Updated on 2025-07-29 GMT+08:00

Configuring Monitoring by Seconds

Function

This API is used to configure Monitoring by Seconds for instances. You can set the monitoring interval to 1 second or 5 seconds to view the metric values. Before calling this API:

URI

PUT /v3/{project_id}/instances/{instance_id}/monitor-policy

Table 1 URI parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

project_id

Yes

String

Definition

Project ID of a tenant in a region.

To obtain this value, see Obtaining a Project ID.

Constraints

N/A

Range

The value contains 32 characters. Only letters and digits are allowed.

Default Value

N/A

instance_id

Yes

String

Definition

Instance ID, which uniquely identifies an instance.

Constraints

N/A

Range

The value contains 36 characters with a suffix of in07. Only letters and digits are allowed.

Default Value

N/A

Request Parameters

Table 2 Request header parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

X-Auth-Token

Yes

String

Definition

User token. To obtain this value, call the IAM API for obtaining a user token.

The value of X-Subject-Token in the response header is the token value.

Constraints

N/A

Range

N/A

Default Value

N/A

X-Language

No

String

Definition

Request language type.

Constraints

N/A

Range

  • en-us

  • zh-cn

Default Value

en-us

Table 3 Request body parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

monitor_switch

Yes

Boolean

Definition

Whether to enable Monitoring by Seconds.

Constraints

N/A

Range

  • true: enabled

  • false: disabled

Default Value

N/A

period

No

Integer

Definition

Collection period.

Constraints

This parameter is only available when monitor_switch is set to true. This parameter is not displayed when monitor_switch is set to false.

Range

  • 1: The collection period is 1s.

  • 5: The collection period is 5s.

Default Value

5

Response Parameters

Status code: 200

Table 4 Response body parameter

Parameter

Type

Description

job_id

String

Definition

ID of the task for modifying Monitoring by Seconds.

Range

N/A

Status code: 400

Table 5 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

error_code

String

Error code.

error_msg

String

Error message.

Status code: 500

Table 6 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

error_code

String

Error code.

error_msg

String

Error message.

Example Request

Enabling Monitoring by Seconds and changing its collection period to 1s

PUT https://{endpoint}/v3/054e292c9880d4992f02c0196d3ea468/instances/61a4ea66210545909d74a05c27a7179ein07/monitor-policy
{
  "monitor_switch" : true,
  "period" : 1
}

Example Response

Status code: 200

Success.

{
  "job_id" : "6b7dd5d4-4590-4f14-b164-a8737ce071d5"
}

Status Code

For details, see Status Codes.

Error Code

For details, see Error Codes.