Queries the user data of an Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instance.

Description

  • The returned user data is encoded in Base64.
  • If the instance does not have user data configured, an empty result is returned.

Debugging

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Request parameters

Parameter Type Required Example Description
Action String Yes DescribeUserData

The operation that you want to perform. Set the value to DescribeUserdata.

RegionId String Yes cn-hangzhou

The region ID of the instance. You can call the DescribeRegions operation to query the most recent region list.

InstanceId String Yes i-bp14bnftyqhxg9ij****

The ID of the instance.

Response parameters

Parameter Type Example Description
RequestId String 473469C7-AA6F-4DC5-B3DB-A3DC0DE3C83E

The ID of the request.

InstanceId String i-bp14bnftyqhxg9ij****

The ID of the instance.

UserData String ZWNobyBoZWxsbyBlY321ABC

The user data of the instance.

RegionId String cn-hangzhou

The region ID of the instance.

Examples

Sample requests

https://ecs.aliyuncs.com/?Action= DescribeUserdata
&RegionId=cn-shenzhen
&InstanceId=i-bp14bnftyqhxg9ij****
&<Common request parameters>

Sample success responses

XML format 

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type:application/xml

<DescribeUserdataResponse>
    <RequestId>473469C7-AA6F-4DC5-B3DB-A3DC0DE3C83E</RequestId>
    <UserData>ZWNobyBoZWxsbyBlY321ABC</UserData>
    <InstanceId>i-bp14bnftyqhxg9ij****</InstanceId>
    <RegionId>cn-shenzhen</RegionId>
</DescribeUserdataResponse>

JSON format 

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type:application/json

{
  "RequestId" : "473469C7-AA6F-4DC5-B3DB-A3DC0DE3C83E",
  " UserData " : "ZWNobyBoZWxsbyBlY321ABC",
  " InstanceId " : "i-bp14bnftyqhxg9ij****",
  " RegionId" : "cn-shenzhen"
}

Error codes

HTTP status code Error code Error message Description
404 InvalidInstanceId.NotFound The specified InstanceId does not exist. The error message returned because the specified InstanceId parameter is invalid.

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