Updated on 2025-08-29 GMT+08:00

Viewing the Details of a Flavor

Function

This API is used to view the details of a flavor.

Calling Method

For details, see Calling APIs.

URI

GET /v3/{project_id}/elb/flavors/{flavor_id}

Table 1 Path Parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

project_id

Yes

String

Definition: Specifies the project ID. For details about how to obtain a project ID, see Obtaining a Project ID.

Constraints: N/A

Range: The value can contain a maximum of 32 characters, including digits and lowercase letters.

Default value: N/A

flavor_id

Yes

String

Definition: Specifies the flavor ID.

Constraints: N/A

Range: N/A

Default value: N/A

Request Parameters

Table 2 Request header parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

X-Auth-Token

Yes

String

Definition: Specifies the token used for IAM authentication.

Constraints: N/A

Range: N/A

Default value: N/A

Response Parameters

Status code: 200

Table 3 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

request_id

String

Definition: Specifies the request ID.

Range: The value is automatically generated, and can contain characters including digits, lowercase letters, and hyphens (-).

flavor

Flavor object

Definition: Specifies the flavor.

Range: N/A

Table 4 Flavor

Parameter

Type

Description

id

String

Definition: Specifies the flavor ID.

Range: N/A

info

FlavorInfo object

Definition: Specifies the flavor metrics.

Range: N/A

name

String

Definition: Specifies the flavor name.

Range:

Network load balancers have the following flavors:

  • L4_flavor.elb.s1.small: small I

  • L4_flavor.elb.s2.small: small II

  • L4_flavor.elb.s1.medium: medium I

  • L4_flavor.elb.s2.medium: medium II

  • L4_flavor.elb.s1.large: large I

  • L4_flavor.elb.s2.large: Large II

  • L4_flavor.elb.pro.max: elastic flavor at Layer 4

Application load balancers have the following flavors:

  • L7_flavor.elb.s1.small: small I

  • L7_flavor.elb.s2.small: small II

  • L7_flavor.elb.s1.medium: medium I

  • L7_flavor.elb.s2.medium: medium II

  • L7_flavor.elb.s1.large: large I

  • L7_flavor.elb.s2.large: Large II

  • L7_flavor.elb.s1.extra-large: extra-large I

  • L7_flavor.elb.s2.extra-large: extra-large II

  • L7_flavor.elb.pro.max: elastic flavor at Layer

shared

Boolean

Definition: Specifies whether the flavor is available to all users.

Range:

  • true indicates that the flavor is available to all users.

  • false indicates that the flavor is available only to the current user.

project_id

String

Definition: Specifies the project ID. For details about how to obtain a project ID, see Obtaining a Project ID.

Range: The value can contain a maximum of 32 characters, including digits and lowercase letters.

type

String

Definition: Specifies the flavor type.

Range:

  • L4 indicates a Layer 4 flavor and L7 indicates a Layer 7 flavor.

  • gateway indicates the flavor of a gateway load balancer using elastic billing.

  • L4_elastic indicates the minimum elastic flavor at Layer 4 and L7_elastic indicates the minimum elastic flavor at Layer 7. This parameter has been discarded. Please do not use it.

  • L4_elastic_max indicates the maximum elastic flavor at Layer 4, gateway_elastic_max indicates the maximum gateway elastic flavor, and L7_elastic_max indicates the maximum elastic flavor at Layer 7.

flavor_sold_out

Boolean

Definition: Specifies whether load balancers of this flavor cannot be purchased.

Range:

  • true:

  • false:

public_border_group

String

Definition: Specifies the public border group.

Range:

  • center: public border group of the central site

  • Edge site name: public border group of an edge site

category

Integer

Definition: Specifies the AZ category code. This parameter is used to identify the type of an edge AZ.

Range: 0 (central AZs), 21 (HomeZones AZs), and 41 (edge AZs)

Table 5 FlavorInfo

Parameter

Type

Description

connection

Integer

Definition: Specifies the maximum number of concurrent connections per second. Unit: count

Range: N/A

cps

Integer

Definition: Specifies the number of new connections per second. Unit: count

Range: N/A

qps

Integer

Definition: Specifies the number of queries per second (QPS). Unit: count

This parameter is available only for load balancers at Layer 7.

Range: N/A

bandwidth

Integer

Definition: Specifies the bandwidth, in kbit/s.

Range: N/A

lcu

Integer

Definition: Specifies the number of LCUs supported by the flavor. Unit: count

Range: N/A

NOTE:
An LCU measures the dimensions on which a dedicated load balancer routes the traffic. A higher value indicates better performance.

https_cps

Integer

Definition: Specifies the number of new HTTPS connections. This parameter is available only for load balancers at Layer 7. Unit: count

Range: N/A

Example Requests

Querying the details of a flavor

GET https://{ELB_Endpoint}/v3/{project_id}/elb/flavors/{flavor_id}

Example Responses

Status code: 200

Successful request.

{
  "flavor" : {
    "shared" : true,
    "project_id" : "8d53f081ea24444aa95e2bfa942ef6ee",
    "info" : {
      "bandwidth" : 10000000,
      "connection" : 8000000,
      "cps" : 80000,
      "qps" : 160000,
      "lcu" : 100
    },
    "id" : "3588b525-63ed-4b8f-8a03-6aaa9ad1c36a",
    "name" : "L7_flavor.slb.s2.large",
    "type" : "L7",
    "flavor_sold_out" : false,
    "public_border_group" : "center",
    "category" : 0
  },
  "request_id" : "3b9fb516-b7bb-4760-9128-4a23dd36ae10"
}

Status Codes

Status Code

Description

200

Successful request.

Error Codes

See Error Codes.