Trying to setup a Simple Autoscaling Policy for aws autoscal

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Trying to setup a Simple Autoscaling Policy for aws autoscaling Policy Is the name parameter listed here the alarm name that triggers the autoscaling It is not clear what `The name of the dimension ` is or what the the trigger value should be <https www pulumi com registry packages aws api docs autoscaling policy name python> Does anyone know what the correct parameters should be

sparse-gold-10561 · Answer

looks like there is some explanation on the metrics page <https www pulumi com registry packages aws api docs cloudwatch metricalarm >

sparse-gold-10561 · Answer

still doesn t really explain what the name parameter is on the policy class

alert-glass-49407 · Answer

I ran into this previously there is an issue with the pulumi docs generation process where if a parent resource type and one of the Supporting Types share a parameter name the supporting type s description overwrites the description of the parent s attribute

alert-glass-49407 · Answer

in this case specificaly probably <https www pulumi com registry packages aws api docs autoscaling policy policytargettrackingconfigurationcustomizedmetricspecificationmetricdimension|https www pulumi com registry packages aws api docs autoscaling policy policytargettrackingconfigurationcu edmetricspecificationmetricdimension> is the supporting type that conflicted

alert-glass-49407 · Answer

when this happens you can check the terraform docs usually <https registry terraform io providers hashicorp aws latest docs resources autoscaling policy argument reference>

sparse-gold-10561 · Answer

hmm that first link is if you re specifying TargetTracking im only using Simple so the name parameter seems to be some kind of dimension on cloudwatch alarm or metric

sparse-gold-10561 · Answer

ive went and did it the reverse way with the cloudwatch metric alarm driving the linkage to the ASG based on the MetricAlarm link