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DescribeComponent - Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights

DescribeComponent

Describes a component and lists the resources that are grouped together in a component.

Request Syntax

{ "AccountId": "string", "ComponentName": "string", "ResourceGroupName": "string" }

Request Parameters

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

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

AccountId

The AWS account ID for the resource group owner.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Fixed length of 12.

Pattern: ^\d{12}$

Required: No

ComponentName

The name of the component.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1011.

Pattern: (?:^[\d\w\-_\.+]*$)|(?:^arn:aws(-\w+)*:[\w\d-]+:([\w\d-]*)?:[\w\d_-]*([:/].+)*$)

Required: Yes

ResourceGroupName

The name of the resource group.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 256.

Pattern: [a-zA-Z0-9\.\-_]*

Required: Yes

Response Syntax

{ "ApplicationComponent": { "ComponentName": "string", "ComponentRemarks": "string", "DetectedWorkload": { "string" : { "string" : "string" } }, "Monitor": boolean, "OsType": "string", "ResourceType": "string", "Tier": "string" }, "ResourceList": [ "string" ] }

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

ApplicationComponent

Describes a standalone resource or similarly grouped resources that the application is made up of.

Type: ApplicationComponent object

ResourceList

The list of resource ARNs that belong to the component.

Type: Array of strings

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1011.

Pattern: ^arn:aws(-\w+)*:[\w\d-]+:([\w\d-]*)?:[\w\d_-]*([:/].+)*$

Errors

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

InternalServerException

The server encountered an internal error and is unable to complete the request.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource does not exist in the customer account.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ValidationException

The parameter is not valid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

See Also

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

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