**To display information about alarms associated with a metric**

The following example uses the ``describe-alarms-for-metric`` command to display information about
any alarms associated with the Amazon EC2 CPUUtilization metric and the instance with the ID i-0c986c72.::

  aws cloudwatch describe-alarms-for-metric --metric-name CPUUtilization --namespace AWS/EC2 --dimensions Name=InstanceId,Value=i-0c986c72

Output::

  {
      "MetricAlarms": [
          {
              "EvaluationPeriods": 10,
              "AlarmArn": "arn:aws:cloudwatch:us-east-1:111122223333:alarm:myHighCpuAlarm2",
              "StateUpdatedTimestamp": "2013-10-30T03:03:51.479Z",
              "AlarmConfigurationUpdatedTimestamp": "2013-10-30T03:03:50.865Z",
              "ComparisonOperator": "GreaterThanOrEqualToThreshold",
              "AlarmActions": [
                  "arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:111122223333:NotifyMe"
              ],
              "Namespace": "AWS/EC2",
              "AlarmDescription": "CPU usage exceeds 70 percent",
              "StateReasonData": "{\"version\":\"1.0\",\"queryDate\":\"2013-10-30T03:03:51.479+0000\",\"startDate\":\"2013-10-30T02:08:00.000+0000\",\"statistic\":\"Average\",\"period\":300,\"recentDatapoints\":[40.698,39.612,42.432,39.796,38.816,42.28,42.854,40.088,40.760000000000005,41.316],\"threshold\":70.0}",
              "Period": 300,
              "StateValue": "OK",
              "Threshold": 70.0,
              "AlarmName": "myHighCpuAlarm2",
              "Dimensions": [
                  {
                      "Name": "InstanceId",
                      "Value": "i-0c986c72"
                  }
              ],
              "Statistic": "Average",
              "StateReason": "Threshold Crossed: 10 datapoints were not greater than or equal to the threshold (70.0). The most recent datapoints: [40.760000000000005, 41.316].",
              "InsufficientDataActions": [],
              "OKActions": [],
              "ActionsEnabled": true,
              "MetricName": "CPUUtilization"
          },
          {
              "EvaluationPeriods": 2,
              "AlarmArn": "arn:aws:cloudwatch:us-east-1:111122223333:alarm:myHighCpuAlarm",
              "StateUpdatedTimestamp": "2014-04-09T18:59:06.442Z",
              "AlarmConfigurationUpdatedTimestamp": "2014-04-09T22:26:05.958Z",
              "ComparisonOperator": "GreaterThanThreshold",
              "AlarmActions": [
                  "arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:111122223333:HighCPUAlarm"
              ],
              "Namespace": "AWS/EC2",
              "AlarmDescription": "CPU usage exceeds 70 percent",
              "StateReasonData": "{\"version\":\"1.0\",\"queryDate\":\"2014-04-09T18:59:06.419+0000\",\"startDate\":\"2014-04-09T18:44:00.000+0000\",\"statistic\":\"Average\",\"period\":300,\"recentDatapoints\":[38.958,40.292],\"threshold\":70.0}",
              "Period": 300,
              "StateValue": "OK",
              "Threshold": 70.0,
              "AlarmName": "myHighCpuAlarm",
              "Dimensions": [
                  {
                      "Name": "InstanceId",
                      "Value": "i-0c986c72"
                  }
              ],
              "Statistic": "Average",
              "StateReason": "Threshold Crossed: 2 datapoints were not greater than the threshold (70.0). The most recent datapoints: [38.958, 40.292].",
              "InsufficientDataActions": [],
              "OKActions": [],
              "ActionsEnabled": false,
              "MetricName": "CPUUtilization"
          }
      ]
  }