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 .

Synopsis¶

  describe-tags
[--filters <value>]
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--starting-token <value>]
[--page-size <value>]
[--max-items <value>]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <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 from a describe operation.

If you specify multiple filters, the filters are automatically logically joined with an AND , and the request returns only the results that match all of the specified filters.

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 for Name depend on which API operation you’re using with the filter ( DescribeAutoScalingGroups or DescribeTags ).

DescribeAutoScalingGroups

Valid values for Name include the following:

tag-key - Accepts tag keys. The results only include information about the Auto Scaling groups associated with these tag keys.

tag-value - Accepts tag values. The results only include information about the Auto Scaling groups associated with these tag values.

tag:<key> - Accepts the key/value combination of the tag. Use the tag key in the filter name and the tag value as the filter value. The results only include information about the Auto Scaling groups associated with the specified key/value combination.

DescribeTags

Valid values for Name include the following:

auto-scaling-group - Accepts the names of Auto Scaling groups. The results only include information about the tags associated with these Auto Scaling groups.

key - Accepts tag keys. The results only include information about the tags associated with these tag keys.

value - Accepts tag values. The results only include information about the tags associated with these tag values.

propagate-at-launch - Accepts a Boolean value, which specifies whether tags propagate to instances at launch. The results only include information about the tags associated with the specified Boolean value.

Values -> (list)

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

If you specify multiple values for a filter, the values are automatically logically joined with an OR , and the request returns all results that match any of the specified values. For example, specify “tag:environment” for the filter name and “production,development” for the filter values to find Auto Scaling groups with the tag “environment=production” or “environment=development”.

(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.

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

Examples¶

To describe all tags

This example describes all your tags.

aws autoscaling describe-tags

Output:

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

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

Example 2: To describe tags for a specified group

To describe tags for a specific Auto Scaling group, use the --filters option.

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

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

Example 3: To describe the specified number of tags

To return a specific number of tags, use the --max-items option.

aws autoscaling describe-tags \
    --max-items 1

If the output includes a NextToken field, there are more tags. To get the additional tags, use the value of this field with the --starting-token option in a subsequent call as follows.

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

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