HealthClient

Health

The Health API provides access to the Health information that appears in the Health Dashboard . You can use the API operations to get information about events that might affect your Amazon Web Services services and resources.

You must have a Business, Enterprise On-Ramp, or Enterprise Support plan from Amazon Web Services Support  to use the Health API. If you call the Health API from an Amazon Web Services account that doesn't have a Business, Enterprise On-Ramp, or Enterprise Support plan, you receive a SubscriptionRequiredException error.

For API access, you need an access key ID and a secret access key. Use temporary credentials instead of long-term access keys when possible. Temporary credentials include an access key ID, a secret access key, and a security token that indicates when the credentials expire. For more information, see Best practices for managing Amazon Web Services access keys  in the Amazon Web Services General Reference.

You can use the Health endpoint health.us-east-1.amazonaws.com (HTTPS) to call the Health API operations. Health supports a multi-Region application architecture and has two regional endpoints in an active-passive configuration. You can use the high availability endpoint example to determine which Amazon Web Services Region is active, so that you can get the latest information from the API. For more information, see Accessing the Health API  in the Health User Guide.

For authentication of requests, Health uses the Signature Version 4 Signing Process .

If your Amazon Web Services account is part of Organizations, you can use the Health organizational view feature. This feature provides a centralized view of Health events across all accounts in your organization. You can aggregate Health events in real time to identify accounts in your organization that are affected by an operational event or get notified of security vulnerabilities. Use the organizational view API operations to enable this feature and return event information. For more information, see Aggregating Health events  in the Health User Guide.

When you use the Health API operations to return Health events, see the following recommendations:

  • Use the eventScopeCode  parameter to specify whether to return Health events that are public or account-specific.

  • Use pagination to view all events from the response. For example, if you call the DescribeEventsForOrganization operation to get all events in your organization, you might receive several page results. Specify the nextToken in the next request to return more results.

Installation

NPM
npm install @aws-sdk/client-health
Yarn
yarn add @aws-sdk/client-health
pnpm
pnpm add @aws-sdk/client-health

HealthClient Operations

Command
Summary
DescribeAffectedAccountsForOrganizationCommand

Returns a list of accounts in the organization from Organizations that are affected by the provided event. For more information about the different types of Health events, see Event .

Before you can call this operation, you must first enable Health to work with Organizations. To do this, call the EnableHealthServiceAccessForOrganization  operation from your organization's management account.

This API operation uses pagination. Specify the nextToken parameter in the next request to return more results.

DescribeAffectedEntitiesCommand

Returns a list of entities that have been affected by the specified events, based on the specified filter criteria. Entities can refer to individual customer resources, groups of customer resources, or any other construct, depending on the Amazon Web Services service. Events that have impact beyond that of the affected entities, or where the extent of impact is unknown, include at least one entity indicating this.

At least one event ARN is required.

  • This API operation uses pagination. Specify the nextToken parameter in the next request to return more results.

  • This operation supports resource-level permissions. You can use this operation to allow or deny access to specific Health events. For more information, see Resource- and action-based conditions  in the Health User Guide.

DescribeAffectedEntitiesForOrganizationCommand

Returns a list of entities that have been affected by one or more events for one or more accounts in your organization in Organizations, based on the filter criteria. Entities can refer to individual customer resources, groups of customer resources, or any other construct, depending on the Amazon Web Services service.

At least one event Amazon Resource Name (ARN) and account ID are required.

Before you can call this operation, you must first enable Health to work with Organizations. To do this, call the EnableHealthServiceAccessForOrganization  operation from your organization's management account.

  • This API operation uses pagination. Specify the nextToken parameter in the next request to return more results.

  • This operation doesn't support resource-level permissions. You can't use this operation to allow or deny access to specific Health events. For more information, see Resource- and action-based conditions  in the Health User Guide.

DescribeEntityAggregatesCommand

Returns the number of entities that are affected by each of the specified events.

DescribeEntityAggregatesForOrganizationCommand

Returns a list of entity aggregates for your Organizations that are affected by each of the specified events.

DescribeEventAggregatesCommand

Returns the number of events of each event type (issue, scheduled change, and account notification). If no filter is specified, the counts of all events in each category are returned.

This API operation uses pagination. Specify the nextToken parameter in the next request to return more results.

DescribeEventDetailsCommand

Returns detailed information about one or more specified events. Information includes standard event data (Amazon Web Services Region, service, and so on, as returned by DescribeEvents ), a detailed event description, and possible additional metadata that depends upon the nature of the event. Affected entities are not included. To retrieve the entities, use the DescribeAffectedEntities  operation.

If a specified event can't be retrieved, an error message is returned for that event.

This operation supports resource-level permissions. You can use this operation to allow or deny access to specific Health events. For more information, see Resource- and action-based conditions  in the Health User Guide.

DescribeEventDetailsForOrganizationCommand

Returns detailed information about one or more specified events for one or more Amazon Web Services accounts in your organization. This information includes standard event data (such as the Amazon Web Services Region and service), an event description, and (depending on the event) possible metadata. This operation doesn't return affected entities, such as the resources related to the event. To return affected entities, use the DescribeAffectedEntitiesForOrganization  operation.

Before you can call this operation, you must first enable Health to work with Organizations. To do this, call the EnableHealthServiceAccessForOrganization  operation from your organization's management account.

When you call the DescribeEventDetailsForOrganization operation, specify the organizationEventDetailFilters object in the request. Depending on the Health event type, note the following differences:

  • To return event details for a public event, you must specify a null value for the awsAccountId parameter. If you specify an account ID for a public event, Health returns an error message because public events aren't specific to an account.

  • To return event details for an event that is specific to an account in your organization, you must specify the awsAccountId parameter in the request. If you don't specify an account ID, Health returns an error message because the event is specific to an account in your organization.

For more information, see Event .

This operation doesn't support resource-level permissions. You can't use this operation to allow or deny access to specific Health events. For more information, see Resource- and action-based conditions  in the Health User Guide.

DescribeEventTypesCommand

Returns the event types that meet the specified filter criteria. You can use this API operation to find information about the Health event, such as the category, Amazon Web Services service, and event code. The metadata for each event appears in the EventType  object.

If you don't specify a filter criteria, the API operation returns all event types, in no particular order.

This API operation uses pagination. Specify the nextToken parameter in the next request to return more results.

DescribeEventsCommand

Returns information about events that meet the specified filter criteria. Events are returned in a summary form and do not include the detailed description, any additional metadata that depends on the event type, or any affected resources. To retrieve that information, use the DescribeEventDetails  and DescribeAffectedEntities  operations.

If no filter criteria are specified, all events are returned. Results are sorted by lastModifiedTime, starting with the most recent event.

  • When you call the DescribeEvents operation and specify an entity for the entityValues parameter, Health might return public events that aren't specific to that resource. For example, if you call DescribeEvents and specify an ID for an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance, Health might return events that aren't specific to that resource or service. To get events that are specific to a service, use the services parameter in the filter object. For more information, see Event .

  • This API operation uses pagination. Specify the nextToken parameter in the next request to return more results.

DescribeEventsForOrganizationCommand

Returns information about events across your organization in Organizations. You can use thefilters parameter to specify the events that you want to return. Events are returned in a summary form and don't include the affected accounts, detailed description, any additional metadata that depends on the event type, or any affected resources. To retrieve that information, use the following operations:

If you don't specify a filter, the DescribeEventsForOrganizations returns all events across your organization. Results are sorted by lastModifiedTime, starting with the most recent event.

For more information about the different types of Health events, see Event .

Before you can call this operation, you must first enable Health to work with Organizations. To do this, call the EnableHealthServiceAccessForOrganization  operation from your organization's management account.

This API operation uses pagination. Specify the nextToken parameter in the next request to return more results.

DescribeHealthServiceStatusForOrganizationCommand

This operation provides status information on enabling or disabling Health to work with your organization. To call this operation, you must use the organization's management account.

DisableHealthServiceAccessForOrganizationCommand

Disables Health from working with Organizations. To call this operation, you must sign in to the organization's management account. For more information, see Aggregating Health events  in the Health User Guide.

This operation doesn't remove the service-linked role from the management account in your organization. You must use the IAM console, API, or Command Line Interface (CLI) to remove the service-linked role. For more information, see Deleting a Service-Linked Role  in the IAM User Guide.

You can also disable the organizational feature by using the Organizations DisableAWSServiceAccess  API operation. After you call this operation, Health stops aggregating events for all other Amazon Web Services accounts in your organization. If you call the Health API operations for organizational view, Health returns an error. Health continues to aggregate health events for your Amazon Web Services account.

EnableHealthServiceAccessForOrganizationCommand

Enables Health to work with Organizations. You can use the organizational view feature to aggregate events from all Amazon Web Services accounts in your organization in a centralized location.

This operation also creates a service-linked role for the management account in the organization.

To call this operation, you must meet the following requirements:

  • You must have a Business, Enterprise On-Ramp, or Enterprise Support plan from Amazon Web Services Support  to use the Health API. If you call the Health API from an Amazon Web Services account that doesn't have a Business, Enterprise On-Ramp, or Enterprise Support plan, you receive a SubscriptionRequiredException error.

  • You must have permission to call this operation from the organization's management account. For example IAM policies, see Health identity-based policy examples .

If you don't have the required support plan, you can instead use the Health console to enable the organizational view feature. For more information, see Aggregating Health events  in the Health User Guide.

HealthClient Configuration

Parameter
Type
Description
defaultsMode
Optional
DefaultsMode | Provider<DefaultsMode>
The @smithy/smithy-client#DefaultsMode that will be used to determine how certain default configuration options are resolved in the SDK.
disableHostPrefix
Optional
boolean
Disable dynamically changing the endpoint of the client based on the hostPrefix trait of an operation.
extensions
Optional
RuntimeExtension[]
Optional extensions
logger
Optional
Logger
Optional logger for logging debug/info/warn/error.
maxAttempts
Optional
number | Provider<number>
Value for how many times a request will be made at most in case of retry.
profile
Optional
string
Setting a client profile is similar to setting a value for the AWS_PROFILE environment variable. Setting a profile on a client in code only affects the single client instance, unlike AWS_PROFILE.When set, and only for environments where an AWS configuration file exists, fields configurable by this file will be retrieved from the specified profile within that file. Conflicting code configuration and environment variables will still have higher priority.For client credential resolution that involves checking the AWS configuration file, the client's profile (this value) will be used unless a different profile is set in the credential provider options.
region
Optional
string | Provider<string>
The AWS region to which this client will send requests
requestHandler
Optional
__HttpHandlerUserInput
The HTTP handler to use or its constructor options. Fetch in browser and Https in Nodejs.
retryMode
Optional
string | Provider<string>
Specifies which retry algorithm to use.
useDualstackEndpoint
Optional
boolean | Provider<boolean>
Enables IPv6/IPv4 dualstack endpoint.
useFipsEndpoint
Optional
boolean | Provider<boolean>
Enables FIPS compatible endpoints.
Additional config fields are described in the full configuration type: HealthClientConfig