---
title: "POST /controlpanel"
method: POST
path: "/controlpanel"
---

# POST /controlpanel

`POST /controlpanel`

Creates a new control panel. A control panel represents a group of routing controls that can be changed together in a single transaction. You can use a control panel to centrally view the operational status of applications across your organization, and trigger multi-app failovers in a single transaction, for example, to fail over an Availability Zone or Amazon Web Services Region.

## Request body

- object
  - `ClientToken` string — A unique, case-sensitive string of up to 64 ASCII characters. To make an idempotent API request with an action, specify a client token in the request.
  - `ClusterArn` string, required — The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the cluster for the control panel.
  - `ControlPanelName` string, required — The name of the control panel.
  - `Tags` object — The tags associated with the control panel.

## Response `200`

Success

- CreateControlPanelResponse
  - `ControlPanel` object — Information about a control panel.
    - `ClusterArn` string — The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the cluster that includes the control panel.
    - `ControlPanelArn` string — The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the control panel.
    - `DefaultControlPanel` boolean — A flag that Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller sets to true to designate the default control panel for a cluster. When you create a cluster, Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller creates a control panel, and sets this flag for that control panel. If you create a control panel yourself, this flag is set to false.
    - `Name` string — The name of the control panel. You can use any non-white space character in the name.
    - `RoutingControlCount` integer — The number of routing controls in the control panel.
    - `Status` 'PENDING' | 'DEPLOYED' | 'PENDING_DELETION' — The deployment status of control panel. Status can be one of the following: PENDING, DEPLOYED, PENDING_DELETION.
    - `Owner` string — The Amazon Web Services account ID of the control panel owner.

## Other responses

- `480` — ValidationException
- `481` — InternalServerException
- `482` — ServiceQuotaExceededException
- `483` — AccessDeniedException
- `484` — ResourceNotFoundException
- `485` — ThrottlingException
- `486` — ConflictException

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