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UpdateCustomMetric - AWS IoT

UpdateCustomMetric

Updates a Device Defender detect custom metric.

Requires permission to access the UpdateCustomMetric action.

Request Syntax

PATCH /custom-metric/metricName HTTP/1.1 Content-type: application/json { "displayName": "string" }

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

metricName

The name of the custom metric. Cannot be updated.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: [a-zA-Z0-9:_-]+

Required: Yes

Request Body

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

displayName

Field represents a friendly name in the console for the custom metric, it doesn't have to be unique. Don't use this name as the metric identifier in the device metric report. Can be updated.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: [\p{Graph}\x20]*

Required: Yes

Response Syntax

HTTP/1.1 200 Content-type: application/json { "creationDate": number, "displayName": "string", "lastModifiedDate": number, "metricArn": "string", "metricName": "string", "metricType": "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.

creationDate

The creation date of the custom metric in milliseconds since epoch.

Type: Timestamp

displayName

A friendly name in the console for the custom metric

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: [\p{Graph}\x20]*

lastModifiedDate

The time the custom metric was last modified in milliseconds since epoch.

Type: Timestamp

metricArn

The Amazon Resource Number (ARN) of the custom metric.

Type: String

metricName

The name of the custom metric.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: [a-zA-Z0-9:_-]+

metricType

The type of the custom metric.

Important

The type number only takes a single metric value as an input, but while submitting the metrics value in the DeviceMetrics report, it must be passed as an array with a single value.

Type: String

Valid Values: string-list | ip-address-list | number-list | number

Errors

InternalFailureException

An unexpected error has occurred.

HTTP Status Code: 500

InvalidRequestException

The request is not valid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceNotFoundException

The specified resource does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ThrottlingException

The rate exceeds the limit.

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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