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Delete Canary

synthetics_delete_canary R Documentation

Permanently deletes the specified canary

Description

Permanently deletes the specified canary.

If the canary's ProvisionedResourceCleanup field is set to AUTOMATIC or you specify DeleteLambda in this operation as true, CloudWatch Synthetics also deletes the Lambda functions and layers that are used by the canary.

Other resources used and created by the canary are not automatically deleted. After you delete a canary, you should also delete the following:

  • The CloudWatch alarms created for this canary. These alarms have a name of ⁠Synthetics-Alarm-first-198-characters-of-canary-name-canaryId-alarm number ⁠

  • Amazon S3 objects and buckets, such as the canary's artifact location.

  • IAM roles created for the canary. If they were created in the console, these roles have the name role/service-role/CloudWatchSyntheticsRole-First-21-Characters-of-CanaryName

  • CloudWatch Logs log groups created for the canary. These logs groups have the name ⁠/aws/lambda/cwsyn-First-21-Characters-of-CanaryName ⁠

Before you delete a canary, you might want to use get_canary to display the information about this canary. Make note of the information returned by this operation so that you can delete these resources after you delete the canary.

Usage

synthetics_delete_canary(Name, DeleteLambda)

Arguments

Name

[required] The name of the canary that you want to delete. To find the names of your canaries, use describe_canaries.
DeleteLambda

Specifies whether to also delete the Lambda functions and layers used by this canary. The default is false.

Your setting for this parameter is used only if the canary doesn't have AUTOMATIC for its ProvisionedResourceCleanup field. If that field is set to AUTOMATIC, then the Lambda functions and layers will be deleted when this canary is deleted.

Type: Boolean

Value

An empty list.

Request syntax

svc$delete_canary(
  Name = "string",
  DeleteLambda = TRUE|FALSE
)