DescribeLogGroupsRequest

{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "https://artifacts.apis.io/amazon-cloudwatch/json-schema/amazon-cloudwatch-describe-log-groups-request-schema.json",
  "title": "DescribeLogGroupsRequest",
  "x-generated": "2026-11-11",
  "x-method": "derived",
  "x-generator": "derive-json-schema.py",
  "x-source": "openapi/amazon-cloudwatch-log-group-api-openapi.yml#/components/schemas/DescribeLogGroupsRequest",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "accountIdentifiers": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string"
      },
      "description": "When includeLinkedAccounts is set to true, use this parameter to specify the list of accounts to search. You can specify as many as 20 account IDs in the array."
    },
    "logGroupNamePrefix": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The prefix to match. logGroupNamePrefix and logGroupNamePattern are mutually exclusive. Only one of these parameters can be passed."
    },
    "logGroupNamePattern": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "If you specify a string for this parameter, the operation returns only log groups that have names that match the string based on a case-sensitive substring search. For example, if you specify DataLogs, log groups named DataLogs, aws/DataLogs, and GroupDataLogs would match, but datalogs, Data/log/s and Groupdata would not match. If you specify logGroupNamePattern in your request, then only arn, creationTime, and logGroupName are included in the response. logGroupNamePattern and logGroupNamePrefix are mutually exclusive. Only one of these parameters can be passed."
    },
    "nextToken": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The token for the next set of items to return. (You received this token from a previous call.)"
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "The maximum number of items returned. If you don't specify a value, the default is up to 50 items."
    },
    "includeLinkedAccounts": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "If you are using a monitoring account, set this to true to have the operation return log groups in the accounts listed in accountIdentifiers. If this parameter is set to true and accountIdentifiers contains a null value, the operation returns all log groups in the monitoring account and all log groups in all source accounts that are linked to the monitoring account. The default for this parameter is false."
    },
    "logGroupClass": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "STANDARD",
        "INFREQUENT_ACCESS",
        "DELIVERY",
        "ESSENTIALS"
      ],
      "description": "Use this parameter to limit the results to only those log groups in the specified log group class. If you omit this parameter, log groups of all classes can be returned. If you specify either INFREQUENT_ACCESS or ESSENTIALS, the results include log groups in both the Infrequent Access and Essentials log classes. Specifies the log group class for this log group. There are four classes: The Standard log class supports all CloudWatch Logs features. The Infrequent Access log class supports a subset of CloudWatch Logs features and incurs lower costs. The Essentials log class supports a subset of Cl"
    },
    "logGroupIdentifiers": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string"
      },
      "description": "Use this array to filter the list of log groups returned. If you specify this parameter, the only other filter that you can choose to specify is includeLinkedAccounts. If you are using this operation in a monitoring account, you can specify the ARNs of log groups in source accounts and in the monitoring account itself. If you are using this operation in an account that is not a cross-account monitoring account, you can specify only log group names in the same account as the operation."
    }
  }
}