DescribeEventCategories - Amazon Redshift

DescribeEventCategories

Displays a list of event categories for all event source types, or for a specified source type. For a list of the event categories and source types, go to Amazon Redshift Event Notifications.

Request Parameters

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

SourceType

The source type, such as cluster or parameter group, to which the described event categories apply.

Valid values: cluster, cluster-snapshot, cluster-parameter-group, cluster-security-group, and scheduled-action.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 2147483647.

Required: No

Response Elements

The following element is returned by the service.

EventCategoriesMapList.EventCategoriesMap.N

A list of event categories descriptions.

Type: Array of EventCategoriesMap objects

Errors

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

Examples

Example

This example illustrates one usage of DescribeEventCategories.

Sample Request

https://redshift.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/ ?Action=DescribeEventCategories &SourceType=cluster &SignatureMethod=HmacSHA256&SignatureVersion=4 &Version=2012-12-01 &X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 &X-Amz-Credential=AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE/20190817/us-east-2/redshift/aws4_request &X-Amz-Date=20190825T160000Z &X-Amz-SignedHeaders=content-type;host;user-agent;x-amz-content-sha256;x-amz-date &X-Amz-Signature=0aa1234bb5cc678ddddd901ee2ff3aa45678b90c12d345e6ff789012345a6b7b

Sample Response

<DescribeEventCategoriesResponse xmlns="http://redshift.amazonaws.com/doc/2012-12-01/"> <DescribeEventCategoriesResult> <EventCategoriesMapList> <EventCategoriesMap> <SourceType>cluster</SourceType> <Events> <EventInfoMap> <Severity>INFO</Severity> <EventDescription>Cluster <cluster name> created at <time in UTC>.</EventDescription> <EventId>REDSHIFT-EVENT-2000</EventId> <EventCategories> <EventCategory>management</EventCategory> </EventCategories> </EventInfoMap> <EventInfoMap> <Severity>INFO</Severity> <EventDescription>Cluster <cluster name> deleted at <time in UTC>.</EventDescription> <EventId>REDSHIFT-EVENT-2001</EventId> <EventCategories> <EventCategory>management</EventCategory> </EventCategories> </EventInfoMap> </Events> </EventCategoriesMap> </EventCategoriesMapList> </DescribeEventCategoriesResult> <ResponseMetadata> <RequestId>5ad8a6a4-283f-11ea-a940-1b28a85fd753</RequestId> </ResponseMetadata> </DescribeEventCategoriesResponse>

See Also

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