Amazon CloudWatch · Schema

DescribeMetricFiltersRequest

Amazon Web ServicesCloudWatchMonitoringObservabilityMetricsLogs

Properties

Name Type Description
logGroupName string The name of the log group.
filterNamePrefix string The prefix to match. CloudWatch Logs uses the value that you set here only if you also include the logGroupName parameter in your request.
nextToken string The token for the next set of items to return. (You received this token from a previous call.)
limit integer The maximum number of items returned. If you don't specify a value, the default is up to 50 items.
metricName string Filters results to include only those with the specified metric name. If you include this parameter in your request, you must also include the metricNamespace parameter.
metricNamespace string Filters results to include only those in the specified namespace. If you include this parameter in your request, you must also include the metricName parameter.
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JSON Schema

amazon-cloudwatch-describe-metric-filters-request-schema.json Raw ↑
{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "https://artifacts.apis.io/amazon-cloudwatch/json-schema/amazon-cloudwatch-describe-metric-filters-request-schema.json",
  "title": "DescribeMetricFiltersRequest",
  "x-generated": "2026-11-11",
  "x-method": "derived",
  "x-generator": "derive-json-schema.py",
  "x-source": "openapi/amazon-cloudwatch-metric-filter-api-openapi.yml#/components/schemas/DescribeMetricFiltersRequest",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "logGroupName": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The name of the log group."
    },
    "filterNamePrefix": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The prefix to match. CloudWatch Logs uses the value that you set here only if you also include the logGroupName parameter in your request."
    },
    "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."
    },
    "metricName": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Filters results to include only those with the specified metric name. If you include this parameter in your request, you must also include the metricNamespace parameter."
    },
    "metricNamespace": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Filters results to include only those in the specified namespace. If you include this parameter in your request, you must also include the metricName parameter."
    }
  }
}

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