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Elastic Compute Service:DescribeEvents

Last Updated:Aug 24, 2026

Queries cloud disk risk events.

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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

ebs:DescribeEvents

none

*All Resource

*

None None

Request parameters

Parameter

Type

Required

Description

Example

RegionId

string

Yes

The region ID. You can call DescribeRegions to query the list of regions supported by EBS Lens.

cn-hangzhou

EventName

string

No

The event name. Valid values:

  • NoSnapshot: data protection

  • BurstIOTriggered: burst I/O

  • CostOptimizationNeeded: cost optimization

  • DiskSpecNotMatchedWithInstance: instance and disk specification mismatch

  • DiskIONo4kAligned: non-4K aligned read/write

  • DiskIOHang: disk IOHang occurred

  • InstanceIOPSExceedInstanceMaxLimit: instance IOPS reached the upper limit

  • InstanceBPSExceedInstanceMaxLimit: instance BPS reached the upper limit

  • DiskIOPSExceedInstanceMaxLimit: disk IOPS reached the instance upper limit

  • DiskBPSExceedInstanceMaxLimit: disk BPS reached the instance upper limit

  • DiskIOPSExceedDiskMaxLimit: disk IOPS reached the disk upper limit

  • DiskBPSExceedDiskMaxLimit: disk BPS reached the disk upper limit

DiskIOHang

ResourceId

string

No

The resource ID.

d-bp67acfmxazb4p****

ResourceType

string

No

The resource type. Valid values:

  • disk: cloud disk

disk

Status

string

No

The event status. Valid values:

  • WillExecute: pending

  • Executing: processing

  • Executed: processed

  • Ignore: ignored

  • Expired: expired

  • Deleted: deleted

WillExecute

StartTime

string

No

The start time of the event. Specify the time in the ISO 8601 standard in the yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ format. The time must be in UTC.

2023-06-01T03:00:00Z

EndTime

string

No

The end time of the event. Specify the time in the ISO 8601 standard in the yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ format. The time must be in UTC.

2023-06-01T04:00:00Z

MaxResults

integer

No

The maximum number of entries per page for a paged query. If you specify this parameter, the MaxResults and NextToken parameters are used together for the query.

Valid values: 1 to 100.

Default value: 10.

10

NextToken

string

No

The pagination token. Set this parameter to the NextToken value returned in the previous API call.

AAAAAdDWBF2****

EventLevel

string

No

The event level. Valid values:

  • INFO: Notification.

  • WARN: Warning.

  • CRITICAL: Critical.

WARN

Response elements

Element

Type

Description

Example

object

Schema of Response

RequestId

string

Id of the request

473469C7-AA6F-4DC5-B3DB-A3DC0DE3****

TotalCount

integer

The total number of entries returned for the paged query.

1

NextToken

string

The token for the next query. If NextToken is empty, no more results exist.

AAAAAdDWBF2****

ResourceEvents

array<object>

The list of events.

object

EventType

string

The event type. Valid values:

  1. Notification

  2. SystemException

  3. Alert

Alert

EventName

string

The event name. Valid values:

  • NoSnapshot: data protection

  • BurstIOTriggered: burst I/O

  • CostOptimizationNeeded: cost optimization

  • DiskSpecNotMatchedWithInstance: instance and disk specification mismatch

  • DiskIONo4kAligned: non-4K aligned read/write

  • DiskIOHang: disk IOHang occurred

  • InstanceIOPSExceedInstanceMaxLimit: instance IOPS reached the upper limit

  • InstanceBPSExceedInstanceMaxLimit: instance BPS reached the upper limit

  • DiskIOPSExceedInstanceMaxLimit: disk IOPS reached the instance upper limit

  • DiskBPSExceedInstanceMaxLimit: disk BPS reached the instance upper limit

  • DiskIOPSExceedDiskMaxLimit: disk IOPS reached the disk upper limit

  • DiskBPSExceedDiskMaxLimit: disk BPS reached the disk upper limit

DiskIOHang

ResourceId

string

The resource ID.

d-bp67acfmxazb4p****

ResourceType

string

The resource type.

disk

Status

string

The event status. Valid values:

  1. WillExecute: pending

  2. Executing: processing

  3. Executed: processed

  4. Ignore: ignored

  5. Expired: expired

  6. Deleted: deleted

WillExecute

StartTime

string

The start time of the event. This value is a timestamp in milliseconds.

1684204822000

Description

string

The event description.

You can purchase 4296 provisioned IOPS for cost optimization. Based on your usage over the past 7 days, costs are estimated to decrease by 16%

RecommendAction

string

The recommended action after the event occurs. Valid values:

  • ModifyDiskSpec: change disk specifications

  • CreateSnapshot: create a snapshot

  • ResizeDisk: expand disk capacity

  • AdjustProvision: adjust provisioned performance

  • ModifyInstanceSpec: change instance specifications

AdjustProvision

RecommendParams

string

The parameters for the recommended action after the event occurs.

4296

EventLevel

string

The event level. Valid values:

  1. INFO

  2. WARN

  3. CRITICAL

INFO

EndTime

string

The end time of the event. This value is a timestamp in milliseconds.

1679538083000

ExtraAttributes

string

The additional properties. Possible fields:

  • EcsInstanceId: the ID of the ECS instance to which the cloud disk is attached.

  • Adapter: the mount point of the cloud disk.

{\"EcsInstanceId\":\"i-uf6dkn9qpcw6y94g7ag7\",\"Adapter\":\"hda\"}

Examples

Success response

JSON format

{
  "RequestId": "473469C7-AA6F-4DC5-B3DB-A3DC0DE3****",
  "TotalCount": 1,
  "NextToken": "AAAAAdDWBF2****",
  "ResourceEvents": [
    {
      "EventType": "Alert",
      "EventName": "DiskIOHang",
      "ResourceId": "d-bp67acfmxazb4p****\n",
      "ResourceType": "disk",
      "Status": "WillExecute",
      "StartTime": "1684204822000",
      "Description": "可通过购买4296预配置IOPS以获得成本优化,根据您过往7天使用情况,预计成本可以下降16%。",
      "RecommendAction": "AdjustProvision",
      "RecommendParams": "4296",
      "EventLevel": "INFO",
      "EndTime": "1679538083000",
      "ExtraAttributes": "{\\\"EcsInstanceId\\\":\\\"i-uf6dkn9qpcw6y94g7ag7\\\",\\\"Adapter\\\":\\\"hda\\\"}"
    }
  ]
}

Error codes

HTTP status code

Error code

Error message

Description

400 App.NumberExceed The number of apps exceeded.
400 DocumentConvertFailed.ExceedFileSizeLimit The conversion has been failed, exceed file size limit. english description1
400 Duplicate.TagKey The Tag.N.Key contain duplicate key.
400 IdempotentParameterMismatch The specified parameter has changed while using an already used clientToken. The request and a previous request contains the same client token but different parameters.
400 InvalidDiskSize.NotSupported The specified parameter size is not valid.
400 InvalidParameter The parameter %s is invalid. The specified parameter value is invalid.
400 InvalidParameter.Conflict The specified parameter %s and %s are not blank at the same time.
400 InvalidParameter.EndTime The specified parameter EndTime is earlier than StartTime.
400 InvalidParameter.Format Specified parameter format is not valid. english description
400 InvalidParameter.TooManyDataQueried Too many data queried.
500 InternalError The request processing has failed due to some unknown error, exception or failure. An internal error has occurred.
403 AliCroup2CloudUserCannotBuyNotInnerCommodity There is no group cloud commodity label, and users within the group are not allowed to purchase. There is no group cloud commodity label, and users within the group are not allowed to purchase.
403 Forbidden User is not authorized to operate. You are not authorized to manage the resource. Check the account permissions or contact the Alibaba Cloud account.
403 Forbidden.Action User is not authorized to operate this action. You are not authorized to perform this operation. Check the account permissions or contact the Alibaba Cloud account.
403 IncorrectDiskStatus.CreatingSnapshot A previous snapshot creation is in process.
403 InvalidAccountStatus.NotEnoughBalance Your account does not have enough balance.
403 InvalidDiskCategory.NotSupported The specified disk category is not supported.
404 InvalidApi.NotFound Specified api is not found, please check your url and method.
404 NoSuchResource The specified resource does not exist. The specified resource does not exist.
504 RequestTimeout The request is timeout, please try again later. The request has timed out. Try again later.

See Error Codes for a complete list.

Release notes

See Release Notes for a complete list.