AWS::AutoScaling::ScalingPolicy TargetTrackingMetricStat - AWS CloudFormation
SyntaxProperties

AWS::AutoScaling::ScalingPolicy TargetTrackingMetricStat

This structure defines the CloudWatch metric to return, along with the statistic and unit.

TargetTrackingMetricStat is a property of the TargetTrackingMetricDataQuery object.

For more information about the CloudWatch terminology below, see Amazon CloudWatch concepts in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide.

Syntax

To declare this entity in your AWS CloudFormation template, use the following syntax:

JSON

{
  "Metric" : Metric,
  "Stat" : String,
  "Unit" : String
}

YAML

  Metric: 
    Metric
  Stat: String
  Unit: String

Properties

Metric

The metric to use.

Required: Yes

Type: Metric

Update requires: No interruption

Stat

The statistic to return. It can include any CloudWatch statistic or extended statistic. For a list of valid values, see the table in Statistics in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide.

The most commonly used metric for scaling is Average.

Required: Yes

Type: String

Pattern: [\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\r\n\t]*

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 100

Update requires: No interruption

Unit

The unit to use for the returned data points. For a complete list of the units that CloudWatch supports, see the MetricDatum data type in the Amazon CloudWatch API Reference.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: No interruption