DescribeEventCategories
Displays a list of event categories for all event source types, or for a specified source type. For a list of the event categories and source types, go to Amazon Redshift Event Notifications.
Request Parameters
For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.
- SourceType
-
The source type, such as cluster or parameter group, to which the described event categories apply.
Valid values: cluster, cluster-snapshot, cluster-parameter-group, cluster-security-group, and scheduled-action.
Type: String
Length Constraints: Maximum length of 2147483647.
Required: No
Response Elements
The following element is returned by the service.
- EventCategoriesMapList.EventCategoriesMap.N
-
A list of event categories descriptions.
Type: Array of EventCategoriesMap objects
Errors
For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.
Examples
Example
This example illustrates one usage of DescribeEventCategories.
Sample Request
https://redshift.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/
?Action=DescribeEventCategories
&SourceType=cluster
&SignatureMethod=HmacSHA256&SignatureVersion=4
&Version=2012-12-01
&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256
&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE/20190817/us-east-2/redshift/aws4_request
&X-Amz-Date=20190825T160000Z
&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=content-type;host;user-agent;x-amz-content-sha256;x-amz-date
&X-Amz-Signature=0aa1234bb5cc678ddddd901ee2ff3aa45678b90c12d345e6ff789012345a6b7bSample Response
<DescribeEventCategoriesResponse xmlns="http://redshift.amazonaws.com/doc/2012-12-01/">
<DescribeEventCategoriesResult>
<EventCategoriesMapList>
<EventCategoriesMap>
<SourceType>cluster</SourceType>
<Events>
<EventInfoMap>
<Severity>INFO</Severity>
<EventDescription>Cluster <cluster name> created at <time in UTC>.</EventDescription>
<EventId>REDSHIFT-EVENT-2000</EventId>
<EventCategories>
<EventCategory>management</EventCategory>
</EventCategories>
</EventInfoMap>
<EventInfoMap>
<Severity>INFO</Severity>
<EventDescription>Cluster <cluster name> deleted at <time in UTC>.</EventDescription>
<EventId>REDSHIFT-EVENT-2001</EventId>
<EventCategories>
<EventCategory>management</EventCategory>
</EventCategories>
</EventInfoMap>
</Events>
</EventCategoriesMap>
</EventCategoriesMapList>
</DescribeEventCategoriesResult>
<ResponseMetadata>
<RequestId>5ad8a6a4-283f-11ea-a940-1b28a85fd753</RequestId>
</ResponseMetadata>
</DescribeEventCategoriesResponse>
See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
