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MetricStat - Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

MetricStat

This structure defines the CloudWatch metric to return, along with the statistic and unit.

MetricStat is a property of the MetricDataQuery object.

For more information about the CloudWatch terminology below, see Amazon CloudWatch concepts in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide.

Contents

Metric

The CloudWatch metric to return, including the metric name, namespace, and dimensions. To get the exact metric name, namespace, and dimensions, inspect the Metric object that is returned by a call to ListMetrics.

Type: Metric object

Required: Yes

Stat

The statistic to return. It can include any CloudWatch statistic or extended statistic. For a list of valid values, see the table in Statistics in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide.

The most commonly used metrics for predictive scaling are Average and Sum.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 100.

Pattern: [\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\r\n\t]*

Required: Yes

Unit

The unit to use for the returned data points. For a complete list of the units that CloudWatch supports, see the MetricDatum data type in the Amazon CloudWatch API Reference.

Type: String

Required: No

See Also

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

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