Metric - Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

Metric

Represents a specific metric.

Metric is a property of the MetricStat object.

Contents

MetricName

The name of the metric.

Type: String

Required: Yes

Namespace

The namespace of the metric. For more information, see the table in AWS services that publish CloudWatch metrics in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide.

Type: String

Required: Yes

Dimensions.member.N

The dimensions for the metric. For the list of available dimensions, see the AWS documentation available from the table in AWS services that publish CloudWatch metrics in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide.

Conditional: If you published your metric with dimensions, you must specify the same dimensions in your scaling policy.

Type: Array of MetricDimension objects

Required: No

See Also

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