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Delete Canary

synthetics_delete_canary R Documentation

Permanently deletes the specified canary

Description

Permanently deletes the specified canary.

If you specify DeleteLambda to 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 that you do not intend to use again, you should also delete the following:

  • The CloudWatch alarms created for this canary. These alarms have a name of Synthetics-SharpDrop-Alarm-MyCanaryName.

  • 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-MyCanaryName.

  • CloudWatch Logs log groups created for the canary. These logs groups have the name ⁠/aws/lambda/cwsyn-MyCanaryName ⁠.

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.

Type: Boolean

Value

An empty list.

Request syntax

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