**To list Amazon DocumentDB events** The following ``describe-events`` example list all the Amazon DocumentDB events for the last 24 hours (1440 minutes). :: aws docdb describe-events \ --duration 1440 This command produces no output. Output:: { "Events": [ { "EventCategories": [ "failover" ], "Message": "Started cross AZ failover to DB instance: sample-cluster", "Date": "2019-03-18T21:36:29.807Z", "SourceArn": "arn:aws:rds:us-west-2:123456789012:cluster:sample-cluster", "SourceIdentifier": "sample-cluster", "SourceType": "db-cluster" }, { "EventCategories": [ "availability" ], "Message": "DB instance restarted", "Date": "2019-03-18T21:36:40.793Z", "SourceArn": "arn:aws:rds:us-west-2:123456789012:db:sample-cluster", "SourceIdentifier": "sample-cluster", "SourceType": "db-instance" }, { "EventCategories": [], "Message": "A new writer was promoted. Restarting database as a reader.", "Date": "2019-03-18T21:36:43.873Z", "SourceArn": "arn:aws:rds:us-west-2:123456789012:db:sample-cluster2", "SourceIdentifier": "sample-cluster2", "SourceType": "db-instance" }, { "EventCategories": [ "availability" ], "Message": "DB instance restarted", "Date": "2019-03-18T21:36:51.257Z", "SourceArn": "arn:aws:rds:us-west-2:123456789012:db:sample-cluster2", "SourceIdentifier": "sample-cluster2", "SourceType": "db-instance" }, { "EventCategories": [ "failover" ], "Message": "Completed failover to DB instance: sample-cluster", "Date": "2019-03-18T21:36:53.462Z", "SourceArn": "arn:aws:rds:us-west-2:123456789012:cluster:sample-cluster", "SourceIdentifier": "sample-cluster", "SourceType": "db-cluster" }, { "Date": "2019-03-19T16:51:48.847Z", "EventCategories": [ "configuration change" ], "Message": "Updated parameter audit_logs to enabled with apply method pending-reboot", "SourceIdentifier": "custom3-6-param-grp", "SourceType": "db-parameter-group" }, { "EventCategories": [ "configuration change" ], "Message": "Applying modification to database instance class", "Date": "2019-03-19T17:55:20.095Z", "SourceArn": "arn:aws:rds:us-west-2:123456789012:db:sample-cluster2", "SourceIdentifier": "sample-cluster2", "SourceType": "db-instance" }, { "EventCategories": [ "availability" ], "Message": "DB instance shutdown", "Date": "2019-03-19T17:56:31.127Z", "SourceArn": "arn:aws:rds:us-west-2:123456789012:db:sample-cluster2", "SourceIdentifier": "sample-cluster2", "SourceType": "db-instance" }, { "EventCategories": [ "configuration change" ], "Message": "Finished applying modification to DB instance class", "Date": "2019-03-19T18:00:45.822Z", "SourceArn": "arn:aws:rds:us-west-2:123456789012:db:sample-cluster2", "SourceIdentifier": "sample-cluster2", "SourceType": "db-instance" }, { "EventCategories": [ "availability" ], "Message": "DB instance restarted", "Date": "2019-03-19T18:00:53.397Z", "SourceArn": "arn:aws:rds:us-west-2:123456789012:db:sample-cluster2", "SourceIdentifier": "sample-cluster2", "SourceType": "db-instance" }, { "EventCategories": [ "availability" ], "Message": "DB instance shutdown", "Date": "2019-03-19T18:23:36.045Z", "SourceArn": "arn:aws:rds:us-west-2:123456789012:db:sample-cluster2", "SourceIdentifier": "sample-cluster2", "SourceType": "db-instance" }, { "EventCategories": [ "availability" ], "Message": "DB instance restarted", "Date": "2019-03-19T18:23:46.209Z", "SourceArn": "arn:aws:rds:us-west-2:123456789012:db:sample-cluster2", "SourceIdentifier": "sample-cluster2", "SourceType": "db-instance" }, { "Date": "2019-03-19T18:39:05.822Z", "EventCategories": [ "configuration change" ], "Message": "Updated parameter ttl_monitor to enabled with apply method immediate", "SourceIdentifier": "custom3-6-param-grp", "SourceType": "db-parameter-group" }, { "Date": "2019-03-19T18:39:48.067Z", "EventCategories": [ "configuration change" ], "Message": "Updated parameter audit_logs to disabled with apply method immediate", "SourceIdentifier": "custom3-6-param-grp", "SourceType": "db-parameter-group" } ] } For more information, see `Viewing Amazon DocumentDB Events <https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ documentdb/latest/developerguide/managing-events.html#viewing-events>`__ in the *Amazon DocumentDB Developer Guide*.