name : describe-alarms-for-metric.rst **To display information about alarms associated with a metric** The following example uses the ``describe-alarms-for-metric`` command to display information about any alarms associated with the Amazon EC2 CPUUtilization metric and the instance with the ID i-0c986c72.:: aws cloudwatch describe-alarms-for-metric --metric-name CPUUtilization --namespace AWS/EC2 --dimensions Name=InstanceId,Value=i-0c986c72 Output:: { "MetricAlarms": [ { "EvaluationPeriods": 10, "AlarmArn": "arn:aws:cloudwatch:us-east-1:111122223333:alarm:myHighCpuAlarm2", "StateUpdatedTimestamp": "2013-10-30T03:03:51.479Z", "AlarmConfigurationUpdatedTimestamp": "2013-10-30T03:03:50.865Z", "ComparisonOperator": "GreaterThanOrEqualToThreshold", "AlarmActions": [ "arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:111122223333:NotifyMe" ], "Namespace": "AWS/EC2", "AlarmDescription": "CPU usage exceeds 70 percent", "StateReasonData": "{\"version\":\"1.0\",\"queryDate\":\"2013-10-30T03:03:51.479+0000\",\"startDate\":\"2013-10-30T02:08:00.000+0000\",\"statistic\":\"Average\",\"period\":300,\"recentDatapoints\":[40.698,39.612,42.432,39.796,38.816,42.28,42.854,40.088,40.760000000000005,41.316],\"threshold\":70.0}", "Period": 300, "StateValue": "OK", "Threshold": 70.0, "AlarmName": "myHighCpuAlarm2", "Dimensions": [ { "Name": "InstanceId", "Value": "i-0c986c72" } ], "Statistic": "Average", "StateReason": "Threshold Crossed: 10 datapoints were not greater than or equal to the threshold (70.0). The most recent datapoints: [40.760000000000005, 41.316].", "InsufficientDataActions": [], "OKActions": [], "ActionsEnabled": true, "MetricName": "CPUUtilization" }, { "EvaluationPeriods": 2, "AlarmArn": "arn:aws:cloudwatch:us-east-1:111122223333:alarm:myHighCpuAlarm", "StateUpdatedTimestamp": "2014-04-09T18:59:06.442Z", "AlarmConfigurationUpdatedTimestamp": "2014-04-09T22:26:05.958Z", "ComparisonOperator": "GreaterThanThreshold", "AlarmActions": [ "arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:111122223333:HighCPUAlarm" ], "Namespace": "AWS/EC2", "AlarmDescription": "CPU usage exceeds 70 percent", "StateReasonData": "{\"version\":\"1.0\",\"queryDate\":\"2014-04-09T18:59:06.419+0000\",\"startDate\":\"2014-04-09T18:44:00.000+0000\",\"statistic\":\"Average\",\"period\":300,\"recentDatapoints\":[38.958,40.292],\"threshold\":70.0}", "Period": 300, "StateValue": "OK", "Threshold": 70.0, "AlarmName": "myHighCpuAlarm", "Dimensions": [ { "Name": "InstanceId", "Value": "i-0c986c72" } ], "Statistic": "Average", "StateReason": "Threshold Crossed: 2 datapoints were not greater than the threshold (70.0). The most recent datapoints: [38.958, 40.292].", "InsufficientDataActions": [], "OKActions": [], "ActionsEnabled": false, "MetricName": "CPUUtilization" } ] }