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Bharathi
Bharathi

Reputation: 501

aws ec2 describe-instance-status filter by tag not working

I am trying to get all ec2 instance that have schedules events and filter by a tag name. But the filter by tag throws an error. I am trying the below command:

aws ec2 describe-instance-status --filters "Name=tag:Name,Values=*xyz*"

The above command throws:

An error occurred (InvalidParameterValue) when calling the DescribeInstanceStatus operation: 
The filter 'tag:Name' is invalid

However when I run the same filer on describe-instances, it works fine:

aws ec2 describe-instances --filters "Name=tag:Name,Values=*xyz*"

The above command returns the ec2 instances as expected.

It happens on boto3 as well. Please help on this.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 8669

Answers (1)

Alex Harvey
Alex Harvey

Reputation: 15472

The filters that are accepted by describe-instance-status are documented here. As can be seen, filtering by tag is not an option. You will probably need to firstly get the list of instance-ids using describe-instances and filtering by tag, and then for each of these instance-ids, find the instance status.

Upvotes: 4

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