Request Parameters Response Elements Errors Examples See Also

DescribeEvents

Returns events related to clusters, security groups, snapshots, and parameter groups for the past 14 days. Events specific to a particular cluster, security group, snapshot or parameter group can be obtained by providing the name as a parameter. By default, the past hour of events are returned.

Request Parameters

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

Duration

The number of minutes prior to the time of the request for which to retrieve events. For example, if the request is sent at 18:00 and you specify a duration of 60, then only events which have occurred after 17:00 will be returned.

Default: 60

Type: Integer

Required: No

EndTime

The end of the time interval for which to retrieve events, specified in ISO 8601 format. For more information about ISO 8601, go to the ISO8601 Wikipedia page.

Example: 2009-07-08T18:00Z

Type: Timestamp

Required: No

Marker

An optional parameter that specifies the starting point to return a set of response records. When the results of a DescribeEvents request exceed the value specified in MaxRecords, AWS returns a value in the Marker field of the response. You can retrieve the next set of response records by providing the returned marker value in the Marker parameter and retrying the request.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 2147483647.

Required: No

MaxRecords

The maximum number of response records to return in each call. If the number of remaining response records exceeds the specified MaxRecords value, a value is returned in a marker field of the response. You can retrieve the next set of records by retrying the command with the returned marker value.

Default: 100

Constraints: minimum 20, maximum 100.

Type: Integer

Required: No

SourceIdentifier

The identifier of the event source for which events will be returned. If this parameter is not specified, then all sources are included in the response.

Constraints:

If SourceIdentifier is supplied, SourceType must also be provided.

Specify a cluster identifier when SourceType is cluster.
Specify a cluster security group name when SourceType is cluster-security-group.
Specify a cluster parameter group name when SourceType is cluster-parameter-group.
Specify a cluster snapshot identifier when SourceType is cluster-snapshot.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 2147483647.

Required: No

SourceType

The event source to retrieve events for. If no value is specified, all events are returned.

Constraints:

If SourceType is supplied, SourceIdentifier must also be provided.

Specify cluster when SourceIdentifier is a cluster identifier.
Specify cluster-security-group when SourceIdentifier is a cluster security group name.
Specify cluster-parameter-group when SourceIdentifier is a cluster parameter group name.
Specify cluster-snapshot when SourceIdentifier is a cluster snapshot identifier.

Type: String

Valid Values: cluster | cluster-parameter-group | cluster-security-group | cluster-snapshot | scheduled-action

Required: No

StartTime

The beginning of the time interval to retrieve events for, specified in ISO 8601 format. For more information about ISO 8601, go to the ISO8601 Wikipedia page.

Example: 2009-07-08T18:00Z

Type: Timestamp

Required: No

Response Elements

The following elements are returned by the service.

Events.Event.N

A list of Event instances.

Type: Array of Event objects

Marker

A value that indicates the starting point for the next set of response records in a subsequent request. If a value is returned in a response, you can retrieve the next set of records by providing this returned marker value in the Marker parameter and retrying the command. If the Marker field is empty, all response records have been retrieved for the request.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 2147483647.

Errors

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

Examples

Example

This example illustrates one usage of DescribeEvents.

Sample Request


https://redshift.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/
       ?Action=DescribeEvents
&SignatureMethod=HmacSHA256&SignatureVersion=4
&Version=2012-12-01
&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256
&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE/20190817/us-east-2/redshift/aws4_request
&X-Amz-Date=20190825T160000Z
&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=content-type;host;user-agent;x-amz-content-sha256;x-amz-date
&X-Amz-Signature=0aa1234bb5cc678ddddd901ee2ff3aa45678b90c12d345e6ff789012345a6b7b

Sample Response


<DescribeEventsResponse xmlns="http://redshift.amazonaws.com/doc/2012-12-01/">
  <DescribeEventsResult>
    <Events>
      <Event>
        <Date>2019-12-26T23:36:48.457Z</Date>
        <Severity>INFO</Severity>
        <EventId>REDSHIFT-EVENT-1004</EventId>
        <SourceIdentifier>myclusterparametergroup</SourceIdentifier>
        <SourceType>cluster-parameter-group</SourceType>
        <EventCategories>
          <EventCategory>configuration</EventCategory>
        </EventCategories>
        <Message>Cluster parameter group 'myclusterparametergroup' was deleted at 2019-12-26 23:36 UTC.</Message>
      </Event>
      <Event>
        <Date>2019-12-26T23:40:00.753Z</Date>
        <Severity>INFO</Severity>
        <EventId>REDSHIFT-EVENT-2011</EventId>
        <SourceIdentifier>mysnapshotid</SourceIdentifier>
        <SourceType>cluster-snapshot</SourceType>
        <EventCategories>
          <EventCategory>management</EventCategory>
        </EventCategories>
        <Message>The cluster snapshot 'mysnapshotid' for Amazon Redshift cluster 'mycluster' was deleted at 2019-12-26 23:40 UTC.</Message>
      </Event>
      <Event>
        <Date>2019-12-26T23:42:43.247Z</Date>
        <Severity>INFO</Severity>
        <EventId>REDSHIFT-EVENT-2001</EventId>
        <SourceIdentifier>mycluster</SourceIdentifier>
        <SourceType>cluster</SourceType>
        <EventCategories>
          <EventCategory>management</EventCategory>
        </EventCategories>
        <Message>Amazon Redshift cluster 'mycluster' has been deleted at 2019-12-26 23:42 UTC. A final snapshot was not saved.</Message>
      </Event>
      <Event>
        <Date>2019-12-26T23:55:04.170Z</Date>
        <Severity>INFO</Severity>
        <EventId>REDSHIFT-EVENT-3614</EventId>
        <SourceIdentifier>myscheduledaction</SourceIdentifier>
        <SourceType>scheduled-action</SourceType>
        <EventCategories>
          <EventCategory>management</EventCategory>
        </EventCategories>
        <Message>The scheduled action 'myscheduledaction' was created at 2019-12-26 23:55 UTC. The first invocation is scheduled at 2019-12-31 00:00 UTC.</Message>
      </Event>
      <Event>
        <Date>2019-12-26T23:55:19.846Z</Date>
        <Severity>INFO</Severity>
        <EventId>REDSHIFT-EVENT-3627</EventId>
        <SourceIdentifier>myscheduledaction</SourceIdentifier>
        <SourceType>scheduled-action</SourceType>
        <EventCategories>
          <EventCategory>management</EventCategory>
        </EventCategories>
        <Message>Scheduled action 'myscheduledaction' was deleted at 2019-12-26 23:55 UTC.</Message>
      </Event>
      <Event>
        <Date>2019-12-27T00:16:36.767Z</Date>
        <Severity>INFO</Severity>
        <EventId>REDSHIFT-EVENT-2000</EventId>
        <SourceIdentifier>mycluster</SourceIdentifier>
        <SourceType>cluster</SourceType>
        <EventCategories>
          <EventCategory>management</EventCategory>
        </EventCategories>
        <Message>Amazon Redshift cluster 'mycluster' has been created at 2019-12-27 00:16 UTC and is ready for use.</Message>
      </Event>
    </Events>
  </DescribeEventsResult>
  <ResponseMetadata>
    <RequestId>eb82309b-283f-11ea-9caa-c956bec1ce87</RequestId>
  </ResponseMetadata>
</DescribeEventsResponse>