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Describes the events for the specified Spot Fleet request during the specified time.

Spot Fleet events are delayed by up to 30 seconds before they can be described. This ensures that you can query by the last evaluated time and not miss a recorded event. Spot Fleet events are available for 48 hours.

For more information, see Monitor fleet events using Amazon EventBridge in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.

get/#Action=DescribeSpotFleetRequestHistory

Query parameters

DryRunboolean

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 <code>DryRunOperation</code>. Otherwise, it is <code>UnauthorizedOperation</code>.

EventType'instanceChange' | 'fleetRequestChange' | 'error' | 'information'

The type of events to describe. By default, all events are described.

MaxResultsinteger

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 <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/Query-Requests.html#api-pagination">Pagination</a>.

NextTokenstring

The token to include in another request to get the next page of items. This value is <code>null</code> when there are no more items to return.

SpotFleetRequestIdstring required

The ID of the Spot Fleet request.

StartTimestring date-time required

The starting date and time for the events, in UTC format (for example, <i>YYYY</i>-<i>MM</i>-<i>DD</i>T<i>HH</i>:<i>MM</i>:<i>SS</i>Z).

Action'DescribeSpotFleetRequestHistory' required
Version'2016-11-15' required

Response

Success