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DescribeBaseMetrics

Last updated: 2023-08-11 16:10:58

1. API Description

Domain name for API request: monitor.tencentcloudapi.com.

This API is used to get the attributes of basic metrics.

A maximum of 20 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: DescribeBaseMetrics.
Version Yes String Common Params. The value used for this API: 2018-07-24.
Region No String Common Params. This parameter is not required for this API.
Namespace Yes String Service namespace. Tencent Cloud services have different namespaces. For more information on service namespaces, see the monitoring metric documentation of each service. For example, see CVM Monitoring Metrics for the namespace of CVM
MetricName No String Metric name. Tencent Cloud services have different metric names. For more information on metric names, see the monitoring metric documentation of each service. For example, see CVM Monitoring Metrics for the metric names of CVM
Dimensions.N No Array of String Filter by dimension. This parameter is optional.

3. Output Parameters

Parameter Name Type Description
MetricSet Array of MetricSet Listed of queried metric descriptions
RequestId String The unique request ID, which is returned for each request. RequestId is required for locating a problem.

4. Example

Example1 Getting the list of monitoring metrics

This example shows you how to query the types of basic monitoring metrics under the corresponding namespace.

Input Example

https://monitor.tencentcloudapi.com/?Action=DescribeBaseMetrics
&Namespace=QCE/CVM
&MetricName=AccOuttraffic
&<Common request parameters>

Output Example

{
    "Response": {
        "RequestId": "15e8eb48-e445-48b5-97ca-985908e207bb",
        "MetricSet": [
            {
                "Namespace": "QCE/CVM",
                "MetricName": "AccOuttraffic",
                "MetricCName": "Public network outbound traffic",
                "MetricEName": "the out traffic",
                "Unit": "MB",
                "UnitCname": "",
                "Period": [
                    10,
                    60,
                    300,
                    3600,
                    86400
                ],
                "Periods": [
                    {
                        "Period": "10",
                        "StatType": [
                            "sum"
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "Period": "60",
                        "StatType": [
                            "sum"
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "Period": "300",
                        "StatType": [
                            "sum"
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "Period": "3600",
                        "StatType": [
                            "sum"
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "Period": "86400",
                        "StatType": [
                            "sum"
                        ]
                    }
                ],
                "Dimensions": [
                    {
                        "Dimensions": [
                            "InstanceId"
                        ]
                    }
                ],
                "Meaning": {
                    "En": "Average outbound traffic per second of public ENI",
                    "Zh": ""
                }
            }
        ]
    }
}

Example2 Getting the list of monitoring metrics (QCE/CDB)

This example shows you how to query the types of basic monitoring metrics under the corresponding namespace.

Input Example

https://monitor.tencentcloudapi.com/?Action=DescribeBaseMetrics
&Namespace=QCE/CDB
&MetricName=BytesReceived
&<Common request parameters>

Output Example

{
    "Response": {
        "RequestId": "2102703c-a1bb-4f71-9eb8-58cdfb544590",
        "MetricSet": [
            {
                "Namespace": "QCE/CDB",
                "MetricName": "BytesReceived",
                "MetricCName": "",
                "MetricEName": "",
                "Unit": "Bps",
                "UnitCname": "",
                "Period": [
                    60,
                    300,
                    3600,
                    86400
                ],
                "Periods": [
                    {
                        "Period": "60",
                        "StatType": [
                            "max"
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "Period": "300",
                        "StatType": [
                            "max"
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "Period": "3600",
                        "StatType": [
                            "max"
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "Period": "86400",
                        "StatType": [
                            "max"
                        ]
                    }
                ],
                "Dimensions": [
                    {
                        "Dimensions": [
                            "InstanceId",
                            "InstanceType"
                        ]
                    }
                ],
                "Meaning": {
                    "En": "Amount of accepted data",
                    "Zh": ""
                }
            }
        ]
    }
}

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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
UnsupportedOperation Unsupported operation.
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