NAME

       mon-describe-alarms - Describe alarms fully.

SYNOPSIS

        mon-describe-alarms
           [AlarmNames [AlarmNames ...] ] [--action-prefix  value ]
           [--alarm-name-prefix   value  ]  [--state-value   value ]  [General
       Options]

DESCRIPTION

           Describe alarms fully.

ARGUMENTS

        AlarmNames
           Names of the alarms.

SPECIFIC OPTIONS

        --action-prefix VALUE
           Prefix of action names.

        --alarm-name-prefix VALUE
           Prefix of alarm names.

        --state-value VALUE
           State of Alarm.  One of OK, ALARM or INSUFFICIENT_DATA.

GENERAL OPTIONS

        --aws-credential-file VALUE
           Location of the file with your AWS credentials. This value  can  be
       set by
           using the environment variable 'AWS_CREDENTIAL_FILE'.

        -C, --ec2-cert-file-path VALUE
           Location  of  your  EC2  certificate file. This value can be set by
       using the
           environment variable 'EC2_CERT'.

        --connection-timeout VALUE
           Specify a connection timeout VALUE (in seconds). The default  value
       is
           '30'.

        --delimiter VALUE
           What delimiter to use when displaying delimited (long) results.

        --headers
           If you are displaying tabular or delimited results, it includes the
           column headers. If you are showing xml results, it returns the HTTP
           headers  from  the  service  request, if applicable. This is off by
       default.

        -I, --access-key-id VALUE
           Specify VALUE as the AWS Access Id to use.

        -K, --ec2-private-key-file-path VALUE
           Location of your EC2 private key file. This value  can  be  set  by
       using the
           environment variable 'EC2_PRIVATE_KEY'.

        --region VALUE
           Specify  region  VALUE as the web service region to use. This value
       can be
           set by using the environment variable 'EC2_REGION'.

        -S, --secret-key VALUE
           Specify VALUE as the AWS Secret Key to use.

        --show-empty-fields
           Show empty fields and rows, using a "(nil)" value. The  default  is
       to not
           show empty fields or columns.

        --show-request
           Displays  the  URL  the  tools  used  to  call the AWS Service. The
       default
           value is 'false'.

        --show-table, --show-long, --show-xml, --quiet
           Specify how the results are displayed: tabular,  delimited  (long),
       xml, or
           no output (quiet). Tabular shows a subset of the data in fixed
           column-width  form,  while  long  shows  all of the returned values
       delimited
           by a character. The xml is the raw return from the  service,  while
       quiet
           suppresses   all  standard  output.  The  default  is  tabular,  or
       'show-table'.

        -U, --url VALUE
           This option will override the URL for the service call with  VALUE.
       This
           value    can   be   set   by   using   the   environment   variable
       'AWS_CLOUDWATCH_URL'.

INPUT EXAMPLES

        Describe all of your alarms whose name starts with my-alm

          $PROMPT> mon-describe-alarms --alarm-name-prefix my-alm --headers

OUTPUT

        This command returns a table that contains the following:
        * ALARM - Alarm name.
        * DESCRIPTION - Alarm description. This column appears only in the
        --show-long view.
        * STATE - Alarm state.
        * STATE_REASON - Human readable reason for state. This column  appears
       only
        in the --show-long view.
        * STATE_REASON_DATA - Machine readable reason for state (JSON format).
       This
        column appears only in the --show-long view.
        * ENABLED - Actions enabled or not. This column appears only in the
        --show-long view.
        * OK_ACTIONS - Action to execute on OK  status.  This  column  appears
       only in
        the --show-long view.
        * ALARM_ACTIONS - Action to execute on ALARM status.
        *  INSUFFICIENT_DATA_ACTIONS  - Action to execute on INSUFFICIENT_DATA
       status.
        This column appears only in the --show-long view.
        * NAMESPACE - Namespace for metric.
        * METRIC_NAME - Metric name.
        * DIMENSIONS - Dimensions. This column appears only in the --show-long
       view.
        * PERIOD - Period.
        * STATISTIC - Statistic.
        * UNIT - Unit. This column appears only in the --show-long view.
        * EVAL_PERIODS - Number of periods for which metric will be evaluated.
        * COMPARISON - Comparison operator.
        * THRESHOLD - Threshold.

OUTPUT EXAMPLES

        This is an example output of this command.

SEE ALSO

         http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AutoScaling//DeveloperGuide/
         http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AutoScaling/latest/DeveloperGuide/