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<a href="#COPYRIGHT">COPYRIGHT</a>
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<li class='tl'>visage-api(5)</li>
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<h2 id="NAME">NAME</h2>
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<code>visage-api</code> - <span class="man-whatis">Reference documentation for the Visage JSON API</span>
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<h2 id="DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</h2>
<p>Visage is a web interface for viewing collectd statistics.</p>
<p>It also provides a JSON interface onto collectd's RRD data, giving you an
easy way to mash up the data.</p>
<p>This man page documents the different ways you can call the API.</p>
<h2 id="API-methods">API methods</h2>
<p>Calls to the API follow the <code>/data/&lt;hostnames>/&lt;plugins>/&lt;instances></code> pattern.</p>
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<li><p><code>/data</code></p>
<p>Display all the hosts metrics are available for.</p></li>
<li><p><code>/data/&lt;hostname>[,hostname][,...][,hostname]</code></p>
<p>Display all metrics available for the specified hostnames.</p>
<p><em>Example: Single hostname:</em></p>
<p><code>/data/localhost.localdomain</code></p>
<p><em>Example: Multiple hostnames:</em></p>
<p><code>/data/localhost.localdomain,foo-01.example.org,bar-23.example.org</code></p></li>
<li><p><code>/data/&lt;hostnames>/&lt;plugin>[,plugin][,...][,plugin]</code></p>
<p>Fetch all plugin data for the specified hostnames.</p>
<p><em>Example: Single host, single plugin:</em></p>
<p><code>/data/localhost.localdomain/load</code></p>
<p><em>Example: Multiple hosts, single plugin:</em></p>
<p><code>/data/localhost.localdomain,foo-01.example.org,bar-23.example.org/swap</code></p>
<p><em>Example: Multiple hosts, multiple plugins:</em></p>
<p><code>/data/localhost.localdomain,foo-01.example.org,bar-23.example.org/swap,df</code></p></li>
<li><p><code>/data/&lt;hostnames>/&lt;plugins>/&lt;instance>[,instance][,...][,instance]</code></p>
<p>Fetch data for the specific plugin instance, for the specified hostnames.</p>
<p><em>Example: Single host, single instance</em></p>
<p>`/data/localhost.localdomain/memory/memory-free</p>
<p><em>Example: Multiple hosts, multiple instances</em></p>
<p><code>/data/foo-01.example.org,bar-23.example.org/memory/memory-free,memory-used</code></p></li>
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<h2 id="AUTHOR">AUTHOR</h2>
<p> Lindsay Holmwood <a href="&#109;&#x61;&#x69;&#x6c;&#116;&#x6f;&#58;&#108;&#105;&#x6e;&#100;&#x73;&#x61;&#121;&#x40;&#x68;&#111;&#108;&#109;&#119;&#111;&#x6f;&#x64;&#46;&#x69;&#x64;&#46;&#97;&#x75;" data-bare-link="true">&#x6c;&#105;&#110;&#100;&#x73;&#x61;&#121;&#64;&#x68;&#111;&#x6c;&#109;&#119;&#111;&#111;&#x64;&#x2e;&#x69;&#x64;&#x2e;&#97;&#117;</a></p>
<h2 id="COPYRIGHT">COPYRIGHT</h2>
<p> MIT Licensed.</p>
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<li class='tc'>July 2013</li>
<li class='tr'>visage-api(5)</li>
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