DescribeInstancesStatus

You can query the status of an instance with its ID.
If no parameter is defined, the status of a certain number of instances under the current account will be returned. The number is specified by Limit and is 20 by default.

A maximum of 40 requests can be initiated per second for this API.

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2. Input Parameters

The following request parameter list only provides API request parameters and some common parameters. For the complete common parameter list, see Common Request Parameters.

Parameter Name	Required	Type	Description
Action	Yes	String	Common Params. The value used for this API: DescribeInstancesStatus.
Version	Yes	String	Common Params. The value used for this API: 2017-03-12.
Region	Yes	String	Common Params. For more information, please see the list of regions supported by the product.
InstanceIds.N	No	Array of String	Query by instance ID(s). For example, instance ID: `ins-xxxxxxxx`. For the specific format, refer to section `Ids.N` of the API Introduction. You can query up to 100 instances in each request.
Offset	No	Integer	Offset; default value: 0. For more information on `Offset`, see the corresponding section in API Introduction.
Limit	No	Integer	Number of results returned; default value: 20; maximum: 100. For more information on `Limit`, see the corresponding section in API Introduction.

3. Output Parameters

Parameter Name	Type	Description
TotalCount	Integer	Number of instance states meeting the filtering conditions.
InstanceStatusSet	Array of InstanceStatus	Instance status list.
RequestId	String	The unique request ID, generated by the server, will be returned for every request (if the request fails to reach the server for other reasons, the request will not obtain a RequestId). RequestId is required for locating a problem.

4. Example

Example1 Querying the list of instance status

This example shows you how to query the status of two specified instances.

Input Example

GET https://cvm.intl.tencentcloudapi.com/?Action=DescribeInstancesStatus
&InstanceIds.0=ins-r8hr2upy
&InstanceIds.1=ins-5d8a23rs
&Offset=0
&Limit=2
&<Common request parameters>

Output Example

{
    "Response": {
        "TotalCount": 2,
        "InstanceStatusSet": [
            {
                "InstanceId": "ins-r8hr2upy",
                "InstanceState": "RUNNING"
            },
            {
                "InstanceId": "ins-5d8a23rs",
                "InstanceState": "STOPPED"
            }
        ],
        "RequestId": "6ef60bec-0242-43af-bb20-270359fb54a7"
    }
}

5. Developer Resources

SDK

TencentCloud API 3.0 integrates SDKs that support various programming languages to make it easier for you to call APIs.

Command Line Interface

Tencent Cloud CLI 3.0

6. Error Code

The following only lists the error codes related to the API business logic. For other error codes, see Common Error Codes.

Error Code	Description
InternalServerError	Internal error.
InvalidFilter	Invalid filter.
InvalidInstanceId.Malformed	Invalid instance `ID`. The specified instance `ID` has an invalid format. For example, `ins-1122` has an invalid `ID` length.
InvalidParameterValue	Incorrect parameter value.
InvalidParameterValue.InstanceIdMalformed	Invalid instance ID. Please enter a valid ID, such as ins-xxxxxxxx (“x” represents a lower-case letter or a number).
InvalidParameterValue.LimitExceeded	The number of parameter values exceeds the limit.
UnauthorizedOperation.InvalidToken	Check if the token is valid.
UnsupportedOperation	Unsupported operation.

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