Dimension - Amazon Timestream
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Dimension

Represents the metadata attributes of the time series. For example, the name and Availability Zone of an EC2 instance or the name of the manufacturer of a wind turbine are dimensions.

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Name

Dimension represents the metadata attributes of the time series. For example, the name and Availability Zone of an EC2 instance or the name of the manufacturer of a wind turbine are dimensions.

For constraints on dimension names, see Naming Constraints.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 60.

Required: Yes

Value

The value of the dimension.

Type: String

Required: Yes

DimensionValueType

The data type of the dimension for the time-series data point.

Type: String

Valid Values: VARCHAR

Required: No

See Also

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