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Manage your Amazon Location Service tracker

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Manage your Amazon Location Service tracker - Amazon Location Service
List your trackersDisconnecting a tracker from a geofence collectionGet tracker detailsDelete a tracker

You can manage your trackers using the Amazon Location console, the AWS CLI, or the Amazon Location APIs.

List your trackers

You can view your trackers list using the Amazon Location console, the AWS CLI, or the Amazon Location APIs:

Console

To view a list of existing trackers using the Amazon Location console

  1. Open the Amazon Location console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/location/.

  2. Choose Trackers from the left navigation.

  3. View a list of your tracker resources under My trackers.

API

Use the ListTrackers operation from the Amazon Location Trackers APIs.

The following example is an API request to get a list of trackers in your AWS account. 

POST /tracking/v0/list-trackers

The following is an example response for ListTrackers:

{
   "Entries": [ 
      { 
         "CreateTime": 2020-10-02T19:09:07.327Z,
         "Description": "string",
         "TrackerName": "ExampleTracker",
         "UpdateTime": 2020-10-02T19:10:07.327Z
      }
   ],
   "NextToken": "1234-5678-9012"
}
CLI

Use the list-trackers command.

The following example is an AWS CLI to get a list of trackers in your AWS account. 

aws location list-trackers
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To view a list of existing trackers using the Amazon Location console

  1. Open the Amazon Location console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/location/.

  2. Choose Trackers from the left navigation.

  3. View a list of your tracker resources under My trackers.

Disconnecting a tracker from a geofence collection

You can disconnect a tracker from a geofence collection using the Amazon Location console, the AWS CLI, or the Amazon Location APIs:

Console

To disassociate a tracker from an associated geofence collection using the Amazon Location console

  1. Open the Amazon Location console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/location/.

  2. Choose Trackers from the left navigation pane.

  3. Under My trackers, select the name link of the target tracker.

  4. Under Linked Geofence Collections, select a geofence collection with a Linked status.

  5. Choose Unlink.

API

Use the DisassociateTrackerConsumer operation from the Amazon Location Trackers APIs.

The following example is an API request to disassociate a tracker from an associated geofence collection. 

DELETE /tracking/v0/trackers/ExampleTracker/consumers/arn:aws:geo:us-west-2:123456789012:geofence-collection/ExampleCollection

The following is an example response for DisassociateTrackerConsumer: 

HTTP/1.1 200
CLI

Use the disassociate-tracker-consumer command.

The following example is an AWS CLI command to disassociate a tracker from an associated geofence collection. 

aws location disassociate-tracker-consumer \
    --consumer-arn "arn:aws:geo:us-west-2:123456789012:geofence-collection/ExampleCollection" \
    --tracker-name "ExampleTracker"
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To disassociate a tracker from an associated geofence collection using the Amazon Location console

  1. Open the Amazon Location console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/location/.

  2. Choose Trackers from the left navigation pane.

  3. Under My trackers, select the name link of the target tracker.

  4. Under Linked Geofence Collections, select a geofence collection with a Linked status.

  5. Choose Unlink.

Get tracker details

You can get details about any tracker in your AWS account by using the Amazon Location console, the AWS CLI, or the Amazon Location APIs.

Console

To view tracker details by using the Amazon Location console

  1. Open the Amazon Location console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/location/.

  2. Choose Trackers from the left navigation.

  3. Under My trackers, select the name link of the target tracker.

  4. View the tracker details under Information.

API

Use the DescribeTracker operation from the Amazon Location Tracker APIs.

The following example is an API request to get the tracker details for ExampleTracker.

GET /tracking/v0/trackers/ExampleTracker

The following is an example response for DescribeTracker:

{
   "CreateTime": 2020-10-02T19:09:07.327Z,
   "Description": "string",
   "EventBridgeEnabled": false,
   "KmsKeyId": "1234abcd-12ab-34cd-56ef-1234567890ab",
   "PositionFiltering": "TimeBased",
   "Tags": { 
      "Tag1" : "Value1" 
   },
   "TrackerArn": "arn:aws:geo:us-west-2:123456789012:tracker/ExampleTracker",
   "TrackerName": "ExampleTracker",
   "UpdateTime": 2020-10-02T19:10:07.327Z
}
CLI

Use the describe-tracker command.

The following example is an AWS CLI command to get tracker details for ExampleTracker.

aws location describe-tracker \
    --tracker-name "ExampleTracker"
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To view tracker details by using the Amazon Location console

  1. Open the Amazon Location console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/location/.

  2. Choose Trackers from the left navigation.

  3. Under My trackers, select the name link of the target tracker.

  4. View the tracker details under Information.

Delete a tracker

You can delete a tracker from your AWS account using the Amazon Location console, the AWS CLI, or the Amazon Location APIs:

Console

To delete an existing map resource using the Amazon Location console

Warning

This operation deletes the resource permanently. If the tracker resource is in use, you may encounter an error. Make sure that the target resource isn't a dependency for your applications.

  1. Open the Amazon Location console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/location/.

  2. Choose Trackers from the left navigation pane.

  3. Under My trackers, select the target tracker.

  4. Choose Delete tracker.

API

Use the DeleteTracker operation from the Amazon Location Tracker APIs.

The following example is an API request to delete the tracker ExampleTracker.

DELETE /tracking/v0/trackers/ExampleTracker

The following is an example response for DeleteTracker: 

HTTP/1.1 200
CLI

Use the delete-tracker command.

The following example is an AWS CLI command to delete the tracker ExampleTracker.

aws location delete-tracker \
    --tracker-name "ExampleTracker"
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To delete an existing map resource using the Amazon Location console

Warning

This operation deletes the resource permanently. If the tracker resource is in use, you may encounter an error. Make sure that the target resource isn't a dependency for your applications.

  1. Open the Amazon Location console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/location/.

  2. Choose Trackers from the left navigation pane.

  3. Under My trackers, select the target tracker.

  4. Choose Delete tracker.

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