You can use the API to add metrics to a server at Nixstats. This can be useful to post statistics to our API from inside your applications (error counts for example).
Using CURL with PHP
Using CURL from the command line
Using CURL with PHP
<?php
$timestamp = time();
$api_token = '3318e3223ac57e7aa5269a4aaf1abc1a2';
$server_id = '5aafddba3a2bbd3ae5230aa30';
// Creating 5 data points of the last 5 minutes.
$data_points[] = array($timestamp, 45);
$data_points[] = array($timestamp-60, 42);
$data_points[] = array($timestamp-120, 49);
$data_points[] = array($timestamp-180, 55);
$data_points[] = array($timestamp-240, 95);
$payload['metrics'][] = array("metric" => "motherboard.temp", "points" => $data_points);
//Submit several metric sets at once...
//$payload['metrics'][] = array("metric" => "motherboard.fanspeed", "points" => $data_points);
$ch = curl_init('https://api.eu.nixstats.com/v1/server/'.$server_id.'/store?token='.$api_token);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($payload));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
'Content-Type: application/json',
'Content-Length: ' . strlen(json_encode($payload)))
);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
echo $result;
?>
Using CURL from the command line
curl -X POST -H "Content-type: application/json" -d "{ \"metrics\" :
[{\"metric\":\"motherboard.temp\",
\"points\":[[1523439139, 20],[1523439339, 40],[1523439539, 70]]}]
}" https://api.eu.nixstats.com/v1/server/5aafddba3a2bbd3ae5230aa30/store?token=3318e3223ac57e7aa5269a4aaf1abc1a2
Updated on: 11 / 04 / 2018