POST /#Action=DescribeFlowLogs

Describes one or more flow logs.

To view the published flow log records, you must view the log destination. For example, the CloudWatch Logs log group, the Amazon S3 bucket, or the Kinesis Data Firehose delivery stream.

Servers

Request headers

Name Type Required Description
X-Amz-Content-Sha256 String No
X-Amz-Credential String No
Content-Type String Yes The media type of the request body.

Default value: "text/xml"

X-Amz-Date String No
X-Amz-Algorithm String No
X-Amz-SignedHeaders String No
X-Amz-Security-Token String No
X-Amz-Signature String No

Query parameters

Name Type Required Description
Version String Yes

Possible values:

  • "2016-11-15"
MaxResults String No

Pagination limit

NextToken String No

Pagination token

Action String Yes

Possible values:

  • "DescribeFlowLogs"

Request body fields

Name Type Required Description
Filter[] Array No

One or more filters.

  • deliver-log-status - The status of the logs delivery (SUCCESS | FAILED).

  • log-destination-type - The type of destination for the flow log data (cloud-watch-logs | s3 | kinesis-data-firehose).

  • flow-log-id - The ID of the flow log.

  • log-group-name - The name of the log group.

  • resource-id - The ID of the VPC, subnet, or network interface.

  • traffic-type - The type of traffic (ACCEPT | REJECT | ALL).

  • tag:<key> - The key/value combination of a tag assigned to the resource. Use the tag key in the filter name and the tag value as the filter value. For example, to find all resources that have a tag with the key Owner and the value TeamA, specify tag:Owner for the filter name and TeamA for the filter value.

  • tag-key - The key of a tag assigned to the resource. Use this filter to find all resources assigned a tag with a specific key, regardless of the tag value.

MaxResults Integer No

The maximum number of items to return for this request. To get the next page of items, make another request with the token returned in the output. For more information, see Pagination.

NextToken String No

The token to request the next page of items. Pagination continues from the end of the items returned by the previous request.

DryRun Boolean No

Checks whether you have the required permissions for the action, without actually making the request, and provides an error response. If you have the required permissions, the error response is DryRunOperation. Otherwise, it is UnauthorizedOperation.

FlowLogIds[] Array No

One or more flow log IDs.

Constraint: Maximum of 1000 flow log IDs.

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