OpenTSDB API Introduction

OpenTSDB provides HTTP-based or HTTPS-based APIs. A request method is to send a standard HTTP request containing the GET and POST methods to a path of a resource. The API is the same as that of the open source OpenTSDB. For details, visit https://opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/api_http/index.html.

The request and response entity type is application/JSON.

The code of the request and response entity is ISO-8859-1.

HTTP has security risks and HTTPS is a secure protocol. You are advised to use HTTPS for connection.

Common OpenTSDB APIs are as follows:

Obtaining an OpenTSDB Link

Before calling an OpenTSDB API, perform the following operations to obtain the OpenTSDB link:

To obtain the OpenTSDB link, log in to the CloudTable management console and choose Cluster Mode in the left navigation pane. Click the cluster name to access the basic cluster information page. Locate OpenTSDB Link in the Cluster Information area, as shown in the following figure.

Figure 1 OpenTSDB link