EventBridge examples using AWS CLI

To delete a CloudWatch Events rule

This example deletes the rule named EC2InstanceStateChanges:

aws events delete-rule --name "EC2InstanceStateChanges"

To display information about a CloudWatch Events rule

This example displays information about the rule named DailyLambdaFunction:

aws events describe-rule --name "DailyLambdaFunction"

To disable a CloudWatch Events rule

This example disables the rule named DailyLambdaFunction. The rule is not deleted:

aws events disable-rule --name "DailyLambdaFunction"

To enable a CloudWatch Events rule

This example enables the rule named DailyLambdaFunction, which had been previously disabled:

aws events enable-rule --name "DailyLambdaFunction"

To display all the rules that have a specified target

This example displays all rules that have the Lambda function named "MyFunctionName" as the target:

aws events list-rule-names-by-target --target-arn "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-1:123456789012:function:MyFunctionName"

To display a list of all CloudWatch Events rules

This example displays all CloudWatch Events rules in the region:

aws events list-rules

To display a list of CloudWatch Events rules beginning with a certain string.

This example displays all CloudWatch Events rules in the region that have a name starting with "Daily":

aws events list-rules --name-prefix "Daily"

To display all the targets for a CloudWatch Events rule

This example displays all the targets of the rule named DailyLambdaFunction:

aws events list-targets-by-rule --rule  "DailyLambdaFunction"

To send a custom event to CloudWatch Events

This example sends a custom event to CloudWatch Events. The event is contained within the putevents.json file:

aws events put-events --entries file://putevents.json

Here are the contents of the putevents.json file:

[
  {
    "Source": "com.mycompany.myapp",
    "Detail": "{ \"key1\": \"value1\", \"key2\": \"value2\" }",
    "Resources": [
      "resource1",
      "resource2"
    ],
    "DetailType": "myDetailType"
  },
  {
    "Source": "com.mycompany.myapp",
    "Detail": "{ \"key1\": \"value3\", \"key2\": \"value4\" }",
    "Resources": [
      "resource1",
      "resource2"
    ],
    "DetailType": "myDetailType"
   }
]

To create CloudWatch Events rules

This example creates a rule that triggers every day at 9:00am (UTC). If you use put-targets to add a Lambda function as a target of this rule, you could run the Lambda function every day at the specified time:

aws events put-rule --name "DailyLambdaFunction" --schedule-expression "cron(0 9 * * ? *)"

This example creates a rule that triggers when any EC2 instance in the region changes state:

aws events put-rule --name "EC2InstanceStateChanges" --event-pattern "{\"source\":[\"aws.ec2\"],\"detail-type\":[\"EC2 Instance State-change Notification\"]}"  --role-arn "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/MyRoleForThisRule"

This example creates a rule that triggers when any EC2 instance in the region is stopped or terminated:

aws events put-rule --name "EC2InstanceStateChangeStopOrTerminate" --event-pattern "{\"source\":[\"aws.ec2\"],\"detail-type\":[\"EC2 Instance State-change Notification\"],\"detail\":{\"state\":[\"stopped\",\"terminated\"]}}" --role-arn "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/MyRoleForThisRule"

To add targets for CloudWatch Events rules

This example adds a Lambda function as the target of a rule:

aws events put-targets --rule DailyLambdaFunction --targets "Id"="1","Arn"="arn:aws:lambda:us-east-1:123456789012:function:MyFunctionName"

This example sets an Amazon Kinesis stream as the target, so that events caught by this rule are relayed to the stream:

aws events put-targets --rule EC2InstanceStateChanges --targets "Id"="1","Arn"="arn:aws:kinesis:us-east-1:123456789012:stream/MyStream","RoleArn"="arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/MyRoleForThisRule"

This example sets two Amazon Kinesis streams as targets for one rule:

aws events put-targets --rule DailyLambdaFunction --targets "Id"="Target1","Arn"="arn:aws:kinesis:us-east-1:379642911888:stream/MyStream1","RoleArn"="arn:aws:iam::379642911888:role/ MyRoleToAccessLambda"  "Id"="Target2"," Arn"="arn:aws:kinesis:us-east-1:379642911888:stream/MyStream2","RoleArn"="arn:aws:iam::379642911888:role/MyRoleToAccessLambda"

To remove a target for an event

This example removes the Amazon Kinesis stream named MyStream1 from being a target of the rule DailyLambdaFunction. When DailyLambdaFunction was created, this stream was set as a target with an ID of Target1:

aws events remove-targets --rule "DailyLambdaFunction" --ids "Target1"

To check whether an event pattern matches a specified event

This example tests whether the pattern "source:com.mycompany.myapp" matches the specified event. In this example, the output would be "true":

aws events test-event-pattern --event-pattern "{\"source\":[\"com.mycompany.myapp\"]}" --event "{\"id\":\"1\",\"source\":\"com.mycompany.myapp\",\"detail-type\":\"myDetailType\",\"account\":\"123456789012\",\"region\":\"us-east-1\",\"time\":\"2017-04-11T20:11:04Z\"}"