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Querying the Autoscaling Policy of Storage Space

Function

This API is used to query the autoscaling policy of storage space.

Constraints

This API supports the following instance:

  • GeminiDB Cassandra

Authorization Information

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

  • If you are using role/policy-based authorization, see the required permissions in Permissions and Supported Actions.
  • 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

    gaussdbfornosql:instance:getAutoExtendVolumePolicy

    Read

    instance *

    • g:ResourceTag/<tag-key>
    • g:EnterpriseProjectId

    nosql:instance:list

    -

URI

GET /v3/{project_id}/instances/{instance_id}/disk-auto-expansion

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. To obtain the value, call the Querying Instances and Details API. If no instance is available, call the Creating an Instance API to create one.

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

User token

You can obtain the token by calling the IAM API by following Obtaining a User Token Through Password Authentication.

Constraints

N/A

Range

N/A

Default Value

N/A

Response Parameters

Status code: 200

Table 3 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

policy

Table 4 object

Definition

Autoscaling policy for storage space.

No information is returned if the autoscaling policy is disabled.

Table 4 AutoEnlargePolicy

Parameter

Type

Description

threshold

Integer

Definition

Threshold for triggering autoscaling, in percentage.

Range

  • The value of a GeminiDB Cassandra instance can be 80, 85, or 90.
  • The value of a GeminiDB Redis instance can be 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, or 90.

step

Integer

Definition

Scale-up step size (%)

The storage is automatically scaled up by a percentage you specify. The calculated value will be rounded up to a multiple of 10. At least 100 GB is added each time by default.

NOTE:

If there is insufficient balance in your account, storage space may fail to be scaled up for yearly/monthly instances.

Range

N/A

size

Integer

Definition

Storage limit in GB that autoscaling can increase storage space to.

Range

N/A

Example Requests

URI example
GET https://{Endpoint}/v3/619d3e78f61b4be68bc5aa0b59edcf7b/instances/93e4b3eda14349b1b870f72829bc3b9bin06/disk-auto-expansion

Example Responses

Status code: 200

Success

{ 
  "policy" : { 
    "threshold" : 90, 
    "step" : 10, 
    "size" : 600 
  } 
}

Status Codes

For details, see Status Codes.

Error Codes

For details, see Error Codes.