You can create a group of machines to collect logs and deliver configuration.

Request syntax

POST /machinegroups HTTP/1.1
Authorization: <AuthorizationString> 
Content-Type:application/json
Content-Length:<Content Length>
Content-MD5<:<Content MD5>
Date: <GMT Date>
Host: <Project Endpoint>
x-log-apiversion: 0.6.0
x-log-signaturemethod: hmac-sha1
{
    "groupName" : "testgroup",
    "groupType" : "",
    "groupAttribute" : {
        "externalName" : "testgroup",
        "groupTopic": "testgrouptopic"
    },
    "machineIdentifyType" : "ip",
    "machineList" : [
        "test-ip1",
        "test-ip2"
    ]
}

Request parameters

Body parameters

Parameter name Type Required Description
groupName string Yes The machine group name, which is unique in the same project.
groupType string No The machine group type, which is empty by default.
machineIdentifyType string Yes The machine identification type, including IP and user-defined identity.
groupAttribute object Yes The machine group attribute, which is empty by default.
machineList array Yes The specific machine identification, which can be an IP address or user-defined identity.

groupAttribute description

Attribute name Type Required Description
groupTopic string No The topic of a machine group, which is empty by default.
externalName string No The external identification that the machine group depends, which is empty by default.
Request header

The CreateMachineGroup API does not have a special request header. For more information about the public request headers of Log Service APIs, see Public request header.

Response header

The CreateMachineGroup API does not have a special response header. For more information about the public response headers of Log Service APIs, see Public response header.

Response element

The returned HTTP status code is 200.

Error code

Besides the common error codes of Log Service APIs, the CreateMachineGroup API may return the following special error codes.

HTTP status code ErrorCode ErrorMessage
400 MachineGroupAlreadyExist group {GroupName} already exists
400 InvalidParameter invalid group resource json
500 InternalServerError Internal server error

示例

请求示例： 
POST /machinegroups HTTP/1.1
Header :
{
    "x-log-apiversion": "0.6.0",
    "Authorization": "LOG 94to3z418yupi6ikawqqd370:aws39CB5OUyx39BjQ5bW3G/zBv4=",
    "Host": "ali-test-project.cn-hangzhou-devcommon-intranet.sls.aliyuncs.com",
    "Date": "Tue, 10 Nov 2015 17:57:33 GMT",
    "Content-Length": "187",
    "x-log-signaturemethod": "hmac-sha1",
    "Content-MD5": "82033D507DEAAD72067BB58DFDCB590D",
    "User-Agent": "sls-java-sdk-v-0.6.0",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "x-log-bodyrawsize": "0"
}
Body :
{
    "groupName": "test-machine-group",
    "groupType": "",
    "machineIdentifyType": "ip",
    "groupAttribute": {
        "groupTopic": "testtopic",
        "externalName": "testgroup"
    },
    "machineList": [
        \"127.0.0.1\
        \"127.0.0.2\"
    ]
}
Response example 
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Header :
{
    "Date": "Tue, 10 Nov 2015 17:57:33 GMT",
    "Content-Length": "0",
    "x-log-requestid": "5642300D99248CB76D005D36",
    "Connection": "close",
    "Server": "nginx/1.6.1"
}