SoftLayer_Metric_Tracking_Object

Classes SoftLayer_Metric_Tracking_Object
Tags service sldn metric

SoftLayer_Metric_Tracking_Object

Description

Metric tracking objects provides a common interface to all metrics provided by SoftLayer. These metrics range from network component traffic for a server to aggregated Bandwidth Pooling traffic and more. Every object within SoftLayer’s range of objects that has data that can be tracked over time has an associated tracking object.

The SoftLayer_Metric_Tracking_Object service contains methods that allow users to retrieve data from these tracking objects in raw and graph form.

Methods

getBandwidthData

Retrieve raw bandwidth data from a tracking object.

getBandwidthGraph

[DEPRECATED] Retrieve a bandwidth graph.

getBandwidthTotal

Retrieve the total bandwidth used within a given time frame.

getDetailsForDateRange

Retrieve metric detail data over a date range.

getGraph

[DEPRECATED] Retrieve a graph of a virtual hosting platform’s per instance use.

getMetricDataTypes

Returns valid metric data types for a tracking object

getObject

Retrieve a SoftLayer_Metric_Tracking_Object record.

getSummary

Retrieve metric summary.

getSummaryData

Returns the metric data for the date range provided

getType

The type of data that a tracking object polls.