Using data API

qedroger — Fri, 20 May 2022 18:13:56 GMT

I discovered the API explorer part of our vCenter and I have had some success pulling information about VM’s. What I’m really interested in is the Metrics and Data Points API’s. I haven’t had much luck with getting useful information out of them. Under the Metrics portion I can pull the list of the available metrics but when I use the data part to actually get the data I get empty returns. This is the result for not specifying any metrics on the data API. It’s just empty.

curl -X GET 'https://{myvcenter}/api/stats/data/dp?metric=cpu.capacity.usage' -H 'vmware-api-session-id: {mysessionid}'

This is the entirety of the response. What am I doing wrong? {myvcenter} and {mysessionid} are just place holders for the real information. I

VstatsDataDataPointsResult

{

"data_points": [ ]
[

]

}

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Using data API