Creates a namespace.

Operation description

Prerequisites

Hybrid Cloud Monitoring is activated. For more information, see Activate Hybrid Cloud Monitoring.

Description

This topic provides an example on how to create a namespace named aliyun. In this example, the data retention period of the namespace is set to cms.s1.3xlarge. The returned result indicates that the namespace is created.

Debugging

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Debug

Authorization information

The following table shows the authorization information corresponding to the API. The authorization information can be used in the Action policy element to grant a RAM user or RAM role the permissions to call this API operation. Description:

Operation: the value that you can use in the Action element to specify the operation on a resource.
Access level: the access level of each operation. The levels are read, write, and list.
Resource type: the type of the resource on which you can authorize the RAM user or the RAM role to perform the operation. Take note of the following items:
- The required resource types are displayed in bold characters.
- If the permissions cannot be granted at the resource level, All Resources is used in the Resource type column of the operation.
Condition Key: the condition key that is defined by the cloud service.
Associated operation: other operations that the RAM user or the RAM role must have permissions to perform to complete the operation. To complete the operation, the RAM user or the RAM role must have the permissions to perform the associated operations.

Operation	Access level	Resource type	Condition key	Associated operation
cms:CreateCustomNamespace	create	All Resources *	none	none

Request parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description	Example
Namespace	string	Yes	The name of the namespace. The name can contain lowercase letters, digits, and hyphens (-).	aliyun
Description	string	No	The description of the namespace.
Spec	string	No	The data retention period. Valid values: cms.s1.large (Retention Period 15 Days) cms.s1.xlarge (Retention Period 32 Days) cms.s1.2xlarge (Retention Period 63 Days) cms.s1.3xlarge (Retention Period 93 Days) (default) cms.s1.6xlarge (Retention Period 185 Days) cms.s1.12xlarge (Retention Period 367 Days) For information about the pricing for different retention periods, see the Pricing section in Billing of the dashboard feature.	cms.s1.3xlarge
NamespaceType	string	No	The storage scheme of metric data. Valid values: m_prom_user: The metric data is stored in Simple Log Service. m_prom_pool: The metric data is stored in the private storage space provided by CloudMonitor. Note For more information about the storage schemes of metric data, see Data storage schemes for Hybrid Cloud Monitoring.	m_prometheus
NamespaceRegion	string	No	The region where the metric data is stored.	cn-hangzhou

For more information about common request parameters, see Common parameters.

Response parameters

Parameter	Type	Description	Example
	object	None.
Code	string	The response code.	Success
Message	string	The error message returned.	Namespace.Existed
RequestId	string	The request ID.	3843D23A-FB9E-5DC8-BCCC-458768B79296
Success	string	Indicates whether the request was successful. Valid values: true false	true

Examples

Sample success responses

JSONformat

{
  "Code": "Success",
  "Message": "Namespace.Existed",
  "RequestId": "3843D23A-FB9E-5DC8-BCCC-458768B79296",
  "Success": "true"
}

Error codes

HTTP status code	Error code	Error message
400	%s	%s
500	InternalError	The request processing has failed due to some unknown error.

For a list of error codes, visit the Service error codes.

Change history

Change time	Summary of changes	Operation
2023-11-21	The Error code has changed. The request parameters of the API has changed	View Change Details
2022-03-29	Add Operation	View Change Details