# PredictiveScalingMetricStat
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 This structure defines the CloudWatch metric to return, along with the statistic and unit. 

## Contents
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 ** Metric **   <a name="autoscaling-Type-PredictiveScalingMetricStat-Metric"></a>
 The CloudWatch metric to return, including the metric name, namespace, and dimensions. To get the exact metric name, namespace, and dimensions, inspect the [Metric](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/APIReference/API_Metric.html) object that is returned by a call to [ListMetrics](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/APIReference/API_ListMetrics.html).   
Type: [PredictiveScalingMetric](API_PredictiveScalingMetric.md) object  
Required: Yes

 ** Stat **   <a name="autoscaling-Type-PredictiveScalingMetricStat-Stat"></a>
 The statistic to return. It can include any CloudWatch statistic or extended statistic. For a list of valid values, see the table in [Statistics](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/cloudwatch_concepts.html#Statistic) in the *Amazon CloudWatch User Guide*.   
The most commonly used metrics for predictive scaling are `Average` and `Sum`.  
Type: String  
Pattern: `[\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\r\n\t]*`   
Required: Yes

 ** Unit **   <a name="autoscaling-Type-PredictiveScalingMetricStat-Unit"></a>
 The unit to use for the returned data points. For a complete list of the units that CloudWatch supports, see the [MetricDatum](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/APIReference/API_MetricDatum.html) data type in the *Amazon CloudWatch API Reference*.   
Type: String  
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1023.  
Pattern: `[\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\r\n\t]*`   
Required: No

## See Also
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For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
+  [AWS SDK for C\$1\$1](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForCpp/application-autoscaling-2016-02-06/PredictiveScalingMetricStat) 
+  [AWS SDK for Java V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaV2/application-autoscaling-2016-02-06/PredictiveScalingMetricStat) 
+  [AWS SDK for Ruby V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForRubyV3/application-autoscaling-2016-02-06/PredictiveScalingMetricStat)