-b466-2cc5e681ba8b",
      "StartTime": 1561574108.904,
      "ServiceNamespace": "dynamodb",
      "EndTime": 1561574140.255,
      "Cause": "minimum capacity was set to 15",
      "StatusMessage": "Successfully set write capacity units to 15. Change successfully fulfilled by dynamodb.",
      "StatusCode": "Successful"
    },
    {
      "ScalableDimension": "dynamodb:table:WriteCapacityUnits",
      "Description": "Setting min capacity to 15 and max capacity to 20",
      "ResourceId": "table/my-table",
      "ActivityId": "3250fd06-6940-4e8e-bb1f-d494db7554d2",
      "StartTime": 1561574108.512,
      "ServiceNamespace": "dynamodb",
      "Cause": "scheduled action name my-first-scheduled-action was triggered",
      "StatusMessage": "Successfully set min capacity to 15 and max capacity to 20",
      "StatusCode": "Successful"
    }
  ]
}