[ aws . autoscaling ]

describe-tags

Description

Describes the specified tags.

You can use filters to limit the results. For example, you can query for the tags for a specific Auto Scaling group. You can specify multiple values for a filter. A tag must match at least one of the specified values for it to be included in the results.

You can also specify multiple filters. The result includes information for a particular tag only if it matches all the filters. If there’s no match, no special message is returned.

For more information, see Tagging Auto Scaling Groups and Instances in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide .

See also: AWS API Documentation

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

describe-tags is a paginated operation. Multiple API calls may be issued in order to retrieve the entire data set of results. You can disable pagination by providing the --no-paginate argument. When using --output text and the --query argument on a paginated response, the --query argument must extract data from the results of the following query expressions: Tags

Synopsis

  describe-tags
[--filters <value>]
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--starting-token <value>]
[--page-size <value>]
[--max-items <value>]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]
[--cli-auto-prompt <value>]

Options

--filters (list)

One or more filters to scope the tags to return. The maximum number of filters per filter type (for example, auto-scaling-group ) is 1000.

(structure)

Describes a filter that is used to return a more specific list of results when describing tags.

For more information, see Tagging Auto Scaling Groups and Instances in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide .

Name -> (string)

The name of the filter. The valid values are: auto-scaling-group , key , value , and propagate-at-launch .

Values -> (list)

One or more filter values. Filter values are case-sensitive.

(string)

Shorthand Syntax:

Name=string,Values=string,string ...

JSON Syntax:

[
  {
    "Name": "string",
    "Values": ["string", ...]
  }
  ...
]

--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml (string) Reads arguments from the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by --generate-cli-skeleton. If other arguments are provided on the command line, those values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally. This may not be specified along with --cli-input-yaml.

--starting-token (string)

A token to specify where to start paginating. This is the NextToken from a previously truncated response.

For usage examples, see Pagination in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide .

--page-size (integer)

The size of each page to get in the AWS service call. This does not affect the number of items returned in the command’s output. Setting a smaller page size results in more calls to the AWS service, retrieving fewer items in each call. This can help prevent the AWS service calls from timing out.

For usage examples, see Pagination in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide .

--max-items (integer)

The total number of items to return in the command’s output. If the total number of items available is more than the value specified, a NextToken is provided in the command’s output. To resume pagination, provide the NextToken value in the starting-token argument of a subsequent command. Do not use the NextToken response element directly outside of the AWS CLI.

For usage examples, see Pagination in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide .

--generate-cli-skeleton (string) Prints a JSON skeleton to standard output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value input, prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for --cli-input-json. Similarly, if provided yaml-input it will print a sample input YAML that can be used with --cli-input-yaml. If provided with the value output, it validates the command inputs and returns a sample output JSON for that command.

--cli-auto-prompt (boolean) Automatically prompt for CLI input parameters.

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

Examples

To describe tags

This example describes all your tags:

aws autoscaling describe-tags

The following is example output:

{
    "Tags": [
        {
            "ResourceType": "auto-scaling-group",
            "ResourceId": "my-auto-scaling-group",
            "PropagateAtLaunch": true,
            "Value": "Research",
            "Key": "Dept"
        },
        {
            "ResourceType": "auto-scaling-group",
            "ResourceId": "my-auto-scaling-group",
            "PropagateAtLaunch": true,
            "Value": "WebServer",
            "Key": "Role"
        }
    ]
}

To describe tags for a specific Auto Scaling group, use the filters parameter:

aws autoscaling describe-tags --filters Name=auto-scaling-group,Values=my-auto-scaling-group

To return a specific number of tags, use the max-items parameter:

aws autoscaling describe-tags --max-items 1

The following is example output:

{
    "NextToken": "Z3M3LMPEXAMPLE",
    "Tags": [
        {
            "ResourceType": "auto-scaling-group",
            "ResourceId": "my-auto-scaling-group",
            "PropagateAtLaunch": true,
            "Value": "Research",
            "Key": "Dept"
        }
    ]
}

Use the NextToken field with the starting-token parameter in a subsequent call to get the additional tags:

aws autoscaling describe-tags --filters Name=auto-scaling-group,Values=my-auto-scaling-group --starting-token Z3M3LMPEXAMPLE

For more information, see Tagging Auto Scaling Groups and Instances in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide.

Output

Tags -> (list)

One or more tags.

(structure)

Describes a tag for an Auto Scaling group.

ResourceId -> (string)

The name of the group.

ResourceType -> (string)

The type of resource. The only supported value is auto-scaling-group .

Key -> (string)

The tag key.

Value -> (string)

The tag value.

PropagateAtLaunch -> (boolean)

Determines whether the tag is added to new instances as they are launched in the group.

NextToken -> (string)

A string that indicates that the response contains more items than can be returned in a single response. To receive additional items, specify this string for the NextToken value when requesting the next set of items. This value is null when there are no more items to return.