Entity
An entity associated with metrics, to allow for finding related telemetry. An entity is typically a resource or service within your system. For example, metrics from an Amazon EC2 instance could be associated with that instance as the entity. Similarly, metrics from a service that you own could be associated with that service as the entity.
Contents
- Attributes
- Attributes.entry.N.key (key)
- Attributes.entry.N.value (value)
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Additional attributes of the entity that are not used to specify the identity of the entity. A list of key-value pairs.
For details about how to use the attributes, see How to add related information to telemetry in the CloudWatch User Guide.
Type: String to string map
Map Entries: Minimum number of 0 items. Maximum number of 10 items.
Key Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 256.
Value Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 2048.
Required: No
- KeyAttributes
- KeyAttributes.entry.N.key (key)
- KeyAttributes.entry.N.value (value)
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The attributes of the entity which identify the specific entity, as a list of key-value pairs. Entities with the same
KeyAttributesare considered to be the same entity. For an entity to be valid, theKeyAttributesmust exist and be formatted correctly.There are five allowed attributes (key names):
Type,ResourceType,Identifier,Name, andEnvironment.For details about how to use the key attributes to specify an entity, see How to add related information to telemetry in the CloudWatch User Guide.
Type: String to string map
Map Entries: Minimum number of 2 items. Maximum number of 4 items.
Key Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 32.
Value Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 2048.
Required: No
See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
