Request Parameters Response Elements Errors See Also

CreateEventSubscription

Creates an event notification subscription. This action requires a topic ARN (Amazon Resource Name) created by either the Neptune console, the SNS console, or the SNS API. To obtain an ARN with SNS, you must create a topic in Amazon SNS and subscribe to the topic. The ARN is displayed in the SNS console.

You can specify the type of source (SourceType) you want to be notified of, provide a list of Neptune sources (SourceIds) that triggers the events, and provide a list of event categories (EventCategories) for events you want to be notified of. For example, you can specify SourceType = db-instance, SourceIds = mydbinstance1, mydbinstance2 and EventCategories = Availability, Backup.

If you specify both the SourceType and SourceIds, such as SourceType = db-instance and SourceIdentifier = myDBInstance1, you are notified of all the db-instance events for the specified source. If you specify a SourceType but do not specify a SourceIdentifier, you receive notice of the events for that source type for all your Neptune sources. If you do not specify either the SourceType nor the SourceIdentifier, you are notified of events generated from all Neptune sources belonging to your customer account.

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

Enabled

A Boolean value; set to true to activate the subscription, set to false to create the subscription but not active it.

Type: Boolean

Required: No

EventCategories.EventCategory.N

A list of event categories for a SourceType that you want to subscribe to. You can see a list of the categories for a given SourceType by using the DescribeEventCategories action.

Type: Array of strings

Required: No

SnsTopicArn

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the SNS topic created for event notification. The ARN is created by Amazon SNS when you create a topic and subscribe to it.

Type: String

Required: Yes

SourceIds.SourceId.N

The list of identifiers of the event sources for which events are returned. If not specified, then all sources are included in the response. An identifier must begin with a letter and must contain only ASCII letters, digits, and hyphens; it can't end with a hyphen or contain two consecutive hyphens.

Constraints:

If SourceIds are supplied, SourceType must also be provided.
If the source type is a DB instance, then a DBInstanceIdentifier must be supplied.
If the source type is a DB security group, a DBSecurityGroupName must be supplied.
If the source type is a DB parameter group, a DBParameterGroupName must be supplied.
If the source type is a DB snapshot, a DBSnapshotIdentifier must be supplied.

Type: Array of strings

Required: No

SourceType

The type of source that is generating the events. For example, if you want to be notified of events generated by a DB instance, you would set this parameter to db-instance. if this value is not specified, all events are returned.

Type: String

Required: No

SubscriptionName

The name of the subscription.

Constraints: The name must be less than 255 characters.

Type: String

Required: Yes

Tags.Tag.N

The tags to be applied to the new event subscription.

Type: Array of Tag objects

Required: No

Response Elements

The following element is returned by the service.

EventSubscription

Contains the results of a successful invocation of the DescribeEventSubscriptions action.

Type: EventSubscription object

Errors

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

EventSubscriptionQuotaExceeded

You have exceeded the number of events you can subscribe to.

HTTP Status Code: 400

SNSInvalidTopic

The SNS topic is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

SNSNoAuthorization

There is no SNS authorization.

HTTP Status Code: 400

SNSTopicArnNotFound

The ARN of the SNS topic could not be found.

HTTP Status Code: 404

SourceNotFound

The source could not be found.

HTTP Status Code: 404

SubscriptionAlreadyExist

This subscription already exists.

HTTP Status Code: 400

SubscriptionCategoryNotFound

The designated subscription category could not be found.

HTTP Status Code: 404