Use DescribeConfigurationRecorderStatus with an Amazon SDK or command line tool - Amazon Config
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Use DescribeConfigurationRecorderStatus with an Amazon SDK or command line tool

The following code examples show how to use DescribeConfigurationRecorderStatus.

CLI
Amazon CLI

To get status information for the configuration recorder

The following command returns the status of the default configuration recorder:

aws configservice describe-configuration-recorder-status

Output:

{
    "ConfigurationRecordersStatus": [
        {
            "name": "default",
            "lastStatus": "SUCCESS",
            "recording": true,
            "lastStatusChangeTime": 1452193834.344,
            "lastStartTime": 1441039997.819,
            "lastStopTime": 1441039992.835
        }
    ]
}
PowerShell
Tools for PowerShell

Example 1: This sample returns status of the configuration recorders. 

Get-CFGConfigurationRecorderStatus

Output:

LastErrorCode        :
LastErrorMessage     :
LastStartTime        : 10/11/2019 10:13:51 AM
LastStatus           : Success
LastStatusChangeTime : 12/31/2019 6:14:12 AM
LastStopTime         : 10/11/2019 10:13:46 AM
Name                 : default
Recording            : True

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