CreateEventSubscription - Amazon Relational Database Service
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CreateEventSubscription

Creates an RDS event notification subscription. This operation requires a topic Amazon Resource Name (ARN) created by either the RDS console, the SNS console, or the SNS API. To obtain an ARN with SNS, you must create a topic in Amazon SNS and subscribe to the topic. The ARN is displayed in the SNS console.

You can specify the type of source (SourceType) that you want to be notified of and provide a list of RDS sources (SourceIds) that triggers the events. You can also provide a list of event categories (EventCategories) for events that you want to be notified of. For example, you can specify SourceType = db-instance, SourceIds = mydbinstance1, mydbinstance2 and EventCategories = Availability, Backup.

If you specify both the SourceType and SourceIds, such as SourceType = db-instance and SourceIds = myDBInstance1, you are notified of all the db-instance events for the specified source. If you specify a SourceType but do not specify SourceIds, you receive notice of the events for that source type for all your RDS sources. If you don't specify either the SourceType or the SourceIds, you are notified of events generated from all RDS sources belonging to your customer account.

For more information about subscribing to an event for RDS DB engines, see Subscribing to Amazon RDS event notification in the Amazon RDS User Guide.

For more information about subscribing to an event for Aurora DB engines, see Subscribing to Amazon RDS event notification in the Amazon Aurora User Guide.

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

SnsTopicArn

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the SNS topic created for event notification. SNS automatically creates the ARN when you create a topic and subscribe to it.

Note

RDS doesn't support FIFO (first in, first out) topics. For more information, see Message ordering and deduplication (FIFO topics) in the Amazon Simple Notification Service Developer Guide.

Type: String

Required: Yes

SubscriptionName

The name of the subscription.

Constraints: The name must be less than 255 characters.

Type: String

Required: Yes

Enabled

Specifies whether to activate the subscription. If the event notification subscription isn't activated, the subscription is created but not active.

Type: Boolean

Required: No

EventCategories.EventCategory.N

A list of event categories for a particular source type (SourceType) that you want to subscribe to. You can see a list of the categories for a given source type in the "Amazon RDS event categories and event messages" section of the Amazon RDS User Guide or the Amazon Aurora User Guide. You can also see this list by using the DescribeEventCategories operation.

Type: Array of strings

Required: No

SourceIds.SourceId.N

The list of identifiers of the event sources for which events are returned. If not specified, then all sources are included in the response. An identifier must begin with a letter and must contain only ASCII letters, digits, and hyphens. It can't end with a hyphen or contain two consecutive hyphens.

Constraints:

  • If SourceIds are supplied, SourceType must also be provided.

  • If the source type is a DB instance, a DBInstanceIdentifier value must be supplied.

  • If the source type is a DB cluster, a DBClusterIdentifier value must be supplied.

  • If the source type is a DB parameter group, a DBParameterGroupName value must be supplied.

  • If the source type is a DB security group, a DBSecurityGroupName value must be supplied.

  • If the source type is a DB snapshot, a DBSnapshotIdentifier value must be supplied.

  • If the source type is a DB cluster snapshot, a DBClusterSnapshotIdentifier value must be supplied.

  • If the source type is an RDS Proxy, a DBProxyName value must be supplied.

Type: Array of strings

Required: No

SourceType

The type of source that is generating the events. For example, if you want to be notified of events generated by a DB instance, you set this parameter to db-instance. For RDS Proxy events, specify db-proxy. If this value isn't specified, all events are returned.

Valid Values: db-instance | db-cluster | db-parameter-group | db-security-group | db-snapshot | db-cluster-snapshot | db-proxy

Type: String

Required: No

Tags.Tag.N

A list of tags. For more information, see Tagging Amazon RDS Resources in the Amazon RDS User Guide.

Type: Array of Tag objects

Required: No

Response Elements

The following element is returned by the service.

EventSubscription

Contains the results of a successful invocation of the DescribeEventSubscriptions action.

Type: EventSubscription object

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

EventSubscriptionQuotaExceeded

You have reached the maximum number of event subscriptions.

HTTP Status Code: 400

SNSInvalidTopic

SNS has responded that there is a problem with the SNS topic specified.

HTTP Status Code: 400

SNSNoAuthorization

You do not have permission to publish to the SNS topic ARN.

HTTP Status Code: 400

SNSTopicArnNotFound

The SNS topic ARN does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

SourceNotFound

The requested source could not be found.

HTTP Status Code: 404

SubscriptionAlreadyExist

The supplied subscription name already exists.

HTTP Status Code: 400

SubscriptionCategoryNotFound

The supplied category does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

Examples

Example

This example illustrates one usage of CreateEventSubscription.

Sample Request

https://rds.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ ?Action=CreateEventSubscription &Enabled=true &EventCategories.member.1=failure &EventCategories.member.2=configuration%20change &SignatureMethod=HmacSHA256 &SignatureVersion=4 &SnsTopicArn=arn%3Aaws%3Asns%3Aus-east-1%3A802#########%3Amytopic &SourceType=db-security-group &SubscriptionName=myawsuser-secgrp &Version=2014-10-31 &X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 &X-Amz-Credential=AKIADQKE4SARGYLE/20140425/us-east-1/rds/aws4_request &X-Amz-Date=20140425T214325Z &X-Amz-SignedHeaders=content-type;host;user-agent;x-amz-content-sha256;x-amz-date &X-Amz-Signature=7045960f6ab15609571fb05278004256e186b7633ab2a3ae46826d7713e0b461

Sample Response

<CreateEventSubscriptionResponse xmlns="http://rds.amazonaws.com/doc/2014-10-31/"> <CreateEventSubscriptionResult> <EventSubscription> <SourceType>db-security-group</SourceType> <Enabled>true</Enabled> <CustomerAwsId>803#########</CustomerAwsId> <Status>creating</Status> <SubscriptionCreationTime>Fri Apr 25 21:43:25 UTC 2014</SubscriptionCreationTime> <EventCategoriesList> <EventCategory>configuration change</EventCategory> <EventCategory>failure</EventCategory> </EventCategoriesList> <CustSubscriptionId>myawsuser-secgrp</CustSubscriptionId> <SnsTopicArn>arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:802#########:mytopic</SnsTopicArn> </EventSubscription> </CreateEventSubscriptionResult> <ResponseMetadata> <RequestId>f15e9dc3-bbb1-11d3-f4c6-37db295f7674</RequestId> </ResponseMetadata> </CreateEventSubscriptionResponse>

Example

This example illustrates one usage of CreateEventSubscription.

Sample Request

https://rds.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ ?Action=CreateEventSubscription &Enabled=true &EventCategories.member.1=creation &EventCategories.member.2=deletion &EventCategories.member.3=failover &SignatureMethod=HmacSHA256 &SignatureVersion=4 &SnsTopicArn=arn%3Aaws%3Asns%3Aus-east-1%3A802#########%3Amytopic &SourceType=db-instance &SubscriptionName=myawsuser-inst &Version=2014-10-31 &X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 &X-Amz-Credential=AKIADQKE4SARGYLE/20140429/us-east-1/rds/aws4_request &X-Amz-Date=20140429T184410Z &X-Amz-SignedHeaders=content-type;host;user-agent;x-amz-content-sha256;x-amz-date &X-Amz-Signature=1e1879f20ef3aec07135d69cc192426bf1cc5c42fc9d1acc7726bcd93155fb71

Sample Response

<CreateEventSubscriptionResponse xmlns="http://rds.amazonaws.com/doc/2014-10-31/"> <CreateEventSubscriptionResult> <EventSubscription> <SourceType>db-instance</SourceType> <Enabled>true</Enabled> <CustomerAwsId>803#########</CustomerAwsId> <Status>creating</Status> <SubscriptionCreationTime>Tue Apr 29 18:44:10 UTC 2014</SubscriptionCreationTime> <EventCategoriesList> <EventCategory>creation</EventCategory> <EventCategory>deletion</EventCategory> <EventCategory>failover</EventCategory> </EventCategoriesList> <CustSubscriptionId>myawsuser-inst</CustSubscriptionId> <SnsTopicArn>arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:802#########:mytopic</SnsTopicArn> </EventSubscription> </CreateEventSubscriptionResult> <ResponseMetadata> <RequestId>30feb307-bebd-11d3-f4c6-37db295f7674</RequestId> </ResponseMetadata> </CreateEventSubscriptionResponse>

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific Amazon SDKs, see the following: