Use GetResourceConfigurationTimeline to query resource configuration history - Cloud Config - Alibaba Cloud - Cloud Config

Queries the configuration history of a specified resource. Cloud Config records every configuration change and resource relationship change of resources and organizes them into a configuration history. After you activate Cloud Config, it starts recording the configuration and resource relationship changes of resources and retains the records for 10 years by default.

Operation description

Cloud Config provides the configuration history for each resource within the monitoring scope. The details are as follows:

For resources that exist when you activate Cloud Config, the starting point of the configuration history is the service activation time.
For resources created after you activate Cloud Config, the starting point of the configuration history is the resource creation time. Cloud Config records resource configuration changes every 10 minutes. When a resource configuration changes, a node appears in the configuration history to display the resource configuration details, change details, and the operation events involved in the change at that point in time.

This topic provides an example on how to query the configuration history of the new-bucket (bucket) resource in the cn-hangzhou region. The response shows that the configuration history timestamp of the resource is 1624961112000 (UTC+8: 2021-06-29 18:05:12).

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RAM authorization

The table below describes the authorization required to call this API. You can define it in a Resource Access Management (RAM) policy. The table's columns are detailed below:

Action: The actions can be used in the Action element of RAM permission policy statements to grant permissions to perform the operation.
API: The API that you can call to perform the action.
Access level: The predefined level of access granted for each API. Valid values: create, list, get, update, and delete.
Resource type: The type of the resource that supports authorization to perform the action. It indicates if the action supports resource-level permission. The specified resource must be compatible with the action. Otherwise, the policy will be ineffective.
- For APIs with resource-level permissions, required resource types are marked with an asterisk (*). Specify the corresponding Alibaba Cloud Resource Name (ARN) in the Resource element of the policy.
- For APIs without resource-level permissions, it is shown as All Resources. Use an asterisk (*) in the Resource element of the policy.
Condition key: The condition keys defined by the service. The key allows for granular control, applying to either actions alone or actions associated with specific resources. In addition to service-specific condition keys, Alibaba Cloud provides a set of common condition keys applicable across all RAM-supported services.
Dependent action: The dependent actions required to run the action. To complete the action, the RAM user or the RAM role must have the permissions to perform all dependent actions.

Action

Access level

Resource type

Condition key

Dependent action

config:GetResourceConfigurationTimeline

list

*All Resource

*

None

Request parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description	Example
ResourceId	string	Yes	The resource ID. For more information about how to obtain the resource ID, see ListDiscoveredResources.	new-bucket
StartTime	integer	No	The start timestamp. By default, the system queries records from 30 days before the call is initiated. Unit: milliseconds.	1623211156000
EndTime	integer	No	The end timestamp. By default, the system queries records up to the time when the call is initiated. Unit: milliseconds.	1625821156000
MaxResults	integer	No	The maximum number of entries to return for a single request. Valid values: 1 to 100.	10
ResourceType	string	Yes	The resource type. For more information about how to obtain the resource type, see ListDiscoveredResources.	ACS::OSS::Bucket
Region	string	Yes	The region ID.	cn-hangzhou
NextToken	string	No	If the response of a request is truncated, you can use `NextToken` to initiate another request to obtain the remaining results.	IWBjqMYSy0is7zSMGu16****

For more information about common request parameters, see Common parameters.

Response elements

Element	Type	Description	Example
	object	None.
RequestId	string	The request ID.	ED9CD1B3-286C-4E05-A765-5E1E0B9BC2AB
ResourceConfigurationTimeline	object	The configuration history of the resource.
NextToken	string	The token used to query the next page.	IWBjqMYSy0is7zSMGu16****
MaxResults	integer	The maximum number of entries returned for a single request.	10
ConfigurationList	array<object>	The list of configuration history records for the resource.
	object	The list of configuration history records for the resource.
Tags	string	The tags of the resource.	{\"\"hc\"\":[\"\"value2\"\"]}
AccountId	integer	The Alibaba Cloud account ID of the resource ownership.	100931896542****
ResourceEventType	string	The type of the resource change event. Valid values: DISCOVERED: The resource event newly discovered by Cloud Config. DISCOVERED_REVISED: The resource event newly discovered by Cloud Config through a periodic correction task. MODIFY: The resource modification event. MODIFY_REVISED: The resource modification event generated by a periodic correction task. REMOVE: The resource deletion event. Note To ensure resource integrity, Cloud Config periodically aligns data through periodic correction tasks and generates newly discovered resource events. These events occur at a low frequency. The time when a resource event is generated by a periodic correction task is the task discovery time, which is later than the actual change time of the resource.	DISCOVERED
AvailabilityZone	string	The zone.	cn-hangzhou-h
ResourceType	string	The resource type.	ACS::OSS::Bucket
ResourceCreateTime	string	The timestamp when the resource was created. Unit: milliseconds.	1624961112000
Region	string	The region ID.	cn-hangzhou
CaptureTime	string	The timestamp when the resource change snapshot was recorded. Unit: milliseconds.	1624961156000
ConfigurationDiff	string	The details of the resource change that triggered this evaluation.	{\"AccessControlList\":[null,{\"Grant\":\"private\"}],\"ServerSideEncryptionRule\":[null,{\"SSEAlgorithm\":\"None\"}],\"CreationDate\":[null,\"2021-06-29T10:05:12.000Z\"],\"Owner\":[null,{\"DisplayName\":\"100931896542**\",\"ID\":\"100931896542**\"}],\"BucketPolicy\":[null,{\"LogPrefix\":\"\",\"LogBucket\":\"\"}],\"StorageClass\":[null,\"Standard\"],\"ExtranetEndpoint\":[null,\"oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com\"],\"DataRedundancyType\":[null,\"LRS\"],\"AllowEmptyReferer\":[null,\"true\"],\"IntranetEndpoint\":[null,\"oss-cn-hangzhou-internal.aliyuncs.com\"],\"Name\":[null,\"new-bucket\"],\"Location\":[null,\"oss-cn-hangzhou\"]}
ResourceId	string	The resource ID.	new-bucket
ResourceName	string	The resource name.	new-bucket
Relationship	string	The details of the related resources, including the region ID, resource relationship, resource ID, and resource type of the related resources.	""
RelationshipDiff	string	The changed items of the related resources.	""

Examples

Success response

JSON format

{
  "RequestId": "ED9CD1B3-286C-4E05-A765-5E1E0B9BC2AB",
  "ResourceConfigurationTimeline": {
    "NextToken": "IWBjqMYSy0is7zSMGu16****",
    "MaxResults": 10,
    "ConfigurationList": [
      {
        "Tags": "{\\\"\\\"hc\\\"\\\":[\\\"\\\"value2\\\"\\\"]}",
        "AccountId": 0,
        "ResourceEventType": "DISCOVERED",
        "AvailabilityZone": "cn-hangzhou-h",
        "ResourceType": "ACS::OSS::Bucket",
        "ResourceCreateTime": "1624961112000",
        "Region": "cn-hangzhou",
        "CaptureTime": "1624961156000",
        "ConfigurationDiff": "{\\\"AccessControlList\\\":[null,{\\\"Grant\\\":\\\"private\\\"}],\\\"ServerSideEncryptionRule\\\":[null,{\\\"SSEAlgorithm\\\":\\\"None\\\"}],\\\"CreationDate\\\":[null,\\\"2021-06-29T10:05:12.000Z\\\"],\\\"Owner\\\":[null,{\\\"DisplayName\\\":\\\"100931896542****\\\",\\\"ID\\\":\\\"100931896542****\\\"}],\\\"BucketPolicy\\\":[null,{\\\"LogPrefix\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"LogBucket\\\":\\\"\\\"}],\\\"StorageClass\\\":[null,\\\"Standard\\\"],\\\"ExtranetEndpoint\\\":[null,\\\"oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com\\\"],\\\"DataRedundancyType\\\":[null,\\\"LRS\\\"],\\\"AllowEmptyReferer\\\":[null,\\\"true\\\"],\\\"IntranetEndpoint\\\":[null,\\\"oss-cn-hangzhou-internal.aliyuncs.com\\\"],\\\"Name\\\":[null,\\\"new-bucket\\\"],\\\"Location\\\":[null,\\\"oss-cn-hangzhou\\\"]}",
        "ResourceId": "new-bucket",
        "ResourceName": "new-bucket",
        "Relationship": "\"\"",
        "RelationshipDiff": "\"\""
      }
    ]
  }
}

Error codes

HTTP status code	Error code	Error message	Description
400	NoPermission	You are not authorized to perform this operation.	You are not authorized to perform this operation.
400	MemberNotBelongToMaster	The specified member does not belong to your organization.
404	AccountNotExisted	Your account does not exist.
503	ServiceUnavailable	The request has failed due to a temporary failure of the server.	The request has failed due to a temporary failure of the server.

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Release notes

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