CloudWatchInternetMonitor / Client / start_query

start_query#

CloudWatchInternetMonitor.Client.start_query(**kwargs)#

Start a query to return data for a specific query type for the Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor query interface. Specify a time period for the data that you want returned by using StartTime and EndTime. You filter the query results to return by providing parameters that you specify with FilterParameters.

For more information about using the query interface, including examples, see Using the Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor query interface in the Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor User Guide.

See also: AWS API Documentation

Request Syntax

response = client.start_query(
    MonitorName='string',
    StartTime=datetime(2015, 1, 1),
    EndTime=datetime(2015, 1, 1),
    QueryType='MEASUREMENTS'|'TOP_LOCATIONS'|'TOP_LOCATION_DETAILS',
    FilterParameters=[
        {
            'Field': 'string',
            'Operator': 'EQUALS'|'NOT_EQUALS',
            'Values': [
                'string',
            ]
        },
    ],
    LinkedAccountId='string'
)
Parameters:

  • MonitorName (string) –

    [REQUIRED]

    The name of the monitor to query.

  • StartTime (datetime) –

    [REQUIRED]

    The timestamp that is the beginning of the period that you want to retrieve data for with your query.

  • EndTime (datetime) –

    [REQUIRED]

    The timestamp that is the end of the period that you want to retrieve data for with your query.

  • QueryType (string) –

    [REQUIRED]

    The type of query to run. The following are the three types of queries that you can run using the Internet Monitor query interface:

    • MEASUREMENTS: Provides availability score, performance score, total traffic, and round-trip times, at 5 minute intervals.

    • TOP_LOCATIONS: Provides availability score, performance score, total traffic, and time to first byte (TTFB) information, for the top location and ASN combinations that you’re monitoring, by traffic volume.

    • TOP_LOCATION_DETAILS: Provides TTFB for Amazon CloudFront, your current configuration, and the best performing EC2 configuration, at 1 hour intervals.

    For lists of the fields returned with each query type and more information about how each type of query is performed, see Using the Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor query interface in the Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor User Guide.

  • FilterParameters (list) –

    The FilterParameters field that you use with Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor queries is a string the defines how you want a query to be filtered. The filter parameters that you can specify depend on the query type, since each query type returns a different set of Internet Monitor data.

    For more information about specifying filter parameters, see Using the Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor query interface in the Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor User Guide.

    • (dict) –

      A filter that you use with the results of a Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor query that you created and ran. The query sets up a repository of data that is a subset of your application’s Internet Monitor data. FilterParameter is a string that defines how you want to filter the repository of data to return a set of results, based on your criteria.

      The filter parameters that you can specify depend on the query type that you used to create the repository, since each query type returns a different set of Internet Monitor data.

      For each filter, you specify a field (such as city), an operator (such as not_equals, and a value or array of values (such as ["Seattle", "Redmond"]). Separate values in the array with commas.

      For more information about specifying filter parameters, see Using the Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor query interface in the Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor User Guide.

      • Field (string) –

        A data field that you want to filter, to further scope your application’s Internet Monitor data in a repository that you created by running a query. A field might be city, for example. The field must be one of the fields that was returned by the specific query that you used to create the repository.

      • Operator (string) –

        The operator to use with the filter field and a value, such as not_equals.

      • Values (list) –

        One or more values to be used, together with the specified operator, to filter data for a query. For example, you could specify an array of values such as ["Seattle", "Redmond"]. Values in the array are separated by commas.

        • (string) –

  • LinkedAccountId (string) – The account ID for an account that you’ve set up cross-account sharing for in Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor. You configure cross-account sharing by using Amazon CloudWatch Observability Access Manager. For more information, see Internet Monitor cross-account observability in the Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor User Guide.

Return type:

dict

Returns:

Response Syntax

{
    'QueryId': 'string'
}

Response Structure

  • (dict) –

    • QueryId (string) –

      The internally-generated identifier of a specific query.

Exceptions