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Querying Number of Resource Instances by Resource Type and Tag

Function

This API is used to query the number of resource instances by resource type and tag.

Debugging

You can debug this API through automatic authentication in API Explorer or use the SDK sample code generated by API Explorer.

Authorization Information

Each account has all the permissions required to call all APIs, but IAM users must be assigned the required permissions.

If you are using role/policy-based authorization, see Permissions Policies and Supported Actions for details on the required permissions.

If you are using identity policy-based authorization, the following identity policy-based permissions are required.

Action	Access Level	Resource Type (*: required)	Condition Key	Alias	Dependencies
organizations:resources:countByTag	List	-	-	-	-

URI

POST /v1/organizations/{resource_type}/resource-instances/count

**Table 1** Path Parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
resource_type	Yes	String	Resource type. It can be organizations:policies, organizations:ous, organizations:accounts, or organizations:roots.

Request Parameters

**Table 2** Request header parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
X-Security-Token	No	String	Security token (session token) of your temporary security credentials. If a temporary security credential is used, this header is required.

**Table 3** Request body parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
without_any_tag	No	Boolean	If this parameter is set to true, all resources without tags are queried.
tags	No	Array of TagsDTO objects	A maximum of 10 keys can be queried at a time, and each key can contain a maximum of 10 values. The structure body must be included. The tag key cannot be left blank or be an empty string. Each key must be unique, and each value for a key must be unique. Resources that contain all keys and one or multiple values listed in tags will be found and returned. If no tag filtering criteria is specified, all data is returned.
matches	No	Array of Match objects	Search field. key indicates the field to be matched, for example, organizational-unit. The tag value indicates the value to be matched. The key is a fixed dictionary value and cannot contain duplicate keys or unsupported keys.

**Table 4** TagsDTO
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
key	Yes	String	Key. Each tag key can contain a maximum of 127 Unicode characters and cannot be left blank.
values	Yes	Array of strings	List of values. Each value can contain a maximum of 255 Unicode characters.

**Table 5** Match
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
key	Yes	String	Key. The value can be policy, organizational-unit, or account.
value	Yes	String	Value. Each value can contain a maximum of 255 Unicode characters.

Response Parameters

Status code: 200

**Table 6** Response body parameters
Parameter	Type	Description
total_count	Integer	Total number of records.

Example Requests

Querying the number of resource instances by resource type and tag

POST /v1/organizations/{resource_type}/resource-instances/count

{
  "without_any_tag" : true,
  "tags" : [ {
    "key" : "string",
    "values" : [ "string" ]
  } ],
  "matches" : [ {
    "key" : "string",
    "value" : "string"
  } ]
}