Amazon CloudWatch Cloudwatch Metric Stream API
The Cloudwatch Metric Stream API from Amazon CloudWatch — 6 operation(s) for cloudwatch metric stream.
The Cloudwatch Metric Stream API from Amazon CloudWatch — 6 operation(s) for cloudwatch metric stream.
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openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: Amazon CloudWatch Metric Stream API
version: '2010-08-01'
description: Generated from AWS's published Smithy model for Amazon CloudWatch. 6 operation(s).
contact:
name: Amazon Web Services
url: https://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/
license:
name: Apache 2.0
identifier: Apache-2.0
url: https://github.com/aws/api-models-aws/blob/main/LICENSE
servers:
- url: https://monitoring.{region}.amazonaws.com
variables:
region:
default: us-east-1
security:
- sigv4: []
tags:
- name: Metric Stream
paths:
/#DeleteMetricStream:
post:
operationId: DeleteMetricStream
summary: Delete Metric Stream
description: Permanently deletes the metric stream that you specify.
responses:
'200':
description: Success
content:
text/xml:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/DeleteMetricStreamOutput'
'500':
description: InternalServiceFault
content:
text/xml:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/InternalServiceFault'
'400':
description: InvalidParameterValueException; MissingRequiredParameterException
content:
text/xml:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/InvalidParameterValueException'
parameters:
- name: X-Amz-Target
in: header
required: true
schema:
type: string
enum:
- GraniteServiceVersion20100801.DeleteMetricStream
requestBody:
required: true
content:
application/x-amz-json-1.0:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/DeleteMetricStreamInput'
tags:
- Metric Stream
/#GetMetricStream:
post:
operationId: GetMetricStream
summary: Get Metric Stream
description: Returns information about the metric stream that you specify.
responses:
'200':
description: Success
content:
text/xml:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/GetMetricStreamOutput'
'500':
description: InternalServiceFault
content:
text/xml:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/InternalServiceFault'
'400':
description: InvalidParameterCombinationException; InvalidParameterValueException; MissingRequiredParameterException
content:
text/xml:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/InvalidParameterCombinationException'
'404':
description: ResourceNotFoundException
content:
text/xml:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ResourceNotFoundException'
parameters:
- name: X-Amz-Target
in: header
required: true
schema:
type: string
enum:
- GraniteServiceVersion20100801.GetMetricStream
requestBody:
required: true
content:
application/x-amz-json-1.0:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/GetMetricStreamInput'
tags:
- Metric Stream
/#ListMetricStreams:
post:
operationId: ListMetricStreams
summary: List Metric Streams
description: Returns a list of metric streams in this account.
responses:
'200':
description: Success
content:
text/xml:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ListMetricStreamsOutput'
'500':
description: InternalServiceFault
content:
text/xml:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/InternalServiceFault'
'400':
description: InvalidNextToken; InvalidParameterValueException; MissingRequiredParameterException
content:
text/xml:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/InvalidNextToken'
parameters:
- name: X-Amz-Target
in: header
required: true
schema:
type: string
enum:
- GraniteServiceVersion20100801.ListMetricStreams
requestBody:
required: true
content:
application/x-amz-json-1.0:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ListMetricStreamsInput'
tags:
- Metric Stream
/#PutMetricStream:
post:
operationId: PutMetricStream
summary: Put Metric Stream
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 runni'
responses:
'200':
description: Success
content:
text/xml:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/PutMetricStreamOutput'
'429':
description: ConcurrentModificationException
content:
text/xml:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ConcurrentModificationException'
'500':
description: InternalServiceFault
content:
text/xml:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/InternalServiceFault'
'400':
description: InvalidParameterCombinationException; InvalidParameterValueException; MissingRequiredParameterException
content:
text/xml:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/InvalidParameterCombinationException'
parameters:
- name: X-Amz-Target
in: header
required: true
schema:
type: string
enum:
- GraniteServiceVersion20100801.PutMetricStream
requestBody:
required: true
content:
application/x-amz-json-1.0:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/PutMetricStreamInput'
tags:
- Metric Stream
/#StartMetricStreams:
post:
operationId: StartMetricStreams
summary: Start Metric Streams
description: Starts the streaming of metrics for one or more of your metric streams.
responses:
'200':
description: Success
content:
text/xml:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/StartMetricStreamsOutput'
'500':
description: InternalServiceFault
content:
text/xml:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/InternalServiceFault'
'400':
description: InvalidParameterValueException; MissingRequiredParameterException
content:
text/xml:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/InvalidParameterValueException'
parameters:
- name: X-Amz-Target
in: header
required: true
schema:
type: string
enum:
- GraniteServiceVersion20100801.StartMetricStreams
requestBody:
required: true
content:
application/x-amz-json-1.0:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/StartMetricStreamsInput'
tags:
- Metric Stream
/#StopMetricStreams:
post:
operationId: StopMetricStreams
summary: Stop Metric Streams
description: Stops the streaming of metrics for one or more of your metric streams.
responses:
'200':
description: Success
content:
text/xml:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/StopMetricStreamsOutput'
'500':
description: InternalServiceFault
content:
text/xml:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/InternalServiceFault'
'400':
description: InvalidParameterValueException; MissingRequiredParameterException
content:
text/xml:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/InvalidParameterValueException'
parameters:
- name: X-Amz-Target
in: header
required: true
schema:
type: string
enum:
- GraniteServiceVersion20100801.StopMetricStreams
requestBody:
required: true
content:
application/x-amz-json-1.0:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/StopMetricStreamsInput'
tags:
- Metric Stream
components:
schemas:
StopMetricStreamsInput:
type: object
properties:
Names:
type: array
items:
type: string
description: The array of the names of metric streams to stop streaming. This is an "all or nothing" operation. If you do not have permission to access all of the metric streams that you list here, then none of the streams that you list in the operation will stop streaming.
required:
- Names
ResourceNotFoundException:
type: object
properties:
ResourceType:
type: string
ResourceId:
type: string
Message:
type: string
GetMetricStreamOutput:
type: object
properties:
Arn:
type: string
description: The ARN of the metric stream.
Name:
type: string
description: The name of the metric stream.
IncludeFilters:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/MetricStreamFilter'
description: If this array of metric namespaces is present, then these namespaces are the only metric namespaces that are streamed by this metric stream.
ExcludeFilters:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/MetricStreamFilter'
description: If this array of metric namespaces is present, then these namespaces are the only metric namespaces that are not streamed by this metric stream. In this case, all other metric namespaces in the account are streamed by this metric stream.
FirehoseArn:
type: string
description: The ARN of the Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose delivery stream that is used by this metric stream.
RoleArn:
type: string
description: The ARN of the IAM role that is used by this metric stream.
State:
type: string
description: The state of the metric stream. The possible values are running and stopped.
CreationDate:
type: string
format: date-time
description: The date that the metric stream was created.
LastUpdateDate:
type: string
format: date-time
description: The date of the most recent update to the metric stream's configuration.
OutputFormat:
type: string
enum:
- json
- opentelemetry0.7
- opentelemetry1.0
description: The output format for the stream. Valid values are json, opentelemetry1.0, and opentelemetry0.7. For more information about metric stream output formats, see Metric streams output formats.
StatisticsConfigurations:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/MetricStreamStatisticsConfiguration'
description: Each entry in this array displays information about one or more metrics that include additional statistics in the metric stream. For more information about the additional statistics, see CloudWatch statistics definitions.
IncludeLinkedAccountsMetrics:
type: boolean
description: If this is true and this metric stream is in a monitoring account, then the stream includes metrics from source accounts that the monitoring account is linked to.
InvalidNextToken:
type: object
properties:
message:
type: string
ConcurrentModificationException:
type: object
properties:
Message:
type: string
InvalidParameterValueException:
type: object
properties:
message:
type: string
PutMetricStreamOutput:
type: object
properties:
Arn:
type: string
description: The ARN of the metric stream.
StartMetricStreamsOutput:
type: object
properties: {}
PutMetricStreamInput:
type: object
properties:
Name:
type: string
description: 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 "_".
IncludeFilters:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/MetricStreamFilter'
description: 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.
ExcludeFilters:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/MetricStreamFilter'
description: 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.
FirehoseArn:
type: string
description: 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.
RoleArn:
type: string
description: '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'
OutputFormat:
type: string
enum:
- json
- opentelemetry0.7
- opentelemetry1.0
description: The output format for the stream. Valid values are json, opentelemetry1.0, and opentelemetry0.7. For more information about metric stream output formats, see Metric streams output formats.
Tags:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Tag'
description: 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.
StatisticsConfigurations:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/MetricStreamStatisticsConfiguration'
description: 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 stati
IncludeLinkedAccountsMetrics:
type: boolean
description: If you are creating a metric stream in a monitoring account, specify true to include metrics from source accounts in the metric stream.
required:
- Name
- FirehoseArn
- RoleArn
- OutputFormat
GetMetricStreamInput:
type: object
properties:
Name:
type: string
description: The name of the metric stream to retrieve information about.
required:
- Name
MetricStreamStatisticsConfiguration:
type: object
properties:
IncludeMetrics:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/MetricStreamStatisticsMetric'
description: An array of metric name and namespace pairs that stream the additional statistics listed in the value of the AdditionalStatistics parameter. There can be as many as 100 pairs in the array. All metrics that match the combination of metric name and namespace will be streamed with the additional statistics, no matter their dimensions.
AdditionalStatistics:
type: array
items:
type: string
description: The list of additional statistics that are to be streamed for the metrics listed in the IncludeMetrics array in this structure. This list can include as many as 20 statistics. If the OutputFormat for the stream is opentelemetry1.0 or opentelemetry0.7, the only valid values are p?? percentile statistics such as p90, p99 and so on. If the OutputFormat for the stream is json, the valid values include the abbreviations for all of the statistics listed in CloudWatch statistics definitions. For example, this includes tm98, wm90, PR(:300), and so on.
required:
- IncludeMetrics
- AdditionalStatistics
InvalidParameterCombinationException:
type: object
properties:
message:
type: string
StopMetricStreamsOutput:
type: object
properties: {}
DeleteMetricStreamInput:
type: object
properties:
Name:
type: string
description: The name of the metric stream to delete.
required:
- Name
ListMetricStreamsInput:
type: object
properties:
NextToken:
type: string
description: Include this value, if it was returned by the previous call, to get the next set of metric streams.
MaxResults:
type: integer
description: The maximum number of results to return in one operation.
DeleteMetricStreamOutput:
type: object
properties: {}
MetricStreamFilter:
type: object
properties:
Namespace:
type: string
description: The name of the metric namespace for this filter. The namespace can contain only ASCII printable characters (ASCII range 32 through 126). It must contain at least one non-whitespace character.
MetricNames:
type: array
items:
type: string
description: The names of the metrics to either include or exclude from the metric stream. If you omit this parameter, all metrics in the namespace are included or excluded, depending on whether this filter is specified as an exclude filter or an include filter. Each metric name can contain only ASCII printable characters (ASCII range 32 through 126). Each metric name must contain at least one non-whitespace character.
MetricStreamStatisticsMetric:
type: object
properties:
Namespace:
type: string
description: The namespace of the metric.
MetricName:
type: string
description: The name of the metric.
required:
- Namespace
- MetricName
StartMetricStreamsInput:
type: object
properties:
Names:
type: array
items:
type: string
description: The array of the names of metric streams to start streaming. This is an "all or nothing" operation. If you do not have permission to access all of the metric streams that you list here, then none of the streams that you list in the operation will start streaming.
required:
- Names
Tag:
type: object
properties:
Key:
type: string
description: A string that you can use to assign a value. The combination of tag keys and values can help you organize and categorize your resources.
Value:
type: string
description: The value for the specified tag key.
required:
- Key
- Value
InternalServiceFault:
type: object
properties:
Message:
type: string
ListMetricStreamsOutput:
type: object
properties:
NextToken:
type: string
description: The token that marks the start of the next batch of returned results. You can use this token in a subsequent operation to get the next batch of results.
Entries:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/MetricStreamEntry'
description: The array of metric stream information.
MetricStreamEntry:
type: object
properties:
Arn:
type: string
description: The ARN of the metric stream.
CreationDate:
type: string
format: date-time
description: The date that the metric stream was originally created.
LastUpdateDate:
type: string
format: date-time
description: The date that the configuration of this metric stream was most recently updated.
Name:
type: string
description: The name of the metric stream.
FirehoseArn:
type: string
description: The ARN of the Kinesis Firehose devlivery stream that is used for this metric stream.
State:
type: string
description: The current state of this stream. Valid values are running and stopped.
OutputFormat:
type: string
enum:
- json
- opentelemetry0.7
- opentelemetry1.0
description: The output format of this metric stream. Valid values are json, opentelemetry1.0, and opentelemetry0.7.
securitySchemes:
sigv4:
type: apiKey
in: header
name: Authorization
description: AWS Signature Version 4. The Authorization header carries an AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 signature over the canonical request, with X-Amz-Date (and X-Amz-Security-Token for temporary credentials). Not a bearer token.
x-aws-sigv4:
signingName: monitoring
x-provenance:
method: harvested
publisher: Amazon Web Services
source: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aws/api-models-aws/582e55931c45b944739742a2c1620b6026dd2d13/models/cloudwatch/service/2010-08-01/cloudwatch-2010-08-01.json
note: converted by smithy-to-openapi.py from AWS's Smithy model (roadmap#1001)