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MonitorInstances

Description

Enables monitoring for a running instance. For more information about monitoring instances, go to Monitoring Your Instances and Volumes in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide.

Request Parameters

Name Description Required

Name	Description	Required
`InstanceId.n`	One or more instance IDs. Type: String Default: None	Yes

InstanceId.n

One or more instance IDs.

Type: String

Default: None

Yes

Response Elements

The elements in the following table are wrapped in a MonitorInstancesResponse structure.

Name Description

Name	Description
`requestId`	The ID of the request. Type: xsd:string
`instancesSet`	List of instances. Each instance's information is wrapped in an `item` element. Type: MonitorInstancesResponseSetItemType

requestId

The ID of the request.

Type: xsd:string

instancesSet

List of instances. Each instance's information is wrapped in an item element.

Type: MonitorInstancesResponseSetItemType

Examples

Example Request

This example enables monitoring for i-43a4412a and i-23a3397d.

https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=MonitorInstances
&InstanceId.1=i-43a4412a
&InstanceId.2=i-23a3397d
&AUTHPARAMS

Example Response

<MonitorInstancesResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2011-12-15/">
    <requestId>59dbff89-35bd-4eac-99ed-be587EXAMPLE</requestId> 
    <instancesSet>
      <item>
        <instanceId>i-43a4412a</instanceId>
        <monitoring>
          <state>pending</state>
        </monitoring>
    </item>
    <item>
      <instanceId>i-23a3397d</instanceId>
        <monitoring>
          <state>pending</state>
        </monitoring>
      </item>
    </instancesSet>
</MonitorInstancesResponse>

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