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  "$schema": "https://json-structure.org/meta/core/v0/#",
  "$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-ec2-auto-scaling/refs/heads/main/json-structure/ec2-auto-scaling-metric-stat-structure.json",
  "name": "MetricStat",
  "description": "<p>This structure defines the CloudWatch metric to return, along with the statistic, period, and unit.</p> <p>For more information about the CloudWatch terminology below, see <a href=\"https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/cloudwatch_concepts.html\">Amazon CloudWatch concepts</a> in the <i>Amazon CloudWatch User Guide</i>.</p>",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "Metric": {
      "allOf": [
        {
          "$ref": "#/components/schemas/Metric"
        },
        {
          "description": "The CloudWatch metric to return, including the metric name, namespace, and dimensions. To get the exact metric name, namespace, and dimensions, inspect the <a href=\"https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/APIReference/API_Metric.html\">Metric</a> object that is returned by a call to <a href=\"https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/APIReference/API_ListMetrics.html\">ListMetrics</a>."
        }
      ]
    },
    "Stat": {
      "allOf": [
        {
          "$ref": "#/components/schemas/XmlStringMetricStat"
        },
        {
          "description": "<p>The statistic to return. It can include any CloudWatch statistic or extended statistic. For a list of valid values, see the table in <a href=\"https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/cloudwatch_concepts.html#Statistic\">Statistics</a> in the <i>Amazon CloudWatch User Guide</i>.</p> <p>The most commonly used metrics for predictive scaling are <code>Average</code> and <code>Sum</code>.</p>"
        }
      ]
    },
    "Unit": {
      "allOf": [
        {
          "$ref": "#/components/schemas/MetricUnit"
        },
        {
          "description": "The unit to use for the returned data points. For a complete list of the units that CloudWatch supports, see the <a href=\"https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/APIReference/API_MetricDatum.html\">MetricDatum</a> data type in the <i>Amazon CloudWatch API Reference</i>."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "Metric",
    "Stat"
  ]
}