POST

/#Action=DescribeScalingActivities

http://autoscaling.{region}.amazonaws.com/#Action=DescribeScalingActivities

Gets information about the scaling activities in the account and Region. When scaling events occur, you see a record of the scaling activity in the scaling activities. For more information, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/as-verify-scaling-activity.html">Verifying a scaling activity for an Auto Scaling group</a> in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide. If the scaling event succeeds, the value of the <code>StatusCode</code> element in the response is <code>Successful</code>. If an attempt to launch instances failed, the <code>StatusCode</code> value is <code>Failed</code> or <code>Cancelled</code> and the <code>StatusMessage</code> element in the response indicates the cause of the failure. For help interpreting the <code>StatusMessage</code>, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/CHAP_Troubleshooting.html">Troubleshooting Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling</a> in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide.

Access Token Required: API Key

Query Params

MaxRecordsstring

Pagination limit

NextTokenstring

Pagination token

Actionstringrequired

Allowed:

Versionstringrequired

Allowed:

Responses

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "id": "abc123",
    "created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
  }
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "VALIDATION_ERROR",
    "message": "Invalid request parameters"
  }
}

Language

CredentialsAPI KEY

API Key

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cURL Request

1curl --request POST \
2     --url 'http://autoscaling.{region}.amazonaws.com/#Action=DescribeScalingActivities' \
3     --header 'accept: application/json' \
4     --header 'content-type: application/json'

Response

1{
2  "success": true,
3  "data": {
4    "id": "abc123",
5    "created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
6  }
7}