Services

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SoftLayer_Metric_Tracking_Object::getSummary

Retrieve metric summary.

Description

Retrieve a metric summary. Ideal if you want to employ your own graphing systems. Note not all metric types contain a summary. These return null.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
graphType	string	The type of metric to gather data for (InstanceCount, HostMemoryUsage, HostReservedMemoryUsage).

Required Headers

Authenticate
SoftLayer_Metric_Tracking_ObjectInitParameters

Optional Headers

None

Return Values

SoftLayer_Container_Metric_Tracking_Object_Summary

Associated Methods

SoftLayer_Metric_Tracking_Object::getDetailsForDateRange

REST Example

curl -g -u $SL_USER:$SL_APIKEY -X POST -d '{"parameters": [string]}' \
'https://api.softlayer.com/rest/v3.1/SoftLayer_Metric_Tracking_Object/{SoftLayer_Metric_Tracking_ObjectID}/getSummary'