API Reference

Learn about the available Rackspace Monitoring API resources and operations, and see request and response examples.

Note

You can also perform operations by using the Rackspace Monitoring client

Cloud Control Panel.

• Account
  • Get account information
  • Update properties on an account
  • Get Limits
  • Get audit information
• Entities
  • Create an entity
  • List entities for an account
  • Get an entity by ID
  • Update an entity by ID
  • Delete entity by ID
• Check types
  • List check types
  • Get a check type by ID
• Monitoring zones
  • List monitoring zones
  • Get monitoring zone by ID
  • Perform a traceroute from a monitoring zone
  • Create a private monitoring zone
  • Update a private monitor zone by ID
  • Delete a private monitoring zone by ID
• Checks
  • Create a check
  • Test a check
  • Test a check with debug
  • Test an existing check
  • List checks for an entity
  • Get a check by ID
  • Update a check by ID
  • Delete a check by ID
• Metrics
  • Cumulative and instantaneous metrics
  • Data granularity
  • Data point expiration
  • Metrics API operations
  • List metrics by check ID
  • Get data points by metric name
• Notification types
  • Email notification type
  • Webhook notification type
  • PagerDuty notification type
  • SMS notification type
  • VictorOps notification type
  • Notification types API operations
  • Get a notification type by ID
• Notifications
  • Create a notification
  • Test a notification
  • List notifications
  • Test an existing notification
  • Update a notification
  • Delete a notification
• Notification plans
  • Create a notification plan
  • List notification plans
  • Get a notification plan by ID
  • Update a notification plan by ID
  • Delete a notification plan
• Alarms
  • Create an alarm
  • Test an alarm
  • List alarms
  • Get alarm by ID
  • Update alarm by ID
  • Delete alarm by ID
• Alarm examples
  • List alarm examples
  • Get alarm example by ID
  • Evaluate alarm example
• Alarm notification history
  • List alarm notification history
  • List alarm notification history by check ID
  • List a single alarm notification
• Changelogs
  • List alarm changelogs
  • Get alarm changelogs by entity ID
• Suppressions
  • Create suppression
  • List suppressions
  • Get a suppression by ID
  • Update a suppression
  • Delete suppression
• Suppression logs
  • List suppression logs
• Views
  • Get overview
  • Get alarms view by notification plan
• Agents
  • Security
  • Agent IDs
  • Agents API operations
  • List agent connections
• Agent tokens
  • Create an agent token
  • List agent tokens
  • Get an agent token by ID
  • Update an agent token
  • Delete an agent token
• Agent host information
  • Get agent host info types
  • Get CPU information
  • Get disk information
  • Get host filesystem information
  • Get host memory information
  • Get host network interface information
  • Get host process information
  • Get host system information
  • Get information about host users
• Agent targets
  • List agent check targets