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Tag API

Table of Contents

  1. Listing All Tags
  2. Search Tagged Metrics
  3. Deleting Tagged Metrics
  4. Monitoring your Tagged Metrics usage

Listing All Tags

End Point:

GET /api/v1/tags

  

Curl examples:

curl -X GET "https://YOUR-API-KEY-HERE@api.hostedgraphite.com/api/v1/tags"

Search for all the tag lists

  

Response format:

HTTP/1.1 200
Content-Type: application/json

["cluster", "host", "process", "service", "name"]

Status Codes:

  • 200 - Success

  

Search Tagged Metrics

End Point:

GET /api/v1/tags/findSeries?
GET /api/v1/tags/<tagname>?

  

Curl examples:

curl -X GET "https://YOUR-API-KEY-HERE@api.hostedgraphite.com/api/v1/tags/findSeries?expr=cluster=prod"
curl -X GET "https://YOUR-API-KEY-HERE@api.hostedgraphite.com/api/v1/tags/findSeries?expr=cluster=prod&host=egg-0001"

  

Search for tagged metric/series that match the expression cluster=prod

curl -X GET "https://YOUR-API-KEY-HERE@api.hostedgraphite.com/api/v1/tags/host?filter=prod-00*&limit=3"

Search for tagname host that match the value prod and only show 3 matching results.

  

Available Parameters:

  • expr
    Format: expr=tagname=tagvalue or expr=tagname1=tagvalue1&tagname2=tagvalue2
    To search for the tagged series that match the expression, users should include both tagname and value in the query.
  • filter
    Format: filter=prod-00*
    Tag value to search for.
  • limit
    Format: limit=3
    To limit the amount of search results to the given number.
     

Response format with ‘?expr=cluster=prod’:

HTTP/1.1 200
Content-Type: application/json

["0.queue_backlog;cluster=prod;host=prod-egg-0021;process=grind;service=data_process", "2.queue_backlog;cluster=prod;host=prod-egg-0021;process=grind;service=data_process", "0.items;cluster=prod;host=prod-egg-001;process=dump;service=data_process"]

   

Response format with ‘?filter=machine-000*&limit=3’:

HTTP/1.1 200
Content-Type: application/json

{"tag": "host",
 "values": [{"count": 59, "value": "machine-0001"},
            {"count": 57, "value": "machine-0002"},
            {"count": 59, "value": "machine-0003"}]
}

  

Response Parameters:

  • tag
    Tag name.
  • values
    Tag value.

Status Codes:

  • 200 - Success
  • 400 - Invalid format
  • 501 - Not implemented

   

Deleting Tagged Metrics

End Point:

POST /api/v1/tags/delSeries

   

Curl example:

curl -X POST "https://YOUR-API-KEY-HERE@api.hostedgraphite.com/api/v1/tags/delSeries" --data-urlencode "path=foo.bar;tag1=val1;tag2=val2"

  

Delete all seires that match the path foo.bar and tag1=val1 and tag2=val2.

  

Status Codes:

  • 200 - Success
  • 400 - Invalid request.
   

Monitoring your Tagged Metrics usage

If you have sent tagged metrics then the number of tagged metrics you have sent will be displayed in the metrics panel of your Homepage:

  

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