# CreateMonitoringSubscription
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Enables or disables additional Amazon CloudWatch metrics for the specified CloudFront distribution. The additional metrics incur an additional cost.

For more information, see [Viewing additional CloudFront distribution metrics](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/viewing-cloudfront-metrics.html#monitoring-console.distributions-additional) in the *Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide*.

## Request Syntax
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```
POST /2020-05-31/distributions/DistributionId/monitoring-subscription HTTP/1.1
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<MonitoringSubscription xmlns="http://cloudfront.amazonaws.com/doc/2020-05-31/">
   <RealtimeMetricsSubscriptionConfig>
      <RealtimeMetricsSubscriptionStatus>string</RealtimeMetricsSubscriptionStatus>
   </RealtimeMetricsSubscriptionConfig>
</MonitoringSubscription>
```

## URI Request Parameters
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The request does not use any URI parameters.

## Request Body
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The request accepts the following data in XML format.

 ** [MonitoringSubscription](#API_CreateMonitoringSubscription_RequestSyntax) **   <a name="cloudfront-CreateMonitoringSubscription-request-MonitoringSubscription"></a>
Root level tag for the MonitoringSubscription parameters.  
Required: Yes

 ** [RealtimeMetricsSubscriptionConfig](#API_CreateMonitoringSubscription_RequestSyntax) **   <a name="cloudfront-CreateMonitoringSubscription-request-RealtimeMetricsSubscriptionConfig"></a>
A subscription configuration for additional CloudWatch metrics.  
Type: [RealtimeMetricsSubscriptionConfig](API_RealtimeMetricsSubscriptionConfig.md) object  
Required: No

## Response Syntax
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```
HTTP/1.1 200
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<MonitoringSubscription>
   <RealtimeMetricsSubscriptionConfig>
      <RealtimeMetricsSubscriptionStatus>string</RealtimeMetricsSubscriptionStatus>
   </RealtimeMetricsSubscriptionConfig>
</MonitoringSubscription>
```

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

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

 ** [MonitoringSubscription](#API_CreateMonitoringSubscription_ResponseSyntax) **   <a name="cloudfront-CreateMonitoringSubscription-response-MonitoringSubscription"></a>
Root level tag for the MonitoringSubscription parameters.  
Required: Yes

 ** [RealtimeMetricsSubscriptionConfig](#API_CreateMonitoringSubscription_ResponseSyntax) **   <a name="cloudfront-CreateMonitoringSubscription-response-RealtimeMetricsSubscriptionConfig"></a>
A subscription configuration for additional CloudWatch metrics.  
Type: [RealtimeMetricsSubscriptionConfig](API_RealtimeMetricsSubscriptionConfig.md) object

## Errors
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For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see [Common Error Types](CommonErrors.md).

 ** AccessDenied **   
Access denied.  
HTTP Status Code: 403

 ** MonitoringSubscriptionAlreadyExists **   
A monitoring subscription already exists for the specified distribution.  
HTTP Status Code: 409

 ** NoSuchDistribution **   
The specified distribution does not exist.  
HTTP Status Code: 404

 ** UnsupportedOperation **   
This operation is not supported in this AWS Region.  
HTTP Status Code: 400

## See Also
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For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
+  [AWS Command Line Interface V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/cli2/cloudfront-2020-05-31/CreateMonitoringSubscription) 
+  [AWS SDK for .NET V4](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/DotNetSDKV4/cloudfront-2020-05-31/CreateMonitoringSubscription) 
+  [AWS SDK for C\$1\$1](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForCpp/cloudfront-2020-05-31/CreateMonitoringSubscription) 
+  [AWS SDK for Go v2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForGoV2/cloudfront-2020-05-31/CreateMonitoringSubscription) 
+  [AWS SDK for Java V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaV2/cloudfront-2020-05-31/CreateMonitoringSubscription) 
+  [AWS SDK for JavaScript V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaScriptV3/cloudfront-2020-05-31/CreateMonitoringSubscription) 
+  [AWS SDK for Kotlin](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForKotlin/cloudfront-2020-05-31/CreateMonitoringSubscription) 
+  [AWS SDK for PHP V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForPHPV3/cloudfront-2020-05-31/CreateMonitoringSubscription) 
+  [AWS SDK for Python](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/boto3/cloudfront-2020-05-31/CreateMonitoringSubscription) 
+  [AWS SDK for Ruby V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForRubyV3/cloudfront-2020-05-31/CreateMonitoringSubscription)