**To view events for an environment** The following command retrieves events for an environment named ``my-env``:: aws elasticbeanstalk describe-events --environment-name my-env Output (abbreviated):: { "Events": [ { "ApplicationName": "my-app", "EnvironmentName": "my-env", "Message": "Environment health has transitioned from Info to Ok.", "EventDate": "2015-08-20T07:06:53.535Z", "Severity": "INFO" }, { "ApplicationName": "my-app", "EnvironmentName": "my-env", "Severity": "INFO", "RequestId": "b7f3960b-4709-11e5-ba1e-07e16200da41", "Message": "Environment update completed successfully.", "EventDate": "2015-08-20T07:06:02.049Z" }, ... { "ApplicationName": "my-app", "EnvironmentName": "my-env", "Severity": "INFO", "RequestId": "ca8dfbf6-41ef-11e5-988b-651aa638f46b", "Message": "Using elasticbeanstalk-us-west-2-012445113685 as Amazon S3 storage bucket for environment data.", "EventDate": "2015-08-13T19:16:27.561Z" }, { "ApplicationName": "my-app", "EnvironmentName": "my-env", "Severity": "INFO", "RequestId": "cdfba8f6-41ef-11e5-988b-65638f41aa6b", "Message": "createEnvironment is starting.", "EventDate": "2015-08-13T19:16:26.581Z" } ] }