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Describes a detector.

Amazon Lookout for Metrics API actions are eventually consistent. If you do a read operation on a resource immediately after creating or modifying it, use retries to allow time for the write operation to complete.

post/DescribeAnomalyDetector

Request body

AnomalyDetectorArnstring required

The ARN of the detector to describe.

Response

Success

AnomalyDetectorArnstring

The ARN of the detector.

AnomalyDetectorNamestring

The name of the detector.

AnomalyDetectorDescriptionstring

A description of the detector.

CreationTimestring date-time

The time at which the detector was created.

LastModificationTimestring date-time

The time at which the detector was last modified.

Status'ACTIVE' | 'ACTIVATING' | 'DELETING' | 'FAILED' | 'INACTIVE' | 'LEARNING' | 'BACK_TEST_ACTIVATING' | 'BACK_TEST_ACTIVE' | 'BACK_TEST_COMPLETE' | 'DEACTIVATED' | 'DEACTIVATING'

The status of the detector.

FailureReasonstring

The reason that the detector failed.

KmsKeyArnstring

The ARN of the KMS key to use to encrypt your data.

FailureType'ACTIVATION_FAILURE' | 'BACK_TEST_ACTIVATION_FAILURE' | 'DELETION_FAILURE' | 'DEACTIVATION_FAILURE'

The process that caused the detector to fail.