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Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling events

Auto Scaling sends service events directly to EventBridge, as well as via Amazon CloudTrail.

Auto Scaling service events

Auto Scaling sends the following events directly to EventBridge:

Delivery type: Best effort

To match against all events from this service, create an event pattern that matches against the following event attribute:

{
  "source": ["aws.autoscaling"]
}

To match against specific events, include a detail-type attribute specifying an array of event names to match. For example:

{
  "source": ["aws.autoscaling"],
  "detail-type": ["EC2 Instance Launch Successful"]
}

For more information, see Creating event patterns in the Amazon EventBridge User Guide.

Auto Scaling events delivered via Amazon CloudTrail

Amazon CloudTrail sends events originating from Auto Scaling to EventBridge. Amazon services deliver events to CloudTrail on a best effort basis. For more information, see Amazon service events delivered via Amazon CloudTrail in the Amazon EventBridge User Guide.

To match events from this service delivered by Amazon CloudTrail, create an event pattern that matches against the following event attributes:

{
  "source": ["aws.autoscaling"],
  "detail-type": ["Amazon API Call via CloudTrail"],
  "detail": {
    "eventSource": ["autoscaling.amazonaws.com"]
  }
}

To match against a specific API calls from this service, include an eventName attribute specifying an array of API calls to match:

{
  "source": ["aws.autoscaling"],
  "detail-type": ["Amazon API Call via CloudTrail"],
  "detail": {
    "eventSource": ["autoscaling.amazonaws.com"],
    "eventName": ["api-action-name"]
  }
}