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[ aws . autoscaling ]

describe-scheduled-actions

Description

Gets information about the scheduled actions that haven't run or that have not reached their end time.

To describe the scaling activities for scheduled actions that have already run, call the DescribeScalingActivities API.

See also: AWS API Documentation

describe-scheduled-actions is a paginated operation. Multiple API calls may be issued in order to retrieve the entire data set of results. You can disable pagination by providing the --no-paginate argument. When using --output text and the --query argument on a paginated response, the --query argument must extract data from the results of the following query expressions: ScheduledUpdateGroupActions

Synopsis

  describe-scheduled-actions
[--auto-scaling-group-name <value>]
[--scheduled-action-names <value>]
[--start-time <value>]
[--end-time <value>]
[--cli-input-json <value>]
[--starting-token <value>]
[--page-size <value>]
[--max-items <value>]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]
[--debug]
[--endpoint-url <value>]
[--no-verify-ssl]
[--no-paginate]
[--output <value>]
[--query <value>]
[--profile <value>]
[--region <value>]
[--version <value>]
[--color <value>]
[--no-sign-request]
[--ca-bundle <value>]
[--cli-read-timeout <value>]
[--cli-connect-timeout <value>]

Options

--auto-scaling-group-name (string)

The name of the Auto Scaling group.

--scheduled-action-names (list)

The names of one or more scheduled actions. If you omit this property, all scheduled actions are described. If you specify an unknown scheduled action, it is ignored with no error.

Array Members: Maximum number of 50 actions.

(string)

Syntax:

"string" "string" ...

--start-time (timestamp)

The earliest scheduled start time to return. If scheduled action names are provided, this property is ignored.

--end-time (timestamp)

The latest scheduled start time to return. If scheduled action names are provided, this property is ignored.

--cli-input-json (string) Performs service operation based on the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by --generate-cli-skeleton. If other arguments are provided on the command line, the CLI values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally.

--starting-token (string)

A token to specify where to start paginating. This is the NextToken from a previously truncated response.

For usage examples, see Pagination in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide .

--page-size (integer)

The size of each page to get in the AWS service call. This does not affect the number of items returned in the command's output. Setting a smaller page size results in more calls to the AWS service, retrieving fewer items in each call. This can help prevent the AWS service calls from timing out.

For usage examples, see Pagination in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide .

--max-items (integer)

The total number of items to return in the command's output. If the total number of items available is more than the value specified, a NextToken is provided in the command's output. To resume pagination, provide the NextToken value in the starting-token argument of a subsequent command. Do not use the NextToken response element directly outside of the AWS CLI.

For usage examples, see Pagination in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide .

--generate-cli-skeleton (string) Prints a JSON skeleton to standard output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value input, prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for --cli-input-json. If provided with the value output, it validates the command inputs and returns a sample output JSON for that command.

Global Options

--debug (boolean)

Turn on debug logging.

--endpoint-url (string)

Override command's default URL with the given URL.

--no-verify-ssl (boolean)

By default, the AWS CLI uses SSL when communicating with AWS services. For each SSL connection, the AWS CLI will verify SSL certificates. This option overrides the default behavior of verifying SSL certificates.

--no-paginate (boolean)

Disable automatic pagination.

--output (string)

The formatting style for command output.

  • json
  • text
  • table

--query (string)

A JMESPath query to use in filtering the response data.

--profile (string)

Use a specific profile from your credential file.

--region (string)

The region to use. Overrides config/env settings.

--version (string)

Display the version of this tool.

--color (string)

Turn on/off color output.

  • on
  • off
  • auto

--no-sign-request (boolean)

Do not sign requests. Credentials will not be loaded if this argument is provided.

--ca-bundle (string)

The CA certificate bundle to use when verifying SSL certificates. Overrides config/env settings.

--cli-read-timeout (int)

The maximum socket read time in seconds. If the value is set to 0, the socket read will be blocking and not timeout. The default value is 60 seconds.

--cli-connect-timeout (int)

The maximum socket connect time in seconds. If the value is set to 0, the socket connect will be blocking and not timeout. The default value is 60 seconds.

Examples

Note

To use the following examples, you must have the AWS CLI installed and configured. See the Getting started guide in the AWS CLI User Guide for more information.

Unless otherwise stated, all examples have unix-like quotation rules. These examples will need to be adapted to your terminal's quoting rules. See Using quotation marks with strings in the AWS CLI User Guide .

Example 1: To describe all scheduled actions

This example describes all your scheduled actions.

aws autoscaling describe-scheduled-actions

Output:

{
    "ScheduledUpdateGroupActions": [
        {
            "AutoScalingGroupName": "my-asg",
            "ScheduledActionName": "my-recurring-action",
            "Recurrence": "30 0 1 1,6,12 *",
            "ScheduledActionARN": "arn:aws:autoscaling:us-west-2:123456789012:scheduledUpdateGroupAction:8e86b655-b2e6-4410-8f29-b4f094d6871c:autoScalingGroupName/my-asg:scheduledActionName/my-recurring-action",
            "StartTime": "2023-12-01T04:00:00Z",
            "Time": "2023-12-01T04:00:00Z",
            "MinSize": 1,
            "MaxSize": 6,
            "DesiredCapacity": 4,
            "TimeZone": "America/New_York"
        }
    ]
}

For more information, see Scheduled scaling in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide.

Example 2: To describe scheduled actions for the specified group

To describe the scheduled actions for a specific Auto Scaling group, use the --auto-scaling-group-name option.

aws autoscaling describe-scheduled-actions \
    --auto-scaling-group-name my-asg

Output:

{
    "ScheduledUpdateGroupActions": [
        {
            "AutoScalingGroupName": "my-asg",
            "ScheduledActionName": "my-recurring-action",
            "Recurrence": "30 0 1 1,6,12 *",
            "ScheduledActionARN": "arn:aws:autoscaling:us-west-2:123456789012:scheduledUpdateGroupAction:8e86b655-b2e6-4410-8f29-b4f094d6871c:autoScalingGroupName/my-asg:scheduledActionName/my-recurring-action",
            "StartTime": "2023-12-01T04:00:00Z",
            "Time": "2023-12-01T04:00:00Z",
            "MinSize": 1,
            "MaxSize": 6,
            "DesiredCapacity": 4,
            "TimeZone": "America/New_York"
        }
    ]
}

For more information, see Scheduled scaling in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide.

Example 3: To describe the specified scheduled action

To describe a specific scheduled action, use the --scheduled-action-names option.

aws autoscaling describe-scheduled-actions \
    --scheduled-action-names my-recurring-action

Output:

{
    "ScheduledUpdateGroupActions": [
        {
            "AutoScalingGroupName": "my-asg",
            "ScheduledActionName": "my-recurring-action",
            "Recurrence": "30 0 1 1,6,12 *",
            "ScheduledActionARN": "arn:aws:autoscaling:us-west-2:123456789012:scheduledUpdateGroupAction:8e86b655-b2e6-4410-8f29-b4f094d6871c:autoScalingGroupName/my-asg:scheduledActionName/my-recurring-action",
            "StartTime": "2023-12-01T04:00:00Z",
            "Time": "2023-12-01T04:00:00Z",
            "MinSize": 1,
            "MaxSize": 6,
            "DesiredCapacity": 4,
            "TimeZone": "America/New_York"
        }
    ]
}

For more information, see Scheduled scaling in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide.

Example 4: To describe scheduled actions with a specified start time

To describe the scheduled actions that start at a specific time, use the --start-time option.

aws autoscaling describe-scheduled-actions \
    --start-time "2023-12-01T04:00:00Z"

Output:

{
    "ScheduledUpdateGroupActions": [
        {
            "AutoScalingGroupName": "my-asg",
            "ScheduledActionName": "my-recurring-action",
            "Recurrence": "30 0 1 1,6,12 *",
            "ScheduledActionARN": "arn:aws:autoscaling:us-west-2:123456789012:scheduledUpdateGroupAction:8e86b655-b2e6-4410-8f29-b4f094d6871c:autoScalingGroupName/my-asg:scheduledActionName/my-recurring-action",
            "StartTime": "2023-12-01T04:00:00Z",
            "Time": "2023-12-01T04:00:00Z",
            "MinSize": 1,
            "MaxSize": 6,
            "DesiredCapacity": 4,
            "TimeZone": "America/New_York"
        }
    ]
}

For more information, see Scheduled scaling in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide.

Example 5: To describe scheduled actions that end at a specified time

To describe the scheduled actions that end at a specific time, use the --end-time option.

aws autoscaling describe-scheduled-actions \
    --end-time "2023-12-01T04:00:00Z"

Output:

{
    "ScheduledUpdateGroupActions": [
        {
            "AutoScalingGroupName": "my-asg",
            "ScheduledActionName": "my-recurring-action",
            "Recurrence": "30 0 1 1,6,12 *",
            "ScheduledActionARN": "arn:aws:autoscaling:us-west-2:123456789012:scheduledUpdateGroupAction:8e86b655-b2e6-4410-8f29-b4f094d6871c:autoScalingGroupName/my-asg:scheduledActionName/my-recurring-action",
            "StartTime": "2023-12-01T04:00:00Z",
            "Time": "2023-12-01T04:00:00Z",
            "MinSize": 1,
            "MaxSize": 6,
            "DesiredCapacity": 4,
            "TimeZone": "America/New_York"
        }
    ]
}

For more information, see Scheduled scaling in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide.

Example 6: To describe a specified number of scheduled actions

To return a specific number of scheduled actions, use the --max-items option.

aws autoscaling describe-scheduled-actions \
    --auto-scaling-group-name my-asg \
    --max-items 1

Output:

{
    "ScheduledUpdateGroupActions": [
        {
            "AutoScalingGroupName": "my-asg",
            "ScheduledActionName": "my-recurring-action",
            "Recurrence": "30 0 1 1,6,12 *",
            "ScheduledActionARN": "arn:aws:autoscaling:us-west-2:123456789012:scheduledUpdateGroupAction:8e86b655-b2e6-4410-8f29-b4f094d6871c:autoScalingGroupName/my-asg:scheduledActionName/my-recurring-action",
            "StartTime": "2023-12-01T04:00:00Z",
            "Time": "2023-12-01T04:00:00Z",
            "MinSize": 1,
            "MaxSize": 6,
            "DesiredCapacity": 4,
            "TimeZone": "America/New_York"
        }
    ]
}

If the output includes a NextToken field, there are more scheduled actions. To get the additional scheduled actions, use the value of this field with the --starting-token option in a subsequent call as follows.

aws autoscaling describe-scheduled-actions \
    --auto-scaling-group-name my-asg \
    --starting-token Z3M3LMPEXAMPLE

For more information, see Scheduled scaling in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide.

Output

ScheduledUpdateGroupActions -> (list)

The scheduled actions.

(structure)

Describes a scheduled scaling action.

AutoScalingGroupName -> (string)

The name of the Auto Scaling group.

ScheduledActionName -> (string)

The name of the scheduled action.

ScheduledActionARN -> (string)

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the scheduled action.

Time -> (timestamp)

This property is no longer used.

StartTime -> (timestamp)

The date and time in UTC for this action to start. For example, "2019-06-01T00:00:00Z" .

EndTime -> (timestamp)

The date and time in UTC for the recurring schedule to end. For example, "2019-06-01T00:00:00Z" .

Recurrence -> (string)

The recurring schedule for the action, in Unix cron syntax format.

When StartTime and EndTime are specified with Recurrence , they form the boundaries of when the recurring action starts and stops.

MinSize -> (integer)

The minimum size of the Auto Scaling group.

MaxSize -> (integer)

The maximum size of the Auto Scaling group.

DesiredCapacity -> (integer)

The desired capacity is the initial capacity of the Auto Scaling group after the scheduled action runs and the capacity it attempts to maintain.

TimeZone -> (string)

The time zone for the cron expression.

NextToken -> (string)

A string that indicates that the response contains more items than can be returned in a single response. To receive additional items, specify this string for the NextToken value when requesting the next set of items. This value is null when there are no more items to return.