Use the Rackspace Monitoring feed operations to get information about usage fields for the Rackspace Cloud Monitoring service.
Get feed for Monitoring events
GET /monitoring/events/{tid}
This operation obtains the most recent events for this product's feed.
Request
The following table shows the header parameters for the request:
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| ACCEPT | Acceptheadertype (Required) | Specifies the type of Accept header to be used in the request. |
The following table shows the URI parameters for the request:
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| {tid} | String | Specifies the tenant Id. |
The following table shows the query parameters for the request:
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| marker | Anyuri (Optional) | Specifies the entry from which the feed is read. If no value is specified, forward is used by default. |
| limit | Int (Optional) | Specifies the number of entries to return. By default the limit is set to 25. The minimum limit is 1 and the maximum limit is 1,000. |
| direction | String (Optional) | Valid values for this parameter are either backward or forward. |
This operation does not accept a request body.
Response
The following table shows the possible response codes for this
operation.
| Response Code | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 200 | OK | The request succeeded. |
| 400 | Bad Request | The request is missing one or more elements, or the values of some elements are invalid. |
| 401 | Unauthorized | Authentication failed, or the user does not have permissions for a requested operation. |
| 404 | Not Found | The requested resource was not found. |
| 429 | Rate Limited | Too many requests. Wait and retry. |
| 500 | Internal Server Error | The server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from fulfilling the request. |
| 503 | Service Unavailable | Service is not available. Try again later. |
Get Monitoring event by ID
GET /monitoring/events/{tid}/entries/{id}
This http request fetches one particular event whose ID is listed in the
URI.
Request
The following table shows the URI parameters for the request:
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| {tid} | String | Specifies the tenant Id. |
| {id} | Anyuri | <urn:uuid:676f3860-447c-> 40a3-8f61-9791819cc82f |
This operation does not accept a request body.
Message samples
The following examples show the XML and JSON messages for each event
message type.
Usage fields event message, v1
Specifies the usage fields that are specific to MaaS, version 1
The following table describes attributes for the event message.
| Attribute Name | Description | Type | Optionality |
|---|---|---|---|
monitoringZones | Speciifes the number of monitoring zones. | int | Required |
checkType | Specifies the type of check that is being performed. | string | Optional |
XML Sample
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<atom:entry xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns="http://docs.rackspace.com/core/event" xmlns:maas="http://docs.rackspace.com/usage/maas">
<atom:id> urn:uuid:b2869958-a020-11e1-b15c-a38f4c3d83a9 </atom:id>
<atom:category term="tid:7777"/>
<atom:category term="rgn:GLOBAL"/>
<atom:category term="dc:GLOBAL"/>
<atom:category term="rid:chAAAA"/>
<atom:category term="cloudmonitoring.maas.check.usage"/>
<atom:category term="type:cloudmonitoring.maas.check.usage"/>
<atom:title type="text"> MaaSEvent </atom:title>
<atom:content type="application/xml">
<event dataCenter="GLOBAL" endTime="2012-04-30T03:27:36Z" environment="PROD" id="b2869958-a020-11e1-b15c-a38f4c3d83a9" region="GLOBAL" resourceId="chAAAA" startTime="2012-04-30T03:27:35Z" tenantId="7777" type="USAGE" version="1">
<maas:product checkType="remote.http" monitoringZones="3" resourceType="CHECK" serviceCode="CloudMonitoring" version="1"/>
</event>
</atom:content>
<atom:link href="https://ord.feeds.api.rackspacecloud.com/monitoring/events/entries/urn:uuid:b2869958-a020-11e1-b15c-a38f4c3d83a9" rel="self"/>
<atom:updated> 2013-02-28T14:21:45.604Z </atom:updated>
<atom:published> 2013-02-28T14:21:45.604Z </atom:published>
</atom:entry>
JSON Sample
{
"entry": {
"@type": "http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2005\/Atom",
"category": [
{
"term": "tid:7777"
},
{
"term": "rgn:GLOBAL"
},
{
"term": "dc:GLOBAL"
},
{
"term": "rid:chAAAA"
},
{
"term": "cloudmonitoring.maas.check.usage"
},
{
"term": "type:cloudmonitoring.maas.check.usage"
}
],
"content": {
"event": {
"@type": "http:\/\/docs.rackspace.com\/core\/event",
"dataCenter": "GLOBAL",
"endTime": "2012-04-30T03:27:36Z",
"environment": "PROD",
"id": "b2869958-a020-11e1-b15c-a38f4c3d83a9",
"product": {
"@type": "http:\/\/docs.rackspace.com\/usage\/maas",
"checkType": "remote.http",
"monitoringZones": 3,
"resourceType": "CHECK",
"serviceCode": "CloudMonitoring",
"version": "1"
},
"region": "GLOBAL",
"resourceId": "chAAAA",
"startTime": "2012-04-30T03:27:35Z",
"tenantId": "7777",
"type": "USAGE",
"version": "1"
}
},
"id": "urn:uuid:b2869958-a020-11e1-b15c-a38f4c3d83a9",
"link": [
{
"href": "https:\/\/ord.feeds.api.rackspacecloud.com\/monitoring\/events\/entries\/urn:uuid:b2869958-a020-11e1-b15c-a38f4c3d83a9",
"rel": "self"
}
],
"published": "2013-02-28T14:21:45.604Z",
"title": {
"@text": "MaaSEvent",
"type": "text"
},
"updated": "2013-02-28T14:21:45.604Z"
}
}
Usage fields event message, v2
Specifies the MaaS-specific usage fields, version 2.
The following table describes attributes for the event message.
| Attribute Name | Description | Type | Optionality |
|---|---|---|---|
monitoringZones | Specifies the number of monitoring zones. | int | Required |
checkType | Specifies the type of check that is being performed. | string | Optional |
product | Specifies the product that the check is intended to be used for. Allowed Values: CLOUD_DATABASE, CLOUD_SERVER | Name | Required |
productInstanceId | Specifies the instanceId of the product that the check is intended to be used for. | UUID | Required |
XML Sample
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<atom:entry xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns="http://docs.rackspace.com/core/event" xmlns:maas="http://docs.rackspace.com/usage/maas">
<atom:id> urn:uuid:a2869958-a020-11e1-b15c-a38f4c3d83a9 </atom:id>
<atom:category term="tid:7777"/>
<atom:category term="rgn:GLOBAL"/>
<atom:category term="dc:GLOBAL"/>
<atom:category term="rid:chAAAA"/>
<atom:category term="cloudmonitoring.maas.check.usage"/>
<atom:category term="type:cloudmonitoring.maas.check.usage"/>
<atom:title type="text"> MaaSEvent </atom:title>
<atom:content type="application/xml">
<event dataCenter="GLOBAL" endTime="2012-04-30T03:27:36Z" environment="PROD" id="a2869958-a020-11e1-b15c-a38f4c3d83a9" region="GLOBAL" resourceId="chAAAA" startTime="2012-04-30T03:27:35Z" tenantId="7777" type="USAGE" version="1">
<maas:product checkType="remote.http" monitoringZones="3" product="CLOUD_DATABASE" productInstanceId="4a2b42f4-6c63-11e1-815b-7fcbcf67f549" resourceType="CHECK" serviceCode="CloudMonitoring" version="2"/>
</event>
</atom:content>
<atom:link href="https://ord.feeds.api.rackspacecloud.com/monitoring/events/entries/urn:uuid:a2869958-a020-11e1-b15c-a38f4c3d83a9" rel="self"/>
<atom:updated> 2014-03-03T16:59:13.958Z </atom:updated>
<atom:published> 2014-03-03T16:59:13.958Z </atom:published>
</atom:entry>
JSON Sample
{
"entry": {
"@type": "http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2005\/Atom",
"category": [
{
"term": "tid:7777"
},
{
"term": "rgn:GLOBAL"
},
{
"term": "dc:GLOBAL"
},
{
"term": "rid:chAAAA"
},
{
"term": "cloudmonitoring.maas.check.usage"
},
{
"term": "type:cloudmonitoring.maas.check.usage"
}
],
"content": {
"event": {
"@type": "http:\/\/docs.rackspace.com\/core\/event",
"dataCenter": "GLOBAL",
"endTime": "2012-04-30T03:27:36Z",
"environment": "PROD",
"id": "a2869958-a020-11e1-b15c-a38f4c3d83a9",
"product": {
"@type": "http:\/\/docs.rackspace.com\/usage\/maas",
"checkType": "remote.http",
"monitoringZones": 3,
"product": "CLOUD_DATABASE",
"productInstanceId": "4a2b42f4-6c63-11e1-815b-7fcbcf67f549",
"resourceType": "CHECK",
"serviceCode": "CloudMonitoring",
"version": "2"
},
"region": "GLOBAL",
"resourceId": "chAAAA",
"startTime": "2012-04-30T03:27:35Z",
"tenantId": "7777",
"type": "USAGE",
"version": "1"
}
},
"id": "urn:uuid:a2869958-a020-11e1-b15c-a38f4c3d83a9",
"link": [
{
"href": "https:\/\/ord.feeds.api.rackspacecloud.com\/monitoring\/events\/entries\/urn:uuid:a2869958-a020-11e1-b15c-a38f4c3d83a9",
"rel": "self"
}
],
"published": "2014-03-03T16:59:13.958Z",
"title": {
"@text": "MaaSEvent",
"type": "text"
},
"updated": "2014-03-03T16:59:13.958Z"
}
}
Response
The following table shows the possible response codes for this
operation.
| Response Code | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 200 | OK | The request completed successfully |
| 400 | Bad Request | The request is missing one or more elements, or the values of some elements are invalid. |
| 401 | Unauthorized | Authentication failed, or the user does not have permissions for a requested operation. |
| 429 | Rate Limited | Too many requests. Wait and retry. |
| 500 | Internal Server Error | The server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from fulfilling the request. |
| 503 | Service Unavailable | Service is not available. Try again later. |