Use the following information to learn how to authenticate, send API requests, and complete basic operations by using the Rackspace Metrics API.
For more detailed information about the Rackspace API operations, see the Query API reference and Ingestion API reference.
Important
The ingestion API currently is available only as part of the Early Access program.
- Get your credentials
- Send API requests to Rackspace Metrics
- Authenticate to the Rackspace cloud
- Rackspace Metrics concepts
- Upload metrics data to the Rackspace Metrics database
- Retrieve metrics
To start using the API and run the examples in this section, you need the following items:
- Rackspace Cloud account. If you don’t have an account, sign up for one on the Rackspace website.
- Command line tool or browser client for communicating with the API service.