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Searching Metrics

GET /api/v1/metric/search?

  

Curl examples:

curl -X GET "https://YOUR-API-KEY-HERE@api.hostedgraphite.com/api/v1/metric/search?pattern=foo.bar.*"

Search for metrics that match the pattern foo.bar.*

curl -X GET "https://YOUR-API-KEY-HERE@api.hostedgraphite.com/api/v1/metric/search?pattern=foo.bar.*&only_updated_after=5h"

  

Search for metrics that match the pattern foo.bar.* that only received datapoints in the last 5 hours.

Available Parameters:

  • pattern [REQUIRED]
    Format: foo.bar.*
    Metric pattern to search for.
  • only_updated_after
    Format: only_updated_after=1h | ony_updated_after=5h
    To limit search results for metrics that only received datapoints in the last n hours.
  • only_updated_before
    Format: only_updated_before=1mon | only_updated_before=5mon
    To limit search results for metrics that have not received datapoints in the last n months.
  • with_times
    Format: with_times=true
    To return the first (“created_at”) and last (“last_updated”) seen timestamp for that metric.
  • page
    Format: page=4 | page=2
    Return the nth page of results, for searches that return more than the maximum page size (default maximum size: 100).

  

Response format:

HTTP/1.1 200
Content-Type: application/json

{
       "results": ["foo.bar.1", "foo.bar.2"],
       "metrics_matched": 2,
       "total_metrics": 12345,
       "next_page": 2,
}

   

Response format with ‘&with_times=true’:

HTTP/1.1 200
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "results": ["foo.bar.1", "foo.bar.2"],
  "metrics_matched": 2,
  "total_metrics": 12345,
  "times": {
    "foo.bar.1": {
      "created_at": 1234567890,
      "last_updated": 1234567890
    },
    "foo.bar.2": {
      "created_at": 1234567890,
      "last_updated": 1234567890
    }
  }
}

  

Response Parameters:

  • results
    List of metrics that match the specified pattern.
  • metrics_matched
    The number of metrics matched by this pattern.
  • total_metrics
    The total number of metrics on the account.
  • next_page
    If the total returned metrics exceeds the page size (default 100), indicates the next page in the sequence.
  • times
    An array of dictionaries with the filtered metrics as keys containing the “created_at” and “last_updated” timestamps of the metric.

  

Status Codes:

  • 200 - Success
  • 400 - Invalid format.

  

Legacy Parameters:

  • not_updated_in
    Format: not_updated_in=1y | not_updated_in=5y
    To limit search results for metrics that only received datapoints in the last n hours.
    This has the same functionality as only_updated_after.
      

Deleting Metrics

POST /api/v1/metric/delete

  

Curl example:

curl -d "pattern=foo.bar.*" "https://YOUR-API-KEY-HERE@api.hostedgraphite.com/api/v1/metric/delete/"

Delete all metrics that match the pattern foo.bar.*.

  

Status Codes:

  • 200 - Success
  • 400 - Invalid request.