**To list information about an alarm** The following example uses the ``describe-alarms`` command to provide information about the alarm named "myalarm":: aws cloudwatch describe-alarms --alarm-names "myalarm" Output:: { "MetricAlarms": [ { "EvaluationPeriods": 2, "AlarmArn": "arn:aws:cloudwatch:us-east-1:123456789012:alarm:myalarm", "StateUpdatedTimestamp": "2014-04-09T18:59:06.442Z", "AlarmConfigurationUpdatedTimestamp": "2012-12-27T00:49:54.032Z", "ComparisonOperator": "GreaterThanThreshold", "AlarmActions": [ "arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:123456789012:myHighCpuAlarm" ], "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": "myalarm", "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": true, "MetricName": "CPUUtilization" } ] }
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