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Glances HTTP API is based on **RESTFul/JSON**. Glances HTTP API is based on **RESTFul/JSON**.
The detailed Glances Restfull/API documentation is available in the code: The detailed Glances Restfull/API documentation is available in the code.
Click here to consult the last version ==> https://github.com/nicolargo/glances/blob/fieldsdescription/docs/api.rst * Glances version 4: https://github.com/nicolargo/glances/blob/develop/docs/api.rst
*Note: Change api/3 by api/2 if you use Glances 2.x.* * Glances version 3: https://github.com/nicolargo/glances/blob/support/glancesv3/docs/api.rst
***
# Serveur side
$ glances -w
Glances Web server is running on 0.0.0.0:61208
# Client side
The RESTful API is located at:
`http://{glances server IP@}:61208/api/3`
Memory stats request example with Curl:
$ curl http://localhost:61208/api/3/mem
{"available": 3627708416, "used": 4244357120, "cached": 2746822656, "percent": 53.9, "free": 3627708416, "inactive": 2100039680, "active": 4159094784, "shared": 384692224, "total": 7872065536, "buffers": 395943936}
Or with Httpie:
```
$ http http://localhost:61208/api/3/mem
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Origin, Accept, Content-Type, X-Requested-With, X-CSRF-Token
Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, POST, PUT, OPTIONS
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Type: application/json
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 16:06:10 GMT
Server: WSGIServer/0.1 Python/2.7.12
{
"active": 4165025792,
"available": 3621687296,
"buffers": 395997184,
"cached": 2747146240,
"free": 3621687296,
"inactive": 2100359168,
"percent": 54.0,
"shared": 385015808,
"total": 7872065536,
"used": 4250378240
}
```
From Glances version 3 and higher, support of Gzip encoding is provided (active by default with Httpie). For Curl, add the followings tags:
$ curl -H "Accept-encoding: gzip" --compressed -v http://localhost:61208/api/2/mem
< Content-Encoding: gzip
***
### GET _**/api/3/pluginslist**_
Return the plugins available on the Glances server.
Request parameters:
* None
Request response:
* 200 - application/json: list
* 404 - Returned if the property does not exist
Example: _/api/3/pluginslist_
```
["load", "core", "uptime", "fs", "memswap", "monitor", "percpu", "mem", "sensors", "system", "alert", "psutilversion", "processlist", "diskio", "hddtemp", "processcount", "batpercent", "now", "cpu", "network", "help"]
```
***
### GET _**/api/3/:plugin**_
Return the stats for the specific ``plugin``
Request parameters:
* plugin: plugin name
Request response:
* 200 - application/json: dictionnary
* 404 - Returned if the property does not exist
Example: _/api/3/mem_
```
{"available": 5071183872, "used": 3255848960, "cached": 1827352576, "percent": 39.1, "free": 5071183872, "inactive": 1388982272, "active": 3679604736, "total": 8327032832, "buffers": 477982720}
```
***
### GET _**/api/3/:plugin/:item**_
Return the ``item`` stat for the specific ``plugin``
Request parameters:
* plugin: plugin name
* item: item to retrieve
Request response:
* 200 - application/json: dictionnary
* 404 - Returned if the property does not exist
Example: _/api/3/mem/used_
Return the memory used (RAM)
```
{"used": 3255848960}
```
Example: _/api/3/processlist/pid_
Return processes' pid list
```
{"pid": [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 90, 92, 93, 113, 114, 165, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 191, 192, 370, 376, 429, 430, 454, 468, 522, 562, 770, 773]}
```
Example: _/api/3/network/interface_name_
Return network interfaces name list
```
{"interface_name": ["lo", "docker0", "eth0"]}
```
***
### GET _**/api/3/:plugin/:item/:value**_
Return the ``item``==``value`` stat for the specific ``plugin``
Request parameters:
* plugin: plugin name
* item: item to retrieve
* value: filter on item value
Request response:
* 200 - application/json: dictionnary
* 404 - Returned if the property does not exist
Example: _/api/3/processlist/pid/770_
Return process stats for pid 770
```
{"770": [{"username": "messagebus", "status": "S", "cpu_times": [0.17, 0.04], "name": "dbus-daemon", "memory_percent": 0.031136757261677143, "cpu_percent": 0.0, "pid": 770, "ppid": 768, "io_counters": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0], "cmdline": "dbus-daemon --system --fork", "memory_info": [2592768, 41635840], "time_since_update": 59.427401065826416, "nice": 0}]}
```
Example: _/api/3/network/interface_name/eth0_
Return eth0 network interface stats
```
{"eth0": [{"tx": 233589, "cumulative_rx": 225276411, "rx": 510828, "cumulative_cx": 251558670, "time_since_update": 287.83594512939453, "cx": 744417, "cumulative_tx": 26282259, "interface_name": "eth0"}]}
```
***
### GET _**/api/3/all**_
Return all availables stats
Request parameters:
* None
Request response:
* 200 - application/json: dictionnary
* 404 - Returned if the property does not exist
Example: _/api/3/all_
```
{"load": {"cpucore": 4, "min1": 0.18, "min5": 0.29, "min15": 0.36}, "core": {"phys": 1, "log": 4}, "uptime": "7:10:12", "fs": [{"mnt_point": "/", "used": 164121161728, "percent": 76.3, "device_name": "/dev/sda5", "fs_type": "ext4", "size": 215225925632}],...}
```
***
### GET _**/api/3/:plugin/history**_
Return the history stats for the specific ``plugin``
**Only available in Glances 2.7 or higher**
Request parameters:
* plugin: plugin name
Request response:
* 200 - application/json: dict of list of tuple (timestamp, value)
* 404 - Returned if the property does not exist
Example: _/api/3/cpu/history_
```
{"user": [["2016-06-02T17:44:48.754493", 23.3], ["2016-06-02T17:45:03.046595", 2.2], ["2016-06-02T17:45:05.582539", 5.0], ["2016-06-02T17:45:23.093514", 3.2]], "system": [["2016-06-02T17:44:48.754515", 4.0], ["2016-06-02T17:45:03.046611", 0.8], ["2016-06-02T17:45:05.582556", 2.2], ["2016-06-02T17:45:23.093532", 0.7]]}
```
***
### GET _**/api/3/:plugin/history/:nb**_
Return the latest nb history stats for the specific ``plugin``
**Only available in Glances 2.7 or higher**
Request parameters:
* plugin: plugin name
* nb: number of history value
Request response:
* 200 - application/json: dict of list of tuple (timestamp, value)
* 404 - Returned if the property does not exist
Example: _/api/3/cpu/history/2_
```
{"user": [["2016-06-02T17:45:23.093514", 3.2], ["2016-06-02T17:47:06.390767", 2.1]], "system": [["2016-06-02T17:45:23.093532", 0.7], ["2016-06-02T17:47:06.390786", 0.2]]}
```
***
### GET _**/api/3/:plugin/:item/history**_
Return the item history stats for the specific ``plugin``
**Only available in Glances 2.7 or higher**
Request parameters:
* plugin: plugin name
* item: item to retrieve
Request response:
* 200 - application/json: dict of list of tuple (timestamp, value)
* 404 - Returned if the property does not exist
Example: _/api/3/cpu/user/history
```
{"user": [["2016-06-02T17:49:28.822984", 2.4], ["2016-06-02T17:49:45.982829", 2.4], ["2016-06-02T17:49:49.566442", 1.5]]}
```
***
### GET _**/api/3/:plugin/:item/history/:nb**_
Return the latest nb item history stats for the specific ``plugin``
**Only available in Glances 2.7 or higher**
Request parameters:
* plugin: plugin name
* item: item to retrieve
* nb: number of history value
Request response:
* 200 - application/json: dict of list of tuple (timestamp, value)
* 404 - Returned if the property does not exist
Example: _/api/3/cpu/user/history/2
```
{"user": [["2016-06-02T17:49:49.566442", 1.5], ["2016-06-02T17:51:20.527461", 2.4]]}
```
***
### GET _**/api/3/all/limits**_
Return all limits of the server side
Request parameters:
* None
Request response:
* 200 - application/json: dictionnary of dictionnary
* 404 - Returned if the property does not exist
Example: _/api/3/all/limits_
```
{u'load': {u'load_critical': 5.0, u'load_careful': 0.7, u'load_warning': 1.0}, u'help': {}, u'memswap': {u'memswap_careful': 50.0, u'memswap_critical': 90.0, u'memswap_warning': 70.0}, ...
```
***
### GET _**/api/3/all/views**_
Return all views information (could be usefull to display the stats)
Request parameters:
* None
Request response:
* 200 - application/json: dictionnary of dictionnary
* 404 - Returned if the property does not exist
Example: _/api/3/all/views_
```
{u'load': {u'cpucore': {u'decoration': u'DEFAULT', u'optional': False, u'additional': False, u'splittable': False}, u'min1': {u'decoration': u'DEFAULT', u'optional': False, u'additional': False, u'splittable': False}, u'min5': {u'decoration': u'OK', u'optional': False, u'additional': False, u'splittable': False}, u'min15': {u'decoration': u'OK_LOG', u'optional': False, u'additional': False, u'splittable': False}}, u'help': {}, u'memswap': {u'used': {u'decoration': u'OK_LOG', u'optional': False, u'additional': False, u'splittable': False}, u'percent': {u'decoration': u'DEFAULT', u'optional': False, u'additional': False, u'splittable': False}, u'free': {u'decoration': u'DEFAULT', u'optional': False, u'additional': False, u'splittable': False}, u'sout': {u'decoration': u'DEFAULT', u'optional': False, u'additional': False, u'splittable': False}, u'total': {u'decoration': u'DEFAULT', u'optional': False, u'additional': False, u'splittable': False}, u'sin': {u'decoration': u'DEFAULT', u'optional': False, u'additional': False, u'splittable': False}}, u'processlist': {}, u'uptime': {}, u'monitor': {}, ...
```
***
### GET _**/api/3/:plugin/limits**_
Return the limits for the specific ``plugin``
Request parameters:
* plugin: plugin name
Request response:
* 200 - application/json: dictionnary
* 404 - Returned if the property does not exist
Example: _/api/3/mem/limits_
```
{"mem_careful": 50.0, "mem_critical": 90.0, "mem_warning": 70.0}
```
***
### GET _**/api/3/args**_
*New in 2.6 or +*
Return all Glances command line arguments
Request parameters:
* None
Request response:
* 200 - application/json: dictionnary
* 404 - Returned if the property does not exist
Example: _/api/3/args_
```
{"full_quicklook": false, "snmp_version": "2c", "network_cumul": false, "help_tag": false, "snmp_port": 161, "export_csv": null, "export_statsd": false, "network_sum": false, "enable_process_extended": false, "process_short_name": true, "snmp_community": "public", "disable_sensors": false
```
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### GET _**/api/3/args/:item**_
*New in 2.6 or +*
Return Glances command line argument for the given item
Request parameters:
* None
Request response:
* 200 - application/json: dictionnary
* 400 - Item did not exist
* 404 - Returned if the property does not exist
Example: Return the refresh time _/api/2/args/time_
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