---
title: "executePolicy"
slug: "compute-autoscaling-executepolicy"
updated: 2026-09-17T10:05:57Z
published: 2026-09-17T10:05:57Z
canonical: "api.ncloud-docs.com/compute-autoscaling-executepolicy"
---

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# executePolicy

## Overview

Perform a specified scaling policy.

## Request

### Request parameters

| Parameter name | Required | Type | Restrictions | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| policyName | Yes | String | Min: 1, Max: 255 | Scaling policy name to perform |
| autoScalingGroupName | Yes | String | Min: 1, Max: 255 | Enter the name of the auto scaling group that will perform the policy. |
| honorCooldown | No | Boolean | - | - Whether the cooldown time is observed Determine whether to comply if the time when this API is called is during a scaling action or cooldown time. `default : false` |
| responseFormatType | No | String |  | - Response result's format type Options: xml \| json Default: xml |

## Response

### Response body

- [CommonResponse](/docs/en/common-apidatatype-commonresponse)

## Examples

### Request example

```
{AUTOSCALILNG_API_URL}/executePolicy
?autoScalingGroupName=asg-0602b
&honorCooldown=true
&policyName=p-0602
```

### Response example

```
<executePolicyResponse>
   <requestId>0c811c22-cdd3-47e5-8d8b-434071de2e46</requestId>
   <returnCode>0</returnCode>
   <returnMessage>success</returnMessage>
</executePolicyResponse>
```

## Errors

Errors that may occur while using this action are listed below. For more information about common errors, see [NAVER Cloud Platform API](/docs/en/common-ncpapi-index).

| HTTP Response Code | Return code | Return message |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 400 | 50120 | An invalid or out-of-range value was supplied for the input parameter. |