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openapi: 3.2.0
info:
version: Latest
title: Cumulocity Device statistics API
x-logo:
url: https://www.cumulocity.com/docs/images/logo-platform.svg
backgroundColor: '#F8F8F8'
altText: Cumulocity
href: https://www.cumulocity.com/api
description: '# REST implementation
This section describes the aspects common to all REST-based interfaces of Cumulocity. The interfaces are based on the Hypertext Transfer Protocol 1.1 using HTTPS. ## HTTP usage
### Application management
Cumulocity uses a so-called "application key" to distinguish requests coming from devices and traffic from applications. If you write an application, pass the following header as part of all requests:
```markup
X-Cumulocity-Application-Key:
```
For example, if you registered your application in the Cumulocity Administration application with the key "myapp", your requests should contain the header:
```markup
X-Cumulocity-Application-Key: myapp
```
This makes your application subscribable and billable. If you implement a device, do not pass the key. > **ⓘ Info:** Make sure that you pass the key in **all** requests coming from an application. If you leave out the key,
> the request will be considered as a device request, and the corresponding device will be marked as "available". ### Limited HTTP clients
If you use an HTTP client that can only perform GET and POST methods in HTTP, you can emulate the other methods through an additional "X-HTTP-METHOD" header. Simply issue a POST request and add the header, specifying the actual REST method to be executed. For example, to emulate the "PUT" (modify) method, you can use:
```http
POST ... X-HTTP-METHOD: PUT
```
### Processing mode
Every update request (PUT, POST, DELETE) executes with a so-called *processing mode*. The processing modes are as follows:
|Processing mode|Description|
|---|---|
|PERSISTENT (default)|Stores data in the Cumulocity database and sends data to the Streaming Analytics engine. Afterwards, Cumulocity returns the result of the request. This is the default mode.|
|TRANSIENT|Sends data to the Streaming Analytics engine and immediately returns the results asynchronously but does not store data in Cumulocity’s database. This mode saves storage and processing costs and is useful for example when tracking devices in real time without requiring data to be stored.|
|QUIESCENT|Behaves similar to the persistent mode with the exception that no real-time notifications will be sent.|
|CEP|Behaves like the transient mode with the exception that no real-time notifications are sent.|
To explicitly control the processing mode of an update request, you can use the "X-Cumulocity-Processing-Mode" header with a value of either "PERSISTENT", "TRANSIENT", "QUIESCENT" or "CEP":
```markup
X-Cumulocity-Processing-Mode: PERSISTENT
```
> **ⓘ Info:** Events are always delivered to CEP/Apama for all processing modes. This is independent from real-time notifications. ### Authorization
All requests issued to Cumulocity are subject to authorization. To determine the required permissions, see the "Required role" entries for the individual requests. To learn more about the different permissions and the concept of ownership in Cumulocity, see Getting started > Technical concepts > Security aspects > Access control > Managing roles and assigning permissions in the Cumulocity user documentation. > **⚠️ Important:** In the Cumulocity API, each granular permission is identified by a unique “permission” string, which is prefixed with ROLE_ (for example, ROLE_ALARM_READ, ROLE_INVENTORY_ADMIN). Therefore, permissions are frequently referred to as “roles” throughout the API as well as in the configuration files. For example, the microservice manifest includes a requiredRoles field, which actually expects a permission string. See also the Glossary of the Cumulocity user documentation for the usage of the terms “permission” and “role” in the Cumulocity context. ### Media types
Each type of data is associated with an own media type. The general format of media types is:
```markup
application/vnd.com.nsn.cumulocity.+json;ver=;charset=UTF-8
```
Each media type contains a parameter `ver` indicating the version of the type.'
servers:
- description: Cumulocity tenant
url: https://<TENANT_DOMAIN>
security:
- Basic: []
- OAI-Secure: []
- SSO: []
- JWT-IAM: []
tags:
- name: Device statistics
description: 'Device statistics are collected for each inventory object with at least one measurement, event or alarm. There are no additional checks if the inventory object is marked as device using the `c8y_IsDevice` fragment. When the first measurement, event or alarm is created for a specific inventory object, Cumulocity is always considering this as a device and starts counting.
Device statistics are counted with daily and monthy rate. All requests are considered when counting device statistics, no matter which processing mode is used.
The following requests are counted:
* Alarm creation and update
* Event creation and update
* Measurement creation
* Bulk measurement creation is counted as multiple requests
* Bulk alarm status update is counted as multiple requests
* MQTT and SmartREST requests with multiple rows are counted as multiple requests
### Frequently asked questions
#### Are operations on device firmware counted?
**No**, device configuration and firmware update operate on inventory objects, hence they are not counted.
#### Are requests done by the UI applications, for example, when browsing device details, counted?
**No**, viewing device details performs only GET requests which are not counted.
#### Is the clear alarm operation done from the UI counted?
**Yes**, a clear alarm operation in fact performs an alarm update operation and it will be counted as device request.
#### Is there any operation performed on the device which is counted?
**Yes**, retrieving device logs requires from the device to create an event and attach a binary with logs to it. Those are two separate requests and both are counted.
#### When I have a device with children are the requests counted always to the root device or separately for each child?
Separately for each child.
#### Why do device statistics show significantly smaller request numbers than the total number of created and updated request from usage statistics?
The important aspect here is the moment of recording values for the counters. For inbound data usage statistics we count every request that passed authorization, including invalid requests, as stated in usage statistics description.
For device statistics it is different. We count requests after data is successfully stored in the database (or transient), which means the request was valid and there was no problem with persistence.
In summary, if you observe that your usage statistics counters are significantly larger than your device statistics counters, there is a good chance that some devices or microservices in your tenant are constantly sending invalid requests. In such a situation, the client should check the state of theirs tenant.'
paths:
/tenant/statistics/device/{tenantId}/monthly/{date}:
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/tenantId'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/monthlyDate'
get:
operationId: getTenantDeviceStatisticsMonthlyCollection
x-codegen-resource-name: getMonthlyDeviceStatistics
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/queryParam_currentPage'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/queryParam_deviceId'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/queryParam_pageSize'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/queryParam_withTotalPages'
tags:
- Device statistics
security:
- Basic: []
- OAI-Secure: []
- SSO: []
summary: Retrieve monthly device statistics
description: 'Retrieve monthly device statistics from a specific tenant (by a given ID).
Required roles
ROLE_TENANT_STATISTICS_READ'
x-code-samples:
- lang: cURL
source: 'curl --location --request GET "https://<TENANT_DOMAIN>/tenant/statistics/device/{tenantId}/monthly/{date}" \
--header "Authorization: Basic <AUTHORIZATION>"
'
- lang: C#
source: 'var client = new RestClient("https://<TENANT_DOMAIN>/tenant/statistics/device/{tenantId}/monthly/{date}");
client.Timeout = -1;
var request = new RestRequest(Method.GET);
request.AddHeader("Authorization", "Basic <AUTHORIZATION>");
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
Console.WriteLine(response.Content);
'
- lang: Java
source: "Unirest.setTimeouts(0, 0);\nHttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get(\"https://<TENANT_DOMAIN>/tenant/statistics/device/{tenantId}/monthly/{date}\")\n .header(\"Authorization\", \"Basic <AUTHORIZATION>\").asString();\n"
- lang: Node.js
source: "var unirest = require(\"unirest\");\nvar req = unirest(\"GET\", \"https://<TENANT_DOMAIN>/tenant/statistics/device/{tenantId}/monthly/{date}\")\n .headers({\n \"Authorization\": \"Basic <AUTHORIZATION>\"\n })\n .end(function (res) {\n if (res.error) throw new Error(res.error);\n console.log(res.raw_body);\n });\n"
- lang: Python
source: "import requests\n\nurl = \"https://<TENANT_DOMAIN>/tenant/statistics/device/{tenantId}/monthly/{date}\"\nheaders = {\n \"Authorization\": \"Basic <AUTHORIZATION>\"\n}\nresponse = requests.request(\"GET\", url, headers=headers)\nprint(response.text.encode(\"utf8\"))\n"
responses:
'200':
$ref: '#/components/responses/monthlyDeviceStatisticsCollectionFound'
'401':
$ref: '#/components/responses/unauthorizedError'
'403':
$ref: '#/components/responses/operationNotAuthorized'
/tenant/statistics/device/{tenantId}/daily/{date}:
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/tenantId'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/dailyDate'
get:
operationId: getTenantDeviceStatisticsDailyCollection
x-codegen-resource-name: getDailyDeviceStatistics
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/queryParam_currentPage'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/queryParam_deviceId'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/queryParam_pageSize'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/queryParam_withTotalPages'
tags:
- Device statistics
security:
- Basic: []
- OAI-Secure: []
- SSO: []
summary: Retrieve daily device statistics
description: 'Retrieve daily device statistics from a specific tenant (by a given ID).
Required roles
ROLE_TENANT_STATISTICS_READ'
x-code-samples:
- lang: cURL
source: 'curl --location --request GET "https://<TENANT_DOMAIN>/tenant/statistics/device/{tenantId}/daily/{date}" \
--header "Authorization: Basic <AUTHORIZATION>"
'
- lang: C#
source: 'var client = new RestClient("https://<TENANT_DOMAIN>/tenant/statistics/device/{tenantId}/daily/{date}");
client.Timeout = -1;
var request = new RestRequest(Method.GET);
request.AddHeader("Authorization", "Basic <AUTHORIZATION>");
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
Console.WriteLine(response.Content);
'
- lang: Java
source: "Unirest.setTimeouts(0, 0);\nHttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get(\"https://<TENANT_DOMAIN>/tenant/statistics/device/{tenantId}/daily/{date}\")\n .header(\"Authorization\", \"Basic <AUTHORIZATION>\").asString();\n"
- lang: Node.js
source: "var unirest = require(\"unirest\");\nvar req = unirest(\"GET\", \"https://<TENANT_DOMAIN>/tenant/statistics/device/{tenantId}/daily/{date}\")\n .headers({\n \"Authorization\": \"Basic <AUTHORIZATION>\"\n })\n .end(function (res) {\n if (res.error) throw new Error(res.error);\n console.log(res.raw_body);\n });\n"
- lang: Python
source: "import requests\n\nurl = \"https://<TENANT_DOMAIN>/tenant/statistics/device/{tenantId}/daily/{date}\"\nheaders = {\n \"Authorization\": \"Basic <AUTHORIZATION>\"\n}\nresponse = requests.request(\"GET\", url, headers=headers)\nprint(response.text.encode(\"utf8\"))\n"
responses:
'200':
$ref: '#/components/responses/dailyDeviceStatisticsCollectionFound'
'401':
$ref: '#/components/responses/unauthorizedError'
'403':
$ref: '#/components/responses/operationNotAuthorized'
components:
schemas:
desc_prevPage:
title: PreviousPageURL
description: A URI reference [[RFC3986](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986)] to a potential previous page of managed objects.
type: string
readOnly: true
desc_nextPage:
title: NextPageURL
description: A URI reference [[RFC3986](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986)] to a potential next page of managed objects.
type: string
readOnly: true
error:
type: object
properties:
error:
description: The type of error returned.
type: string
message:
description: A human-readable message providing more details about the error.
type: string
info:
description: A URI reference [[RFC3986](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986)] that identifies the error code reported.
type: string
desc_self:
title: SelfURL
description: A URL linking to this resource.
type: string
format: uri
readOnly: true
DeviceStatisticsCollection:
description: Statistics of the tenant devices.
type: object
properties:
next:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/desc_nextPage'
prev:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/desc_prevPage'
self:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/desc_self'
statistics:
description: An array containing the tenant device statistics.
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/DeviceStatistics'
DeviceStatistics:
description: Statistics of a specific device (identified by an ID).
type: object
properties:
count:
description: Sum of measurements, events and alarms created and updated for the specified device.
type: integer
minimum: 0
deviceId:
description: Unique identifier of the device.
type: string
minLength: 1
deviceParents:
description: List of unique identifiers of parents for the corresponding device. Available only with monthly data.
type:
- array
- 'null'
items:
description: Unique identifier of a parent.
type: string
deviceType:
description: Value of the `type` field from the corresponding device. Available only with monthly data.
type: string
parameters:
dailyDate:
name: date
in: path
description: Date (format YYYY-MM-dd) of the queried day.
required: true
schema:
type: string
format: date
minLength: 10
maxLength: 10
example: '2021-01-01'
queryParam_withTotalPages:
name: withTotalPages
in: query
description: 'When set to `true`, the returned result will contain in the statistics object the total number of pages. Only applicable on [range queries](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_query_(database)).
> **ⓘ Info:** To improve performance, the `totalPages` statistics are cached for 10 seconds.
'
schema:
type: boolean
default: false
example: true
monthlyDate:
name: date
in: path
description: Date (format YYYY-MM-dd) of the queried month (the day value is ignored).
required: true
schema:
type: string
format: date
minLength: 10
maxLength: 10
example: '2021-01-01'
queryParam_currentPage:
name: currentPage
in: query
description: The current page of the paginated results.
schema:
type: integer
minimum: 1
default: 1
example: 3
tenantId:
name: tenantId
in: path
description: Unique identifier of a Cumulocity tenant.
required: true
schema:
type: string
minLength: 1
example: t07007007
queryParam_pageSize:
name: pageSize
in: query
description: Indicates how many entries of the collection shall be returned. The upper limit for one page is 2,000 objects.
schema:
type: integer
minimum: 1
maximum: 2000
default: 5
example: 10
queryParam_deviceId:
name: deviceId
in: query
description: The ID of the device to search for.
schema:
type: string
minLength: 1
example: '115'
responses:
dailyDeviceStatisticsCollectionFound:
description: The request has succeeded and the devices statistics are sent in the response.
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/DeviceStatisticsCollection'
example:
next: http://<TENANT_DOMAIN>/tenant/statistics/device/t07007007/daily/2021-01-01?pageSize=5¤tPage=2
self: http://<TENANT_DOMAIN>/tenant/statistics/device/t07007007/daily/2021-01-01?pageSize=5¤tPage=1
statistics: []
monthlyDeviceStatisticsCollectionFound:
description: The request has succeeded and the devices statistics are sent in the response.
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/DeviceStatisticsCollection'
example:
next: http://<TENANT_DOMAIN>/tenant/statistics/device/t07007007/monthly/2021-01-01?pageSize=5¤tPage=2
self: http://<TENANT_DOMAIN>/tenant/statistics/device/t07007007/monthly/2021-01-01?pageSize=5¤tPage=1
statistics:
- deviceId: '115'
count: 10
deviceType: MyDevice
deviceParents:
- '100'
- deviceId: '116'
count: 7
operationNotAuthorized:
description: Not authorized to perform this operation.
unauthorizedError:
description: Authentication information is missing or invalid.
content:
application/vnd.com.nsn.cumulocity.error+json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/error'
example:
error: security/Unauthorized
message: 'Invalid credentials! : Bad credentials'
info: https://www.cumulocity.com/guides/reference-guide/#error_reporting
securitySchemes:
Basic:
type: http
scheme: basic
description: 'The authorization header is formed as `Basic <Base64(<tenantID>/<c8yuser>:<password>)>`. For instance, if your tenantID, username and password are **t0071234**, **testuser** and **secret123** respectively, you can generate the Base64 string with the following command:
```shell
$ echo -n t0071234/testuser:secret123 | base64
```
and your authorization header would look like this:
```
"Authorization": "Basic dDAwNzEyMzQvdGVzdHVzZXI6c2VjcmV0MTIz"
```
'
OAI-Secure:
type: http
scheme: bearer
description: 'This is the recommended authorization method because it provides high security using authorization tokens to prove the identity of the user, and it is the default login mode on creating new tenants. This mode is an enhancement of the previous OAuth Internal authentication (available prior to 10.13.0).
For more details about OAI-Secure authentication, see [Platform administration > Authentication > Basic settings > Login settings](https://www.cumulocity.com/docs/authentication/basic-settings/#login-settings) in the Cumulocity user documentation.
'
SSO:
type: oauth2
description: "The login with SSO requires a correct configuration on the [Cumulocity side](https://www.cumulocity.com/docs/authentication/sso/). With the configuration, an additional button is available on the Login page. After clicking the button, the user is redirected to authenticate with the configured authorization server. On successful login, the user is redirected to Cumulocity.\n\nAuthentication details are exchanged using cookies. There are two parts to it, the first is the authentication cookie that is handled automatically by the Cumulocity platform. The second is the XSRF-TOKEN cookie. When a client receives the cookie, it should take the value and put it in the X-XSRF-TOKEN request header in all subsequent requests.\n\nThe flow of authenticating with authentication code grant is as follows:\n\n\n\nThe first request executed by the browser is:\n\n```http\nGET /tenant/loginOptions\nHost: https://<TENANT_DOMAIN>\nAccept: application/vnd.com.nsn.cumulocity.loginoptioncollection+json\n```\n\nResponse sample:\n\n```json\n{\n \"loginOptions\": [\n {\n \"buttonName\": \"Login with oauth\",\n \"grantType\": \"<AUTHORIZATION_CODE>\",\n \"initRequest\": \"https://<TENANT_DOMAIN>/tenant/oauth?response_type=code&tenant_id=<TENANT_ID>\",\n \"self\": \"https://<TENANT_DOMAIN>/tenant/loginOptions/oauth2\",\n \"type\": \"oauth2\"\n },\n ...\n ],\n \"self\": \"http://<TENANT_DOMAIN>/tenant/loginOptions/\"\n}\n```\n\nThe browser must invoke the request provided in the initRequest parameter.\n\nThe initRequest initiates the redirect, in which the user is prompted for credentials. After successful login, the user is redirected back to the browser, where it must capture the code request parameter. Then the request to exchange the code for the token is as follows:\n\n```http\nPOST /tenant/oauth?grant_type=authorization_code&code=<CODE>\nHost: https://<TENANT_DOMAIN>\n```\n\nA successful response will have no body but the following response headers:\n\n```\nSet-Cookie: authorization=<TOKEN>;\nSet-Cookie: XSRF-TOKEN=<XSRF-TOKEN>;\n```\n\nThe authorization cookie is valid for two weeks.\n"
flows:
clientCredentials:
tokenUrl: /tenant/oauth?grant_type=authorization_code&code=<CODE>
scopes: {}
JWT-IAM:
type: http
scheme: bearer
bearerFormat: JWT
description: 'This kind of authentication substitutes the JWT authentication with OAuth2 access tokens from your Identity and Access Management (IAM).
You can enable this in the [SSO configuration](https://www.cumulocity.com/docs/authentication/sso/).
The HTTP header must include:
```
"Authorization": "Bearer <Access token>"
```
When a request with a bearer token in the header is received, Cumulocity checks if the access token is from your IAM (that is, if authentication is enabled in your SSO configuration), and verifies the authenticity of
the token remotely against the IAM.
'
x-tagGroups:
- name: Platform
tags:
- Platform API
- name: Alarms
tags:
- Alarm API
- Alarm notification API
- Alarms
- name: Applications
tags:
- Application API
- Applications
- Application versions
- Application binaries
- Bootstrap user
- Current application
- name: Audits
tags:
- Audit API
- Audits
- name: Device control
tags:
- Device control API
- Device control notification API
- Operations
- Bulk operations
- Device credentials
- New device requests
- Device control via SMS
- name: Events
tags:
- Event API
- Event notification API
- Events
- Attachments
- name: Feature toggles
tags:
- Feature toggles API
- name: Identity
tags:
- Identity API
- External IDs
- name: Inventory
tags:
- Inventory API
- Inventory notification API
- Managed objects
- Binaries
- Child operations
- Query language
- name: Measurements
tags:
- Measurement API
- Measurement notification API
- Measurements
- Measurements specifics
- name: Notifications 2.0
tags:
- About notifications 2.0
- Notification 2.0 API
- Subscriptions
- Tokens
- name: Real-time notifications
tags:
- Real-time notification API
- name: Retentions
tags:
- Retention rules
- name: Tenants
tags:
- Tenant API
- Tenants
- Tenant applications
- Trusted certificates
- Device statistics
- Usage statistics
- Options
- Login options
- Login tokens
- System options
- name: Users
tags:
- User API
- Current User
- Users
- Groups
- Roles
- Inventory Roles
- Device Permissions
- name: Certificate
tags:
- Certificate authority
- Device enrollment
x-provenance:
method: harvested
publisher: Cumulocity
source: https://cumulocity.com/api/core/dist/c8y-oas.yml
note: split by refine-openapis from the provider's own published document, verified by fetch (openapi/_original/*.fetch.json);
stamped by stamp-openapi-provenance.py (roadmap#793)