positional arguments:¶

ALARM

name of the alarm (required)

optional arguments:¶

--comparison-operator {GreaterThanOrEqualToThreshold,GreaterThanThreshold,LessThanThreshold,LessThanOrEqualToThreshold}

arithmetic operator with which the comparison with the threshold will be made (required)

--evaluation-periods COUNT

number of consecutive periods for which the value of the metric needs to be compared to the threshold (required)

--metric-name METRIC

name for the alarm's associated metric (required)

--namespace NAMESPACE

namespace for the alarm's associated metric (required)

--period SECONDS

period over which the specified statistic is applied (required)

--statistic {Average,Maximum,Minimum,SampleCount,Sum}

statistic on which to alarm (required)

--threshold FLOAT

value to compare the statistic against (required)

--actions-enabled {true,false}

whether this alarm's actions should be executed when it changes state

--alarm-actions ARN1,ARN2,...

ARNs of SNS topics to publish to when the alarm changes to the ALARM state

--alarm-description DESCRIPTION

description of the alarm

-d KEY1=VALUE1,KEY2=VALUE2,..., --dimensions KEY1=VALUE1,KEY2=VALUE2,...

dimensions for the alarm's associated metric

--insufficient-data-actions ARN1,ARN2,...

ARNs of SNS topics to publish to when the alarm changes to the INSUFFICIENT_DATA state

--ok-actions ARN1,ARN2,...

ARNs of SNS topics to publish to when the alarm changes to the OK state

--unit UNIT

unit for the alarm's associated metric

--show-empty-fields

show empty values as "(nil)"

-U URL, --url URL

instance monitoring service endpoint URL

--region USER@REGION

region and/or user names to search when looking up config file data

-I KEY_ID, --access-key-id KEY_ID

-S KEY, --secret-key KEY

--security-token TOKEN

--debug

show debugging output

--debugger

launch interactive debugger on error

--version

show the program's version and exit

-h, --help

show this help message and exit