boto equivalent of aws client command

Question

I have this command that works as expected. But I will like to use boto instead.

aws cloudwatch get-metric-statistics \
    --region ap-south-1 \
    --namespace AWS/RDS \
    --metric-name DBLoad  \
    --period 60 \
    --statistics Average \
    --start-time 2023-06-12T21:00:00Z \
    --end-time 2023-06-12T23:59:00Z \
    --dimensions Name=DBInstanceIdentifier,Value=sql-rds

Does boto support all the parameters?

Answer 1

The AWS CloudWatch functionality, including the get_metric_statistics operation, is available in Boto3

See here: Boto3 documentation - CloudWatch Client - get_metric_statistics

Using Boto3 - the code would be :

import boto3
from datetime import datetime, timedelta

client = boto3.client('cloudwatch', region_name='ap-south-1')

response = client.get_metric_statistics(
    Namespace='AWS/RDS',
    MetricName='DBLoad',
    Dimensions=[
        {
            'Name': 'DBInstanceIdentifier',
            'Value': 'sql-rds'
        },
    ],
    StartTime=datetime(2023, 6, 12, 21, 0, 0),
    EndTime=datetime(2023, 6, 12, 23, 59, 0),
    Period=60,
    Statistics=['Average']
)

print(response)

N.B.
Boto is no longer officially maintained by AWS
Boto documentation might not be up-to-date
It does not provide the same level of support for AWS services as Boto3.

However, if you need to use Boto the documentation is here: boto.ec2.cloudwatch

Using Boto - the code would be :

import boto

conn = boto.connect_cloudwatch()
region = 'ap-south-1'

namespace = 'AWS/RDS'
metric_name = 'DBLoad'
dimensions = {'DBInstanceIdentifier': 'sql-rds'}

start_time = '2023-06-12T21:00:00Z'
end_time = '2023-06-12T23:59:00Z'

period = 60
statistics = ['Average']

response = conn.get_metric_statistics(
    period=period,
    start_time=start_time,
    end_time=end_time,
    metric_name=metric_name,
    namespace=namespace,
    statistics=statistics,
    dimensions=dimensions,
    region=region
)

print(response)