F5 HTTP Caches API

The HTTP Caches API from F5 — 2 operation(s) for http caches.

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Operations 3

GET /http/caches/ Return status of all caches #

GET /http/caches/{httpCacheZoneName} Return status of a cache #

DELETE /http/caches/{httpCacheZoneName} Reset cache statistics #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  version: '9.0'
  title: NGINX Plus REST HTTP Caches API
  description: NGINX Plus REST API provides access to NGINX Plus status information, on-the-fly configuration of upstream servers and key-value pairs management for http and stream.
servers:
- url: /api/9
tags:
- name: HTTP Caches
paths:
  /http/caches/:
    get:
      tags:
      - HTTP Caches
      summary: Return status of all caches
      description: Returns status of each cache configured by proxy_cache_path and other “*_cache_path” directives.
      operationId: getHttpCaches
      parameters:
      - name: fields
        in: query
        description: Limits which fields of cache zones will be output. If the “<literal>fields</literal>” value is empty, then only names of cache zones will be output.
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/NginxHTTPCachesMap'
        '404':
          description: Unknown version (*UnknownVersion*)
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/NginxError'
  /http/caches/{httpCacheZoneName}:
    parameters:
    - name: httpCacheZoneName
      in: path
      description: The name of the cache zone.
      required: true
      schema:
        type: string
    get:
      tags:
      - HTTP Caches
      summary: Return status of a cache
      description: Returns status of a particular cache.
      operationId: getHttpCacheZone
      parameters:
      - name: fields
        in: query
        description: Limits which fields of the cache zone will be output.
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/NginxHTTPCache'
        '404':
          description: 'Cache not found (*CacheNotFound*),

            unknown version (*UnknownVersion*)

            '
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/NginxError'
    delete:
      tags:
      - HTTP Caches
      summary: Reset cache statistics
      description: Resets statistics of cache hits/misses in a particular cache zone.
      operationId: deleteHttpCacheZoneStat
      responses:
        '204':
          description: Success
        '404':
          description: 'Cache not found (*CacheNotFound*),

            unknown version (*UnknownVersion*)

            '
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/NginxError'
        '405':
          description: Method disabled (*MethodDisabled*)
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/NginxError'
components:
  schemas:
    NginxHTTPCache:
      title: HTTP Cache
      type: object
      properties:
        size:
          type: integer
          description: The current size of the cache.
        max_size:
          type: integer
          description: The limit on the maximum size of the cache specified in the configuration.
        cold:
          type: boolean
          description: A boolean value indicating whether the “cache loader” process is still loading data from disk into the cache.
        hit:
          type: object
          properties:
            responses:
              type: integer
              description: The total number of <a href="https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_proxy_module.html#proxy_cache_valid">valid</a> responses read from the cache.
            bytes:
              type: integer
              description: The total number of bytes read from the cache.
        stale:
          type: object
          properties:
            responses:
              type: integer
              description: The total number of expired responses read from the cache (see <a href="https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_proxy_module.html#proxy_cache_use_stale">proxy_cache_use_stale</a> and other “<code>*_cache_use_stale</code>” directives).
            bytes:
              type: integer
              description: The total number of bytes read from the cache.
        updating:
          type: object
          properties:
            responses:
              type: integer
              description: The total number of expired responses read from the cache while responses were being updated (see <a href="https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_proxy_module.html#proxy_cache_use_stale_updating">proxy_cache_use_stale</a> and other “<code>*_cache_use_stale</code>” directives).
            bytes:
              type: integer
              description: The total number of bytes read from the cache.
        revalidated:
          type: object
          properties:
            responses:
              type: integer
              description: The total number of expired and revalidated responses read from the cache (see <a href="https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_proxy_module.html#proxy_cache_revalidate">proxy_cache_revalidate</a> and other “<code>*_cache_revalidate</code>” directives.
            bytes:
              type: integer
              description: The total number of bytes read from the cache.
        miss:
          type: object
          properties:
            responses:
              type: integer
              description: The total number of responses not found in the cache.
            bytes:
              type: integer
              description: The total number of bytes read from the proxied server.
            responses_written:
              type: integer
              description: The total number of responses written to the cache.
            bytes_written:
              type: integer
              description: The total number of bytes written to the cache.
        expired:
          type: object
          properties:
            responses:
              type: integer
              description: The total number of expired responses not taken from the cache.
            bytes:
              type: integer
              description: The total number of bytes read from the proxied server.
            responses_written:
              type: integer
              description: The total number of responses written to the cache.
            bytes_written:
              type: integer
              description: The total number of bytes written to the cache.
        bypass:
          type: object
          properties:
            responses:
              type: integer
              description: The total number of responses not looked up in the cache due to the <a href="https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_proxy_module.html#proxy_cache_bypass">proxy_cache_bypass</a> and other “<code>*_cache_bypass</code>” directives.
            bytes:
              type: integer
              description: The total number of bytes read from the proxied server.
            responses_written:
              type: integer
              description: The total number of responses written to the cache.
            bytes_written:
              type: integer
              description: The total number of bytes written to the cache.
      example:
        size: 530915328
        max_size: 536870912
        cold: false
        hit:
          responses: 254032
          bytes: 6685627875
        stale:
          responses: 0
          bytes: 0
        updating:
          responses: 0
          bytes: 0
        revalidated:
          responses: 0
          bytes: 0
        miss:
          responses: 1619201
          bytes: 53841943822
        expired:
          responses: 45859
          bytes: 1656847080
          responses_written: 44992
          bytes_written: 1641825173
        bypass:
          responses: 200187
          bytes: 5510647548
          responses_written: 200173
          bytes_written: 44992
    NginxError:
      title: Error
      description: 'nginx error object.

        '
      type: object
      properties:
        error:
          type: object
          properties:
            status:
              type: integer
              description: HTTP error code.
            text:
              type: string
              description: Error description.
            code:
              type: string
              description: Internal nginx error code.
        request_id:
          type: string
          description: The ID of the request, equals the value of the <a href="https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#var_request_id">$request_id</a> variable.
        href:
          type: string
          description: Link to reference documentation.
    NginxHTTPCachesMap:
      title: HTTP Caches
      description: "Status information of all HTTP caches configured by \n<a href=\"https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_proxy_module.html#proxy_cache_path\">proxy_cache_path</a>\nand other “<code>*_cache_path</code>” directives.\n"
      type: object
      additionalProperties:
        $ref: '#/components/schemas/NginxHTTPCache'
      example:
        http-cache:
          size: 530915328
          max_size: 536870912
          cold: false
          hit:
            responses: 254032
            bytes: 6685627875
          stale:
            responses: 0
            bytes: 0
          updating:
            responses: 0
            bytes: 0
          revalidated:
            responses: 0
            bytes: 0
          miss:
            responses: 1619201
            bytes: 53841943822
          expired:
            responses: 45859
            bytes: 1656847080
            responses_written: 44992
            bytes_written: 1641825173
          bypass:
            responses: 200187
            bytes: 5510647548
            responses_written: 200173
            bytes_written: 44992
        frontend-cache:
          size: 530915328
          max_size: 536870912
          cold: false
          hit:
            responses: 254032
            bytes: 6685627875
          stale:
            responses: 0
            bytes: 0
          updating:
            responses: 0
            bytes: 0
          revalidated:
            responses: 0
            bytes: 0
          miss:
            responses: 1619201
            bytes: 53841943822
          expired:
            responses: 45859
            bytes: 1656847080
            responses_written: 44992
            bytes_written: 1641825173
          bypass:
            responses: 200187
            bytes: 5510647548
            responses_written: 200173
            bytes_written: 44992