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Use DescribeScheduledActions with a CLI

The following code examples show how to use DescribeScheduledActions.

CLI
AWS CLI

Example 1: To describe all scheduled actions

This example describes all your scheduled actions.

aws autoscaling describe-scheduled-actions

Output:

{
    "ScheduledUpdateGroupActions": [
        {
            "AutoScalingGroupName": "my-asg",
            "ScheduledActionName": "my-recurring-action",
            "Recurrence": "30 0 1 1,6,12 *",
            "ScheduledActionARN": "arn:aws:autoscaling:us-west-2:123456789012:scheduledUpdateGroupAction:8e86b655-b2e6-4410-8f29-b4f094d6871c:autoScalingGroupName/my-asg:scheduledActionName/my-recurring-action",
            "StartTime": "2023-12-01T04:00:00Z",
            "Time": "2023-12-01T04:00:00Z",
            "MinSize": 1,
            "MaxSize": 6,
            "DesiredCapacity": 4,
            "TimeZone": "America/New_York"
        }
    ]
}

For more information, see Scheduled scaling in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide.

Example 2: To describe scheduled actions for the specified group

To describe the scheduled actions for a specific Auto Scaling group, use the --auto-scaling-group-name option.

aws autoscaling describe-scheduled-actions \
    --auto-scaling-group-name my-asg

Output:

{
    "ScheduledUpdateGroupActions": [
        {
            "AutoScalingGroupName": "my-asg",
            "ScheduledActionName": "my-recurring-action",
            "Recurrence": "30 0 1 1,6,12 *",
            "ScheduledActionARN": "arn:aws:autoscaling:us-west-2:123456789012:scheduledUpdateGroupAction:8e86b655-b2e6-4410-8f29-b4f094d6871c:autoScalingGroupName/my-asg:scheduledActionName/my-recurring-action",
            "StartTime": "2023-12-01T04:00:00Z",
            "Time": "2023-12-01T04:00:00Z",
            "MinSize": 1,
            "MaxSize": 6,
            "DesiredCapacity": 4,
            "TimeZone": "America/New_York"
        }
    ]
}

For more information, see Scheduled scaling in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide.

Example 3: To describe the specified scheduled action

To describe a specific scheduled action, use the --scheduled-action-names option.

aws autoscaling describe-scheduled-actions \
    --scheduled-action-names my-recurring-action

Output:

{
    "ScheduledUpdateGroupActions": [
        {
            "AutoScalingGroupName": "my-asg",
            "ScheduledActionName": "my-recurring-action",
            "Recurrence": "30 0 1 1,6,12 *",
            "ScheduledActionARN": "arn:aws:autoscaling:us-west-2:123456789012:scheduledUpdateGroupAction:8e86b655-b2e6-4410-8f29-b4f094d6871c:autoScalingGroupName/my-asg:scheduledActionName/my-recurring-action",
            "StartTime": "2023-12-01T04:00:00Z",
            "Time": "2023-12-01T04:00:00Z",
            "MinSize": 1,
            "MaxSize": 6,
            "DesiredCapacity": 4,
            "TimeZone": "America/New_York"
        }
    ]
}

For more information, see Scheduled scaling in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide.

Example 4: To describe scheduled actions with a specified start time

To describe the scheduled actions that start at a specific time, use the --start-time option.

aws autoscaling describe-scheduled-actions \
    --start-time "2023-12-01T04:00:00Z"

Output:

{
    "ScheduledUpdateGroupActions": [
        {
            "AutoScalingGroupName": "my-asg",
            "ScheduledActionName": "my-recurring-action",
            "Recurrence": "30 0 1 1,6,12 *",
            "ScheduledActionARN": "arn:aws:autoscaling:us-west-2:123456789012:scheduledUpdateGroupAction:8e86b655-b2e6-4410-8f29-b4f094d6871c:autoScalingGroupName/my-asg:scheduledActionName/my-recurring-action",
            "StartTime": "2023-12-01T04:00:00Z",
            "Time": "2023-12-01T04:00:00Z",
            "MinSize": 1,
            "MaxSize": 6,
            "DesiredCapacity": 4,
            "TimeZone": "America/New_York"
        }
    ]
}

For more information, see Scheduled scaling in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide.

Example 5: To describe scheduled actions that end at a specified time

To describe the scheduled actions that end at a specific time, use the --end-time option.

aws autoscaling describe-scheduled-actions \
    --end-time "2023-12-01T04:00:00Z"

Output:

{
    "ScheduledUpdateGroupActions": [
        {
            "AutoScalingGroupName": "my-asg",
            "ScheduledActionName": "my-recurring-action",
            "Recurrence": "30 0 1 1,6,12 *",
            "ScheduledActionARN": "arn:aws:autoscaling:us-west-2:123456789012:scheduledUpdateGroupAction:8e86b655-b2e6-4410-8f29-b4f094d6871c:autoScalingGroupName/my-asg:scheduledActionName/my-recurring-action",
            "StartTime": "2023-12-01T04:00:00Z",
            "Time": "2023-12-01T04:00:00Z",
            "MinSize": 1,
            "MaxSize": 6,
            "DesiredCapacity": 4,
            "TimeZone": "America/New_York"
        }
    ]
}

For more information, see Scheduled scaling in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide.

Example 6: To describe a specified number of scheduled actions

To return a specific number of scheduled actions, use the --max-items option.

aws autoscaling describe-scheduled-actions \
    --auto-scaling-group-name my-asg \
    --max-items 1

Output:

{
    "ScheduledUpdateGroupActions": [
        {
            "AutoScalingGroupName": "my-asg",
            "ScheduledActionName": "my-recurring-action",
            "Recurrence": "30 0 1 1,6,12 *",
            "ScheduledActionARN": "arn:aws:autoscaling:us-west-2:123456789012:scheduledUpdateGroupAction:8e86b655-b2e6-4410-8f29-b4f094d6871c:autoScalingGroupName/my-asg:scheduledActionName/my-recurring-action",
            "StartTime": "2023-12-01T04:00:00Z",
            "Time": "2023-12-01T04:00:00Z",
            "MinSize": 1,
            "MaxSize": 6,
            "DesiredCapacity": 4,
            "TimeZone": "America/New_York"
        }
    ]
}

If the output includes a NextToken field, there are more scheduled actions. To get the additional scheduled actions, use the value of this field with the --starting-token option in a subsequent call as follows.

aws autoscaling describe-scheduled-actions \
    --auto-scaling-group-name my-asg \
    --starting-token Z3M3LMPEXAMPLE

For more information, see Scheduled scaling in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide.

PowerShell
Tools for PowerShell

Example 1: This example describes the scheduled scaling actions for the specified Auto Scaling group.

Get-ASScheduledAction -AutoScalingGroupName my-asg

Output:

AutoScalingGroupName : my-asg
DesiredCapacity      : 10
EndTime              : 
MaxSize              : 
MinSize              : 
Recurrence           :
ScheduledActionARN   : arn:aws:autoscaling:us-west-2:123456789012:scheduledUpdateGroupAction:8a4c5f24-6ec6-4306-a2dd-f7
                       2c3af3a4d6:autoScalingGroupName/my-asg:scheduledActionName/myScheduledAction
ScheduledActionName  : myScheduledAction
StartTime            : 11/30/2015 8:00:00 AM
Time                 : 11/30/2015 8:00:00 AM

Example 2: This example describes the specified scheduled scaling actions.

Get-ASScheduledAction -ScheduledActionName @("myScheduledScaleOut", "myScheduledScaleIn")

Example 3: This example describes the scheduled scaling actions that start by the specified time.

Get-ASScheduledAction -StartTime "2015-12-01T08:00:00Z"

Example 4: This example describes the scheduled scaling actions that end by the specified time.

Get-ASScheduledAction -EndTime "2015-12-30T08:00:00Z"

Example 5: This example describes the scheduled scaling actions for all your Auto Scaling groups.

Get-ASScheduledAction