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Elastic Compute Service:DescribeInstanceMaintenanceAttributes

Last Updated:Aug 28, 2026

Queries the maintenance attributes of an instance.

Operation description

This operation is used to query the specified maintenance policy of an instance, which contains the following maintenance attributes:

  • Maintenance window: the time period that you specify for maintenance.

  • Maintenance action: the action that you specify in response to instance shutdown.

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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

ecs:DescribeInstanceMaintenanceAttributes

get

*All Resource

*

None None

Request parameters

Parameter

Type

Required

Description

Example

RegionId

string

Yes

The region ID of the instance. You can call the DescribeRegions operation to query the most recent region list.

cn-hangzhou

PageNumber

integer

No

The page number.

Pages start from page 1.

Default value: 1.

1

PageSize

integer

No

The number of entries per page. Valid values: 1 to 100.

Default value: 10.

10

InstanceId

array

No

The instance IDs. You can specify up to 100 instance IDs.

i-bp67acfmxazb4p****

string

No

The instance ID.

i-bp67acfmxazb4p****

Response elements

Element

Type

Description

Example

object

PageSize

integer

The number of entries per page.

10

RequestId

string

The request ID.

473469C7-AA6F-4DC5-B3DB-A3DC0DE3C83E

PageNumber

integer

The page number.

1

TotalCount

integer

The total number of queried maintenance attributes.

100

MaintenanceAttributes

object

MaintenanceAttribute

array<object>

The maintenance attributes.

array<object>

NotifyOnMaintenance

boolean

Indicates whether an event notification was sent before maintenance.

false

InstanceId

string

The instance ID.

i-bp67acfmxazb4p****

MaintenanceWindows

object

MaintenanceWindow

array<object>

The maintenance windows.

object

EndTime

string

The end time of the maintenance window.

18:00:00

StartTime

string

The start time of the maintenance window.

02:00:00

ActionOnMaintenance

object

The attributes of the maintenance action of the instance.

DefaultValue

string

The default maintenance action.

AutoRecover

Value

string

The current maintenance action. Valid values:

  • Stop: stops the instance.

  • AutoRecover: automatically recovers the instance.

  • AutoRedeploy: redeploys the instance, which may damage the data disks attached to the instance.

Stop

SupportedValues

object

SupportedValue

array

The supported maintenance actions.

string

The supported maintenance action.

Stop

Examples

Success response

JSON format

{
  "PageSize": 10,
  "RequestId": "473469C7-AA6F-4DC5-B3DB-A3DC0DE3C83E",
  "PageNumber": 1,
  "TotalCount": 100,
  "MaintenanceAttributes": {
    "MaintenanceAttribute": [
      {
        "NotifyOnMaintenance": false,
        "InstanceId": "i-bp67acfmxazb4p****",
        "MaintenanceWindows": {
          "MaintenanceWindow": [
            {
              "EndTime": "18:00:00",
              "StartTime": "02:00:00"
            }
          ]
        },
        "ActionOnMaintenance": {
          "DefaultValue": "AutoRecover",
          "Value": "Stop",
          "SupportedValues": {
            "SupportedValue": [
              "Stop"
            ]
          }
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}

Error codes

HTTP status code

Error code

Error message

Description

400 MissingParameter %s A parameter is not specified.
403 InvalidParameter %s
403 InstanceIdLimitExceeded %s More than 100 instance IDs are specified.
403 OperationDenied.NotInWhiteList %s You are not authorized to perform this operation. Try again when you are authorized.
404 InvalidInstanceId.NotFound The specified InstanceId does not exist. The specified instanceId is invalid.

See Error Codes for a complete list.

Release notes

See Release Notes for a complete list.