Request Syntax Request Parameters Response Syntax Response Elements Errors Examples See Also

DescribeInstances

Retrieves information about the EC2 instances in an Amazon GameLift managed fleet, including instance ID, connection data, and status. You can use this operation with a multi-location fleet to get location-specific instance information. As an alternative, use the operations ListCompute and DescribeCompute to retrieve information for compute resources, including EC2 and Anywhere fleets.

You can call this operation in the following ways:

To get information on all instances in a fleet's home Region, specify the fleet ID.
To get information on all instances in a fleet's remote location, specify the fleet ID and location name.
To get information on a specific instance in a fleet, specify the fleet ID and instance ID.

Use the pagination parameters to retrieve results as a set of sequential pages.

If successful, this operation returns Instance objects for each requested instance, listed in no particular order. If you call this operation for an Anywhere fleet, you receive an InvalidRequestException.

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Request Syntax


{
   "FleetId": "string",
   "InstanceId": "string",
   "Limit": number,
   "Location": "string",
   "NextToken": "string"
}

Request Parameters

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

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

Note

In the following list, the required parameters are described first.

FleetId

A unique identifier for the fleet to retrieve instance information for. You can use either the fleet ID or ARN value.

Type: String

Pattern: ^fleet-\S+|^arn:.*:fleet\/fleet-\S+

Required: Yes

InstanceId

A unique identifier for an instance to retrieve. Specify an instance ID or leave blank to retrieve all instances in the fleet.

Type: String

Pattern: [a-zA-Z0-9\.-]+

Required: No

Limit

The maximum number of results to return. Use this parameter with NextToken to get results as a set of sequential pages.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 1.

Required: No

Location

The name of a location to retrieve instance information for, in the form of an AWS Region code such as us-west-2.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 64.

Pattern: ^[A-Za-z0-9\-]+

Required: No

NextToken

A token that indicates the start of the next sequential page of results. Use the token that is returned with a previous call to this operation. To start at the beginning of the result set, do not specify a value.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1024.

Required: No

Response Syntax


{
   "Instances": [ 
      { 
         "CreationTime": number,
         "DnsName": "string",
         "FleetArn": "string",
         "FleetId": "string",
         "InstanceId": "string",
         "IpAddress": "string",
         "Location": "string",
         "OperatingSystem": "string",
         "Status": "string",
         "Type": "string"
      }
   ],
   "NextToken": "string"
}

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

Instances

A collection of objects containing properties for each instance returned.

Type: Array of Instance objects

NextToken

A token that indicates where to resume retrieving results on the next call to this operation. If no token is returned, these results represent the end of the list.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1024.

Errors

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

InternalServiceException

The service encountered an unrecoverable internal failure while processing the request. Clients can retry such requests immediately or after a waiting period.

HTTP Status Code: 500

InvalidRequestException

One or more parameter values in the request are invalid. Correct the invalid parameter values before retrying.

HTTP Status Code: 400

NotFoundException

The requested resources was not found. The resource was either not created yet or deleted.

HTTP Status Code: 400

UnauthorizedException

The client failed authentication. Clients should not retry such requests.

HTTP Status Code: 400

UnsupportedRegionException

The requested operation is not supported in the Region specified.

HTTP Status Code: 400

Examples

Get instance data on a fleet's home Region

This example requests information on instances in a fleet's home Region. If the specified fleet also has instances deployed to remote locations, they aren't included in the response.

Sample Request


{
    "FleetId": "fleet-9999ffff-88ee-77dd-66cc-5555bbbb44aa",
    "Limit": "1"
}

Sample Response


{
    "Instances": [
        {
            "FleetId": "fleet-9999ffff-88ee-77dd-66cc-5555bbbb44aa",
            "FleetArn": "arn:aws:gamelift:us-west-2::fleet/fleet-9999ffff-88ee-77dd-66cc-5555bbbb44aa",
            "InstanceId": "i-11111111a222b333c,
            "IpAddress": "192.0.2.0",
            "DnsName": "ec2-192-0-2-0.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com",
            "OperatingSystem": "WIN_2012",
            "Type": "c4.large",
            "Status": "Active",
            "CreationTime": 1515032347.867,
            "Location": "us-west-2
        }
    ]
}

Get instance data on a fleet's remote location

This example requests information on fleet instances deployed to a remote location in the AWS Region sa-east-1. This example retrieves information on fleet instances in the sa-east-1 only.

Sample Request


{
    "FleetId": "fleet-9999ffff-88ee-77dd-66cc-5555bbbb44aa",
    "Location": "sa-east-1",
    "Limit": "2"
}

Sample Response


{
    "Instances": [
        {
            "FleetId": "fleet-9999ffff-88ee-77dd-66cc-5555bbbb44aa",
            "FleetArn": "arn:aws:gamelift:us-west-2::fleet/fleet-9999ffff-88ee-77dd-66cc-5555bbbb44aa",
            "InstanceId": "i-11111111a222b333c,
            "IpAddress": "192.0.2.0",
            "DnsName": "ec2-192-0-2-0.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com",
            "OperatingSystem": "WIN_2012",
            "Type": "c4.large",
            "Status": "Active",
            "CreationTime": 1515032347.867,
            "Location": "sa-east-1"
        },
        {
            "FleetId": "fleet-9999ffff-88ee-77dd-66cc-5555bbbb44aa",
            "FleetArn": "arn:aws:gamelift:us-east-2::fleet/fleet-9999ffff-88ee-77dd-66cc-5555bbbb44aa",
            "InstanceId": "i-12312311a222b444d,
            "IpAddress": "192.0.2.0",
            "DnsName": "ec2-192-0-2-0.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com",
            "OperatingSystem": "WIN_2012",
            "Type": "c4.large",
            "Status": "Active",
            "CreationTime": 1515032999.867,
            "Location": "sa-east-1"
        }
    ]
}