Use Host Info operations can to gather information about an entity, or to build your own dashboards. This information is gathered on demand so that you have the most recent data. Some of the data that can be enumerated includes: operating system info, process lists, network configuration, and memory usage.

The following operations are the common agent host info API operations that you can use to get information about the host environment, resources, and logged in users. For the full list of supported agent host info, see Hostinfo checks

Get agent host info types

GET /agents/{agentId}/host_info_types

Get information about the types of host info data supported by the agent.

The following table shows the possible response codes for this operation:

Response Code	Name	Description
200	OK	The request completed.
400	Bad request	The system received an invalid value in a request.
401	Unauthorized	The system received a request from a user that is not authenticated.
403	Forbidden	The system received a request that the user is not authorized to make.
413	Over Limit	The response body is too large.
500	Internal Server Error	An unexpected condition was encountered.
503	Service Unavailable	The system is experiencing heavy load or another system failure.

Request

The following table shows the header parameters for the request:

Name	Type	Description
X-Auth-Token	String (Required)	A valid authentication token with administrative access. For details, see Get your credentials

Note

This operation does not accept a request body.

Response

Example Get agent host info types: JSON response

{
"timestamp": 1354038712351,
"info": {
"types": [
"cpus",
"disks",
"filesystems",
"memory",
"network_interfaces",
"nil",
"processes",
"system",
"who",
"date",
"sysctl"
]
}

Get CPU information

GET /agents/{agentId}/host_info/cpus

Get information about the host CPUs.

The following table shows the possible response codes for this operation:

Response Code	Name	Description
200	OK	The request completed.
400	Bad request	The system received an invalid value in a request.
401	Unauthorized	The system received a request from a user that is not authenticated.
403	Forbidden	The system received a request that the user is not authorized to make.
500	Internal Server Error	An unexpected condition was encountered.
503	Service Unavailable	The system is experiencing heavy load or another system failure.

Request

The following table shows the header parameters for the request:

Name	Type	Description
X-Auth-Token	String (Required)	A valid authentication token with administrative access. For details, see Get your credentials

Note

This operation does not accept a request body.

Response

Example Get CPU information: JSON response

{
"timestamp": 1354038712351,
"info": [
{
"name": "cpu.0",
"vendor": "Intel",
"model": "Core(TM) i7-2760QM CPU @ 2.40GHz",
"mhz": 2394,
"idle": 32872370,
"irq": 2320,
"soft_irq": 3390,
"nice": 10,
"sys": 247780,
"user": 235470,
"wait": 12180,
"total": 33373520,
"total_cores": 2,
"total_sockets": 2
},
{
"name": "cpu.1",
"vendor": "Intel",
"model": "Core(TM) i7-2760QM CPU @ 2.40GHz",
"mhz": 2394,
"idle": 32921490,
"soft_irq": 10910,
"sys": 239540,
"user": 236780,
"wait": 12020,
"total": 33420740,
"total_cores": 2,
"total_sockets": 2
}
]
}

Get disk information

GET /agents/{agentId}/host_info/disks

Get information about the disks available on the host.

The following table shows the possible response codes for this operation:

Response Code	Name	Description
200	OK	The request completed.
400	Bad request	The system received an invalid value in a request.
401	Unauthorized	The system received a request from a user that is not authenticated.
403	Forbidden	The system received a request that the user is not authorized to make.
500	Internal Server Error	An unexpected condition was encountered.
503	Service Unavailable	The system is experiencing heavy load or another system failure.

Request

The following table shows the header parameters for the request:

Name	Type	Description
X-Auth-Token	String (Required)	A valid authentication token with administrative access. For details, see Get your credentials

Note

This operation does not accept a request body.

Response

Example Get disk information: JSON response

{
"timestamp": 1354039239737,
"info": [
{
"read_bytes": 213685248,
"reads": 23758,
"rtime": 18160,
"write_bytes": 8399753216,
"writes": 2056309,
"wtime": 3341340,
"time": 458360,
"name": "/"
},
{
"read_bytes": 22974464,
"reads": 899,
"rtime": 440,
"write_bytes": 15360,
"writes": 8,
"time": 400,
"name": "/boot"
}
]
}

Get host filesystem information

GET /agents/{agentId}/host_info/filesystems

Get information about the filesystems on the host.

The following table shows the possible response codes for this operation:

Response Code	Name	Description
200	OK	The request completed.
400	Bad request	The system received an invalid value in a request.
401	Unauthorized	The system received a request from a user that is not authenticated.
403	Forbidden	The system received a request that the user is not authorized to make.
500	Internal Server Error	An unexpected condition was encountered.
503	Service Unavailable	The system is experiencing heavy load or another system failure.

Request

The following table shows the header parameters for the request:

Name	Type	Description
X-Auth-Token	String (Required)	A valid authentication token with administrative access. For details, see Get your credentials

Note

This operation does not accept a request body.

Response

Example Get host filesystem information: JSON response

{
"timestamp": 1354040333343,
"info": [
{
"dir_name": "/",
"dev_name": "/dev/mapper/dev-root",
"sys_type_name": "ext4",
"options": "rw,errors=remount-ro",
"free": 9095192,
"used": 10389956,
"avail": 8105396,
"total": 19485148,
"files": 1237888,
"free_files": 990331
}
]
}

Get host memory information

GET /agents/{agentId}/host_info/memory

Get information about the host memory use.

The following table shows the possible response codes for this operation:

Response Code	Name	Description
200	OK	The request completed.
400	Bad request	The system received an invalid value in a request.
401	Unauthorized	The system received a request from a user that is not authenticated.
403	Forbidden	The system received a request that the user is not authorized to make.
500	Internal Server Error	An unexpected condition was encountered.
503	Service Unavailable	The system is experiencing heavy load or another system failure.

Request

The following table shows the header parameters for the request:

Name	Type	Description
X-Auth-Token	String (Required)	A valid authentication token with administrative access. For details, see Get your credentials

Note

This operation does not accept a request body.

Response

Example Get host memory information: JSON response

{
"timestamp": 1354038868450,
"info": {
"actual_free": 3117314048,
"actual_used": 1451307008,
"free": 2726739968,
"ram": 4360,
"swap_free": 926932992
"swap_page_in": 926932992,
"swap_page_out": 926932992,
"swap_total": 926932992,
"swap_used": 926932992,
"total": 4568621056,
"used": 1841881088
}
}

Get host network interface information

GET /agents/{agentId}/host_info/network_interaces

Get information about the host network interfaces.

The following table shows the possible response codes for this operation:

Response Code	Name	Description
200	OK	The request completed.
400	Bad request	The system received an invalid value in a request.
401	Unauthorized	The system received a request from a user that is not authenticated.
403	Forbidden	The system received a request that the user is not authorized to make.
500	Internal Server Error	An unexpected condition was encountered.
503	Service Unavailable	The system is experiencing heavy load or another system failure.

Request

The following table shows the header parameters for the request:

Name	Type	Description
X-Auth-Token	String (Required)	A valid authentication token with administrative access. For details, see Get your credentials

Note

This operation does not accept a request body.

Response

Example Get host network interface information: JSON response

{
"timestamp": 1354038900510,
"info": [
{
"name": "lo",
"type": "Local Loopback",
"address": "127.0.0.1",
"netmask": "255.0.0.0",
"address6": "::1",
"broadcast": "0.0.0.0",
"hwaddr": "00:00:00:00:00:00",
"mtu": 16436,
"rx_packets": 361762,
"rx_bytes": 92488304,
"tx_packets": 361762,
"tx_bytes": 92488304,
"flags": 73
},
{
"name": "eth0",
"type": "Ethernet",
"address": "192.168.95.128",
"netmask": "255.255.255.0",
"address6": "fe80::250:56ff:fe24:bbbb",
"broadcast": "192.168.95.255",
"hwaddr": "00:00:00:00:00:00",
"mtu": 1500,
"rx_packets": 13142,
"rx_bytes": 1838773,
"tx_packets": 12087,
"tx_bytes": 6282141,
"flags": 2115
}
]
}

Get host process information

GET /agents/{agentId}/host_info/processes

Get information about the host processes.

The following table shows the possible response codes for this operation:

Response Code	Name	Description
200	OK	The request completed.
400	Bad request	The system received an invalid value in a request.
401	Unauthorized	The system received a request from a user that is not authenticated.
403	Forbidden	The system received a request that the user is not authorized to make.
500	Internal Server Error	An unexpected condition was encountered.
503	Service Unavailable	The system is experiencing heavy load or another system failure.

Request

The following table shows the header parameters for the request:

Name	Type	Description
X-Auth-Token	String (Required)	A valid authentication token with administrative access. For details, see Get your credentials

Note

This operation does not accept a request body.

Response

Example Get host process information: JSON response

{
"timestamp": 1354040508264,
"info": [
{
"pid": 1,
"exe_name": "/sbin/init",
"exe_cwd": "/",
"exe_root": "/",
"time_total": 2080,
"time_sys": 2010,
"time_user": 70,
"time_start_time": 1354005304000,
"state_name": "init",
"state_priority": 20,
"state_threads": 1,
"memory_size": 24387584,
"memory_resident": 2088960,
"memory_share": 1335296,
"memory_major_faults": 24,
"memory_minor_faults": 7810,
"memory_page_faults": 7834
}
]
}

Get host system information

GET /agents/{agentId}/host_info/system

Get system information for the host.

The following table shows the possible response codes for this operation:

Response Code	Name	Description
200	OK	The request completed.
400	Bad request	The system received an invalid value in a request.
401	Unauthorized	The system received a request from a user that is not authenticated.
403	Forbidden	The system received a request that the user is not authorized to make.
500	Internal Server Error	An unexpected condition was encountered.
503	Service Unavailable	The system is experiencing heavy load or another system failure.

Request

This table shows the header parameters for the request:

Name	Type	Description
X-Auth-Token	String (Required)	A valid authentication token with administrative access. For details, see Get your credentials

Note

This operation does not accept a request body.

Response

Example Get host system information: JSON response

{
"timestamp": 1354039150948,
"info": {
"name": "Linux",
"arch": "x86_64",
"version": "2.6.32-44-server",
"vendor": "Ubuntu",
"vendor_version": "10.04"
}
}

Get information about host users

GET /agents/{agentId}/host_info/who

Get information about users who are logged into the host.

The following table shows the possible response codes for this operation:

Response Code	Name	Description
200	OK	The request completed.
400	Bad request	The system received an invalid value in a request.
401	Unauthorized	The system received a request from a user that is not authenticated.
403	Forbidden	The system received a request that the user is not authorized to make.
500	Internal Server Error	An unexpected condition was encountered.
503	Service Unavailable	The system is experiencing heavy load or another system failure.

Request

The following table shows the header parameters for the request:

Name	Type	Description
X-Auth-Token	String (Required)	A valid authentication token with administrative access. For details, see Get your credentials

Note

This operation does not accept a request body.

Response

Example Get information about host users: JSON response

{
"timestamp": 1354124700975,
"info": [
{
"user": "testuser",
"device": "tty1",
"time": 1353953846
},
{
"user": "testuser",
"device": "pts/2",
"time": 1354117532,
"host": "192.168.95.1"
},
{
"user": "testuser",
"device": "pts/3",
"time": 1354124463,
"host": "comp8dv7m.local"
},
{
"user": "testuser",
"device": "pts/4",
"time": 1354124661,
"host": "comp8dv7m.local"
}
]
}