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Cloudwatch Alarm Example

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Cloudwatch Alarm Example is an example object payload from Amazon CloudWatch, with 19 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

alarmNamealarmArnalarmDescriptionstateValuestateReasonstateUpdatedTimestampmetricNamenamespacestatisticdimensionsperiodevaluationPeriodsthresholdcomparisonOperatortreatMissingDataactionsEnabledalarmActionsokActionsinsufficientDataActions

Example Payload

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{
  "alarmName": "example-resource",
  "alarmArn": "arn:aws:::example/abc12345",
  "alarmDescription": "example-value",
  "stateValue": "OK",
  "stateReason": "example-value",
  "stateUpdatedTimestamp": "2025-03-15T14:30:00Z",
  "metricName": "example-resource",
  "namespace": "example-resource",
  "statistic": "example-value",
  "dimensions": [
    {
      "name": "example-resource",
      "value": "example-value"
    }
  ],
  "period": 100,
  "evaluationPeriods": 100,
  "threshold": 42.5,
  "comparisonOperator": "example-value",
  "treatMissingData": "example-value",
  "actionsEnabled": true,
  "alarmActions": [
    "example-value"
  ],
  "okActions": [
    "example-value"
  ],
  "insufficientDataActions": [
    "example-value"
  ]
}