List Cloud Monitoring Zones with Pitchfork

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NOTE: Pitchfork is currently not available. The API commands for exporting the image will have to be run manually. These commands are provided below:

API Calls

The below API calls can be used to obtain a token and check the source IPs for pollers in each monitoring region. You'll just need to replace the following variables:

$ACCOUNT_ID = Your account number.

$USERNAME = The user you log into your account with.

$APIKEY = Your user's API Key.

$TOKEN = The Auth token retrieved from Step 1.

1. Use your user and API key to obtain an auth token. This command will provide a long alpha-numeric string that is the token.

curl -s https://identity.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2.0/tokens \
  -X POST \
  -d '{"auth":{"RAX-KSKEY:apiKeyCredentials":{"username":"$USERNAME
","apiKey":"$APIKEY"}}}' \
  -H "Content-type: application/json" | grep -o '"token":{[^}]*}' | grep -o '"id":"[^"]*' | cut -d'"' -f4

2. Run the following command, replace $ACCOUNT_ID and $TOKEN with your token retrieved on Step 1.

curl -X GET \
  "https://monitoring.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0/$ACCOUNT_ID/monitoring_zones" \
  -H "X-Auth-Token: $TOKEN" \
  -H "Accept: application/json"

3. After issuing this API call you'll receive a list of regions with a set of source IPs used for monitoring pollers. You can allow these IPs through any filters you have to ensure monitoring can reach its destination.

This article describes how to list the Cloud Monitoring zones and source IP addresses with the Rackspace
Cloud API tool, Pitchfork.

Log in to Pitchfork

Log in to Pitchfork at https://pitchfork.rax.io/.

To learn how to log in to and use Pitchfork, refer to Pitchfork—the Rackspace Cloud API web application.

List the Cloud Monitoring zones with Pitchfork

1. After you log in to Pitchfork, click on the Cloud Monitoring icon to pull up the Cloud Monitoring API calls.

2. Navigate to the Zones section to find the List Monitoring Zone API call. Then, click Details to expand the call.

3. Click Send API Call. The Response Body output of the API call displays the Cloud Monitoring zones and source IP addresses, as shown in the following example:

   {
       "source_ips": [
           "2001:4800:7902:0001::/64", 
           "50.56.142.128/26"
       ], 
       "id": "mzdfw", 
       "country_code": "US", 
       "label": "Dallas Fort Worth (DFW)"
   }

You can now perform the List Monitoring Zone API call.