Axibase Time Series Database

Overview

The Meta API allows you to query and update metadata associated with metrics, entities, and entity groups in the database.

Request Methods

The API uses GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE methods to read and write data.

Request Headers

When submitting payload with POST, PUT, and PATCH methods in JSON format, add the header Content-Type: application/json.

For correct Unicode handling, specify the charset Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8.

URI Encoding

Requested parameter values and parameterized path segments such as /api/v1/metrics/{metric} must be URL encoded to translate special characters such as : / ? # [ ] @ into a percent format that can be transmitted safely as part of the request URI.

Input Encoded Value URI
jvm/memory(max) jvm%2Fmemory%28max%29 /api/v1/metrics/jvm%2Fmemory%28max%29
name LIKE 'cpu*' name%20LIKE%20%27cpu*%27 /api/v1/metrics?expression=name%20LIKE%20%27cpu*%27

Failure to encode URI components results in HTTP 4xx and 5xx errors.

Status Code: 500
{"error":"...HttpRequestMethodNotSupportedException: Request method 'GET' not supported"}

HTTP Status Codes

  • 200 OK or 204 No Content status code if the request is successful.
  • 401 Unauthorized status code on unknown resource.
  • 403 Forbidden status code on access denied error.
  • 4xx status code on other client errors.
  • 5xx status code on server error.

Errors

Processing errors are returned in JSON format:

{"error":"Empty first row"}

Authentication

  • User authentication is required.
  • All requests must be authenticated using BASIC AUTHENTICATION.
  • The authentication method is HTTP BASIC.
  • The client can enable session cookies to execute multiple requests without re-sending BASIC authentication header.

Authorization

Cross-domain Requests

Cross-domain requests are allowed.

Compression

  • Clients can send compressed data by adding the HTTP header Content-Encoding: gzip to the request.

Troubleshooting

  • Review error logs on the Settings > Diagnostics > Server Logs page in case the payload is rejected.
  • To eliminate authentication issues, submit the request using the built-in API client on the Data > API Client page.
  • To validate JSON received from a client, launch the netcat utility in server mode, reconfigure the client to send data to netcat port, and dump the incoming data to file:
nc -lk -p 20088 > json-in.log &

curl http://localhost:20088/api/v1/metrics/cpu-used-total \
  -v -u {username}:{password} \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -X PATCH \
  -d '{ "label": "CPU Busy Average" }'

cat json-in.log

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