describe-db-clusters
Description
Returns information about provisioned Amazon DocumentDB clusters. This API operation supports pagination. For certain management features such as cluster and instance lifecycle management, Amazon DocumentDB leverages operational technology that is shared with Amazon RDS and Amazon Neptune. Use the filterName=engine,Values=docdb filter parameter to return only Amazon DocumentDB clusters.
See also: AWS API Documentation
describe-db-clusters is a paginated operation. Multiple API calls may be issued in order to retrieve the entire data set of results. You can disable pagination by providing the --no-paginate argument. When using --output text and the --query argument on a paginated response, the --query argument must extract data from the results of the following query expressions: DBClusters
Synopsis
describe-db-clusters
[--db-cluster-identifier <value>]
[--filters <value>]
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--starting-token <value>]
[--page-size <value>]
[--max-items <value>]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]
[--debug]
[--endpoint-url <value>]
[--no-verify-ssl]
[--no-paginate]
[--output <value>]
[--query <value>]
[--profile <value>]
[--region <value>]
[--version <value>]
[--color <value>]
[--no-sign-request]
[--ca-bundle <value>]
[--cli-read-timeout <value>]
[--cli-connect-timeout <value>]
[--cli-binary-format <value>]
[--no-cli-pager]
[--cli-auto-prompt]
[--no-cli-auto-prompt]
Options
--db-cluster-identifier (string)
The user-provided cluster identifier. If this parameter is specified, information from only the specific cluster is returned. This parameter isn’t case sensitive.
Constraints:
- If provided, must match an existing
DBClusterIdentifier.
--filters (list)
A filter that specifies one or more clusters to describe.
Supported filters:
-
db-cluster-id- Accepts cluster identifiers and cluster Amazon Resource Names (ARNs). The results list only includes information about the clusters identified by these ARNs.
(structure)
A named set of filter values, used to return a more specific list of results. You can use a filter to match a set of resources by specific criteria, such as IDs.
Wildcards are not supported in filters.
Name -> (string)
Values -> (list)
One or more filter values. Filter values are case sensitive.
(string)
Shorthand Syntax:
Name=string,Values=string,string ...
JSON Syntax:
[
{
"Name": "string",
"Values": ["string", ...]
}
...
]
--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml (string) Reads arguments from the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by --generate-cli-skeleton. If other arguments are provided on the command line, those values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally. This may not be specified along with --cli-input-yaml.
--starting-token (string)
A token to specify where to start paginating. This is the NextToken from a previously truncated response.
For usage examples, see Pagination in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide .
--page-size (integer)
The size of each page to get in the AWS service call. This does not affect the number of items returned in the command’s output. Setting a smaller page size results in more calls to the AWS service, retrieving fewer items in each call. This can help prevent the AWS service calls from timing out.
For usage examples, see Pagination in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide .
--max-items (integer)
The total number of items to return in the command’s output. If the total number of items available is more than the value specified, a NextToken is provided in the command’s output. To resume pagination, provide the NextToken value in the starting-token argument of a subsequent command. Do not use the NextToken response element directly outside of the AWS CLI.
For usage examples, see Pagination in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide .
--generate-cli-skeleton (string) Prints a JSON skeleton to standard output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value input, prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for --cli-input-json. Similarly, if provided yaml-input it will print a sample input YAML that can be used with --cli-input-yaml. If provided with the value output, it validates the command inputs and returns a sample output JSON for that command. The generated JSON skeleton is not stable between versions of the AWS CLI and there are no backwards compatibility guarantees in the JSON skeleton generated.
Global Options
--debug (boolean)
Turn on debug logging.
--endpoint-url (string)
Override command’s default URL with the given URL.
--no-verify-ssl (boolean)
By default, the AWS CLI uses SSL when communicating with AWS services. For each SSL connection, the AWS CLI will verify SSL certificates. This option overrides the default behavior of verifying SSL certificates.
--no-paginate (boolean)
Disable automatic pagination. If automatic pagination is disabled, the AWS CLI will only make one call, for the first page of results.
--output (string)
The formatting style for command output.
- json
- text
- table
- yaml
- yaml-stream
--query (string)
A JMESPath query to use in filtering the response data.
--profile (string)
Use a specific profile from your credential file.
--region (string)
The region to use. Overrides config/env settings.
--version (string)
Display the version of this tool.
--color (string)
Turn on/off color output.
- on
- off
- auto
--no-sign-request (boolean)
Do not sign requests. Credentials will not be loaded if this argument is provided.
--ca-bundle (string)
The CA certificate bundle to use when verifying SSL certificates. Overrides config/env settings.
--cli-read-timeout (int)
The maximum socket read time in seconds. If the value is set to 0, the socket read will be blocking and not timeout. The default value is 60 seconds.
--cli-connect-timeout (int)
The maximum socket connect time in seconds. If the value is set to 0, the socket connect will be blocking and not timeout. The default value is 60 seconds.
--cli-binary-format (string)
The formatting style to be used for binary blobs. The default format is base64. The base64 format expects binary blobs to be provided as a base64 encoded string. The raw-in-base64-out format preserves compatibility with AWS CLI V1 behavior and binary values must be passed literally. When providing contents from a file that map to a binary blob fileb:// will always be treated as binary and use the file contents directly regardless of the cli-binary-format setting. When using file:// the file contents will need to properly formatted for the configured cli-binary-format.
- base64
- raw-in-base64-out
--no-cli-pager (boolean)
Disable cli pager for output.
--cli-auto-prompt (boolean)
Automatically prompt for CLI input parameters.
--no-cli-auto-prompt (boolean)
Disable automatically prompt for CLI input parameters.
Examples
Note
To use the following examples, you must have the AWS CLI installed and configured. See the Getting started guide in the AWS CLI User Guide for more information.
Unless otherwise stated, all examples have unix-like quotation rules. These examples will need to be adapted to your terminal’s quoting rules. See Using quotation marks with strings in the AWS CLI User Guide .
To get detailed information about one or more Amazon DocumentDB clusters.
The following describe-db-clusters example displays details for the Amazon DocumentDB cluster sample-cluster. By omitting the --db-cluster-identifier parameter you can get information of up to 100 clusters.
aws docdb describe-db-clusters
--db-cluster-identifier sample-cluster
Output:
{
"DBClusters": [
{
"DBClusterParameterGroup": "default.docdb3.6",
"Endpoint": "sample-cluster.cluster-corcjozrlsfc.us-west-2.docdb.amazonaws.com",
"PreferredBackupWindow": "00:00-00:30",
"DBClusterIdentifier": "sample-cluster",
"ClusterCreateTime": "2019-03-15T20:29:58.836Z",
"LatestRestorableTime": "2019-03-18T20:28:03.239Z",
"MasterUsername": "master-user",
"DBClusterMembers": [
{
"PromotionTier": 1,
"DBClusterParameterGroupStatus": "in-sync",
"IsClusterWriter": false,
"DBInstanceIdentifier": "sample-cluster"
},
{
"PromotionTier": 1,
"DBClusterParameterGroupStatus": "in-sync",
"IsClusterWriter": true,
"DBInstanceIdentifier": "sample-cluster2"
}
],
"PreferredMaintenanceWindow": "sat:04:30-sat:05:00",
"VpcSecurityGroups": [
{
"VpcSecurityGroupId": "sg-77186e0d",
"Status": "active"
}
],
"Engine": "docdb",
"ReaderEndpoint": "sample-cluster.cluster-ro-corcjozrlsfc.us-west-2.docdb.amazonaws.com",
"DBSubnetGroup": "default",
"MultiAZ": true,
"AvailabilityZones": [
"us-west-2a",
"us-west-2c",
"us-west-2b"
],
"EarliestRestorableTime": "2019-03-15T20:30:47.020Z",
"DbClusterResourceId": "cluster-UP4EF2PVDDFVHHDJQTYDAIGHLE",
"DBClusterArn": "arn:aws:rds:us-west-2:123456789012:cluster:sample-cluster",
"BackupRetentionPeriod": 3,
"HostedZoneId": "ZNKXH85TT8WVW",
"StorageEncrypted": false,
"EnabledCloudwatchLogsExports": [
"audit"
],
"AssociatedRoles": [],
"EngineVersion": "3.6.0",
"Port": 27017,
"Status": "available"
}
]
}
For more information, see Describing Amazon DocumentDB Clusters in the Amazon DocumentDB Developer Guide.
Output
Marker -> (string)
MaxRecords .DBClusters -> (list)
A list of clusters.
(structure)
Detailed information about a cluster.
AvailabilityZones -> (list)
Provides the list of Amazon EC2 Availability Zones that instances in the cluster can be created in.
(string)
BackupRetentionPeriod -> (integer)
DBClusterIdentifier -> (string)
DBClusterParameterGroup -> (string)
DBSubnetGroup -> (string)
Status -> (string)
PercentProgress -> (string)
EarliestRestorableTime -> (timestamp)
Endpoint -> (string)
ReaderEndpoint -> (string)
The reader endpoint for the cluster. The reader endpoint for a cluster load balances connections across the Amazon DocumentDB replicas that are available in a cluster. As clients request new connections to the reader endpoint, Amazon DocumentDB distributes the connection requests among the Amazon DocumentDB replicas in the cluster. This functionality can help balance your read workload across multiple Amazon DocumentDB replicas in your cluster.
If a failover occurs, and the Amazon DocumentDB replica that you are connected to is promoted to be the primary instance, your connection is dropped. To continue sending your read workload to other Amazon DocumentDB replicas in the cluster, you can then reconnect to the reader endpoint.
MultiAZ -> (boolean)
Engine -> (string)
EngineVersion -> (string)
LatestRestorableTime -> (timestamp)
Port -> (integer)
MasterUsername -> (string)
PreferredBackupWindow -> (string)
BackupRetentionPeriod .PreferredMaintenanceWindow -> (string)
ReplicationSourceIdentifier -> (string)
ReadReplicaIdentifiers -> (list)
Contains one or more identifiers of the secondary clusters that are associated with this cluster.
(string)
DBClusterMembers -> (list)
Provides the list of instances that make up the cluster.
(structure)
Contains information about an instance that is part of a cluster.
DBInstanceIdentifier -> (string)
IsClusterWriter -> (boolean)
true if the cluster member is the primary instance for the cluster and false otherwise.DBClusterParameterGroupStatus -> (string)
PromotionTier -> (integer)
VpcSecurityGroups -> (list)
Provides a list of virtual private cloud (VPC) security groups that the cluster belongs to.
(structure)
Used as a response element for queries on virtual private cloud (VPC) security group membership.
VpcSecurityGroupId -> (string)
Status -> (string)
HostedZoneId -> (string)
StorageEncrypted -> (boolean)
KmsKeyId -> (string)
StorageEncrypted is true , the KMS key identifier for the encrypted cluster.DbClusterResourceId -> (string)
DBClusterArn -> (string)
AssociatedRoles -> (list)
Provides a list of the Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles that are associated with the cluster. (IAM) roles that are associated with a cluster grant permission for the cluster to access other Amazon Web Services services on your behalf.
(structure)
Describes an Identity and Access Management (IAM) role that is associated with a cluster.
RoleArn -> (string)
Status -> (string)
Describes the state of association between the IAMrole and the cluster. The Status property returns one of the following values:
-
ACTIVE- The IAMrole ARN is associated with the cluster and can be used to access other Amazon Web Services services on your behalf. -
PENDING- The IAMrole ARN is being associated with the cluster. -
INVALID- The IAMrole ARN is associated with the cluster, but the cluster cannot assume the IAMrole to access other Amazon Web Services services on your behalf.
CloneGroupId -> (string)
ClusterCreateTime -> (timestamp)
EnabledCloudwatchLogsExports -> (list)
A list of log types that this cluster is configured to export to Amazon CloudWatch Logs.
(string)
DeletionProtection -> (boolean)
DeletionProtection is enabled, the cluster cannot be deleted unless it is modified and DeletionProtection is disabled. DeletionProtection protects clusters from being accidentally deleted.StorageType -> (string)
Storage type associated with your cluster
Storage type associated with your cluster
For information on storage types for Amazon DocumentDB clusters, see Cluster storage configurations in the Amazon DocumentDB Developer Guide .
Valid values for storage type - standard | iopt1
Default value is standard
MasterUserSecret -> (structure)
The secret managed by Amazon DocumentDB in Amazon Web Services Secrets Manager for the master user password.
SecretArn -> (string)
SecretStatus -> (string)
The status of the secret.
The possible status values include the following:
- creating - The secret is being created.
- active - The secret is available for normal use and rotation.
- rotating - The secret is being rotated.
- impaired - The secret can be used to access database credentials, but it can’t be rotated. A secret might have this status if, for example, permissions are changed so that Amazon DocumentDB can no longer access either the secret or the KMS key for the secret. When a secret has this status, you can correct the condition that caused the status. Alternatively, modify the instance to turn off automatic management of database credentials, and then modify the instance again to turn on automatic management of database credentials.
KmsKeyId -> (string)
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