AWS CLI Command Reference

[ aws . elb ]

describe-instance-health

Description

Describes the state of the specified instances with respect to the specified load balancer. If no instances are specified, the call describes the state of all instances that are currently registered with the load balancer. If instances are specified, their state is returned even if they are no longer registered with the load balancer. The state of terminated instances is not returned.

See also: AWS API Documentation

Synopsis

  describe-instance-health
--load-balancer-name <value>
[--instances <value>]
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]
[--debug]
[--endpoint-url <value>]
[--no-verify-ssl]
[--no-paginate]
[--output <value>]
[--query <value>]
[--profile <value>]
[--region <value>]
[--version <value>]
[--color <value>]
[--no-sign-request]
[--ca-bundle <value>]
[--cli-read-timeout <value>]
[--cli-connect-timeout <value>]
[--cli-binary-format <value>]
[--no-cli-pager]
[--cli-auto-prompt]
[--no-cli-auto-prompt]

Options

--load-balancer-name (string)

The name of the load balancer.

--instances (list)

The IDs of the instances.

(structure)

The ID of an EC2 instance.

InstanceId -> (string)

The instance ID.

Shorthand Syntax:

--instances InstanceId1 InstanceId2 InstanceId3

JSON Syntax:

[
  {
    "InstanceId": "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.

--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. The generated JSON skeleton is not stable between versions of the AWS CLI and there are no backwards compatibility guarantees in the JSON skeleton generated.

Global Options

--debug (boolean)

Turn on debug logging.

--endpoint-url (string)

Override command’s default URL with the given URL.

--no-verify-ssl (boolean)

By default, the AWS CLI uses SSL when communicating with AWS services. For each SSL connection, the AWS CLI will verify SSL certificates. This option overrides the default behavior of verifying SSL certificates.

--no-paginate (boolean)

Disable automatic pagination.

--output (string)

The formatting style for command output.

  • json

  • text

  • table

  • yaml

  • yaml-stream

--query (string)

A JMESPath query to use in filtering the response data.

--profile (string)

Use a specific profile from your credential file.

--region (string)

The region to use. Overrides config/env settings.

--version (string)

Display the version of this tool.

--color (string)

Turn on/off color output.

  • on

  • off

  • auto

--no-sign-request (boolean)

Do not sign requests. Credentials will not be loaded if this argument is provided.

--ca-bundle (string)

The CA certificate bundle to use when verifying SSL certificates. Overrides config/env settings.

--cli-read-timeout (int)

The maximum socket read time in seconds. If the value is set to 0, the socket read will be blocking and not timeout. The default value is 60 seconds.

--cli-connect-timeout (int)

The maximum socket connect time in seconds. If the value is set to 0, the socket connect will be blocking and not timeout. The default value is 60 seconds.

--cli-binary-format (string)

The formatting style to be used for binary blobs. The default format is base64. The base64 format expects binary blobs to be provided as a base64 encoded string. The raw-in-base64-out format preserves compatibility with AWS CLI V1 behavior and binary values must be passed literally. When providing contents from a file that map to a binary blob fileb:// will always be treated as binary and use the file contents directly regardless of the cli-binary-format setting. When using file:// the file contents will need to properly formatted for the configured cli-binary-format.

  • base64

  • raw-in-base64-out

--no-cli-pager (boolean)

Disable cli pager for output.

--cli-auto-prompt (boolean)

Automatically prompt for CLI input parameters.

--no-cli-auto-prompt (boolean)

Disable automatically prompt for CLI input parameters.

Examples

Note

To use the following examples, you must have the AWS CLI installed and configured. See the Getting started guide in the AWS CLI User Guide for more information.

Unless otherwise stated, all examples have unix-like quotation rules. These examples will need to be adapted to your terminal’s quoting rules. See Using quotation marks with strings in the AWS CLI User Guide .

To describe the health of the instances for a load balancer

This example describes the health of the instances for the specified load balancer.

Command:

aws elb describe-instance-health --load-balancer-name my-load-balancer

Output:

{
  "InstanceStates": [
      {
          "InstanceId": "i-207d9717",
          "ReasonCode": "N/A",
          "State": "InService",
          "Description": "N/A"
      },
      {
          "InstanceId": "i-afefb49b",
          "ReasonCode": "N/A",
          "State": "InService",
          "Description": "N/A"
      }
  ]
}

To describe the health of an instance for a load balancer

This example describes the health of the specified instance for the specified load balancer.

Command:

aws elb describe-instance-health --load-balancer-name my-load-balancer --instances i-7299c809

The following is an example response for an instance that is registering.

Output:

{
  "InstanceStates": [
      {
          "InstanceId": "i-7299c809",
          "ReasonCode": "ELB",
          "State": "OutOfService",
          "Description": "Instance registration is still in progress."
    }
  ]
}

The following is an example response for an unhealthy instance.

Output:

{
  "InstanceStates": [
      {
          "InstanceId": "i-7299c809",
          "ReasonCode": "Instance",
          "State": "OutOfService",
          "Description": "Instance has failed at least the UnhealthyThreshold number of health checks consecutively."
      }
  ]
}

Output

InstanceStates -> (list)

Information about the health of the instances.

(structure)

Information about the state of an EC2 instance.

InstanceId -> (string)

The ID of the instance.

State -> (string)

The current state of the instance.

Valid values: InService | OutOfService | Unknown

ReasonCode -> (string)

Information about the cause of OutOfService instances. Specifically, whether the cause is Elastic Load Balancing or the instance.

Valid values: ELB | Instance | N/A

Description -> (string)

A description of the instance state. This string can contain one or more of the following messages.

  • N/A

  • A transient error occurred. Please try again later.

  • Instance has failed at least the UnhealthyThreshold number of health checks consecutively.

  • Instance has not passed the configured HealthyThreshold number of health checks consecutively.

  • Instance registration is still in progress.

  • Instance is in the EC2 Availability Zone for which LoadBalancer is not configured to route traffic to.

  • Instance is not currently registered with the LoadBalancer.

  • Instance deregistration currently in progress.

  • Disable Availability Zone is currently in progress.

  • Instance is in pending state.

  • Instance is in stopped state.

  • Instance is in terminated state.

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