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GetSink

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GetSink - Amazon CloudWatch Observability Access Manager

Returns complete information about one monitoring account sink.

To use this operation, provide the sink ARN. To retrieve a list of sink ARNs, use ListSinks.

Request Syntax

POST /GetSink HTTP/1.1 Content-type: application/json { "Identifier": "string" }

URI Request Parameters

The request does not use any URI parameters.

Request Body

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

Identifier

The ARN of the sink to retrieve information for.

Type: String

Pattern: ^[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9_:\.\-\/]{0,2047}$

Required: Yes

Response Syntax

HTTP/1.1 200 Content-type: application/json { "Arn": "string", "Id": "string", "Name": "string", "Tags": { "string" : "string" } }

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

Arn

The ARN of the sink.

Type: String

Id

The random ID string that AWS generated as part of the sink ARN.

Type: String

Name

The name of the sink.

Type: String

Tags

The tags assigned to the sink.

Type: String to string map

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

InternalServiceFault

Unexpected error while processing the request. Retry the request.

HTTP Status Code: 500

InvalidParameterException

A parameter is specified incorrectly.

HTTP Status Code: 400

MissingRequiredParameterException

A required parameter is missing from the request.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceNotFoundException

The request references a resource that does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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