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DescribeDeliveries - Amazon CloudWatch Logs

DescribeDeliveries

Retrieves a list of the deliveries that have been created in the account.

A delivery is a connection between a delivery source and a delivery destination.

A delivery source represents an AWS resource that sends logs to an logs delivery destination. The destination can be CloudWatch Logs, Amazon S3, or Firehose. Only some AWS services support being configured as a delivery source. These services are listed in Enable logging from AWS services.

Request Syntax

{ "limit": number, "nextToken": "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.

limit

Optionally specify the maximum number of deliveries to return in the response.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 1. Maximum value of 50.

Required: No

nextToken

The token for the next set of items to return. The token expires after 24 hours.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1.

Required: No

Response Syntax

{ "deliveries": [ { "arn": "string", "deliveryDestinationArn": "string", "deliveryDestinationType": "string", "deliverySourceName": "string", "fieldDelimiter": "string", "id": "string", "recordFields": [ "string" ], "s3DeliveryConfiguration": { "enableHiveCompatiblePath": boolean, "suffixPath": "string" }, "tags": { "string" : "string" } } ], "nextToken": "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.

deliveries

An array of structures. Each structure contains information about one delivery in the account.

Type: Array of Delivery objects

nextToken

The token for the next set of items to return. The token expires after 24 hours.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1.

Errors

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

ServiceQuotaExceededException

This request exceeds a service quota.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ServiceUnavailableException

The service cannot complete the request.

HTTP Status Code: 500

ThrottlingException

The request was throttled because of quota limits.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ValidationException

One of the parameters for the request 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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