# AssociateResource
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Associates a canary with a group. Using groups can help you with managing and automating your canaries, and you can also view aggregated run results and statistics for all canaries in a group. 

You must run this operation in the Region where the canary exists.

## Request Syntax
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```
PATCH /group/groupIdentifier/associate HTTP/1.1
Content-type: application/json

{
   "ResourceArn": "string"
}
```

## URI Request Parameters
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The request uses the following URI parameters.

 ** [groupIdentifier](#API_AssociateResource_RequestSyntax) **   <a name="synthetics-AssociateResource-request-uri-GroupIdentifier"></a>
Specifies the group. You can specify the group name, the ARN, or the group ID as the `GroupIdentifier`.  
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.  
Required: Yes

## Request Body
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The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

 ** [ResourceArn](#API_AssociateResource_RequestSyntax) **   <a name="synthetics-AssociateResource-request-ResourceArn"></a>
The ARN of the canary that you want to associate with the specified group.  
Type: String  
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 2048.  
Pattern: `arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:synthetics:[a-z]{2,4}(-[a-z]{2,4})?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:\d{12}:canary:[0-9a-z_\-]{1,255}`   
Required: Yes

## Response Syntax
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```
HTTP/1.1 200
```

## Response Elements
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If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response with an empty HTTP body.

## Errors
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For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see [Common Error Types](CommonErrors.md).

 ** ConflictException **   
A conflicting operation is already in progress.  
HTTP Status Code: 409

 ** InternalServerException **   
An unknown internal error occurred.  
HTTP Status Code: 500

 ** ResourceNotFoundException **   
One of the specified resources was not found.  
HTTP Status Code: 404

 ** ServiceQuotaExceededException **   
The request exceeded a service quota value.  
HTTP Status Code: 402

 ** ValidationException **   
A parameter could not be validated.  
HTTP Status Code: 400

## See Also
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For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
+  [AWS Command Line Interface V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/cli2/synthetics-2017-10-11/AssociateResource) 
+  [AWS SDK for .NET V4](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/DotNetSDKV4/synthetics-2017-10-11/AssociateResource) 
+  [AWS SDK for C\$1\$1](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForCpp/synthetics-2017-10-11/AssociateResource) 
+  [AWS SDK for Go v2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForGoV2/synthetics-2017-10-11/AssociateResource) 
+  [AWS SDK for Java V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaV2/synthetics-2017-10-11/AssociateResource) 
+  [AWS SDK for JavaScript V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaScriptV3/synthetics-2017-10-11/AssociateResource) 
+  [AWS SDK for Kotlin](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForKotlin/synthetics-2017-10-11/AssociateResource) 
+  [AWS SDK for PHP V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForPHPV3/synthetics-2017-10-11/AssociateResource) 
+  [AWS SDK for Python](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/boto3/synthetics-2017-10-11/AssociateResource) 
+  [AWS SDK for Ruby V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForRubyV3/synthetics-2017-10-11/AssociateResource)