OpenFlowLogService - Virtual Private Cloud - Alibaba Cloud Documentation Center

Enables the flow log feature.

Operation description

You cannot repeatedly call the OpenFlowLogService operation within the specified period of time by using an Alibaba Cloud account.
You can call the GetFlowLogServiceStatus operation to query the status of the flow log feature.

Debugging

OpenAPI Explorer automatically calculates the signature value. For your convenience, we recommend that you call this operation in OpenAPI Explorer.

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
vpc:OpenFlowLogService	create	FlowLogService acs:vpc:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:flowlog/*	none	none

Request parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description	Example
ClientToken	string	No	The client token that is used to ensure the idempotence of the request. You can use the client to generate the token, but you must make sure that the token is unique among different requests. The token can contain only ASCII characters. Note If you do not set this parameter, the system automatically set ClientToken to the value of RequestId. The value of RequestId for each API request is different.	123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426655440000
RegionId	string	Yes	The region ID of the flow log. You can call the DescribeRegions operation to query the most recent region list.	cn-hangzhou

Response parameters

Parameter	Type	Description	Example
	object
RequestId	string	The ID of the request.	28CF47AB-B6C0-5FA2-80C7-2B28826A92CB
Code	string	The HTTP status code.	200
Message	string	The information returned after the flow log feature is enabled.	successful

Examples

Sample success responses

JSONformat

{
  "RequestId": "28CF47AB-B6C0-5FA2-80C7-2B28826A92CB",
  "Code": "200",
  "Message": "successful"
}

Error codes

HTTP status code	Error code	Error message	Description
400	OperationFailed.ExceedPurchaseLimit	You have reached the limit of purchase quantity.	-
400	Forbidden.RAM	User not authorized to operate on the specified resource, or this API doesn't support RAM.	-
400	OperationFailed.AliGroupUserCanNotBuyInnerCommodity	Vpc_flowlog_public has no group cloud product label, and users within the group are not allowed to purchase.	vpc_flowlog_public does not have a merchandise tag and cannot be purchased by an internal group user.
400	Forbidden.RAM	User not authorized to operate on the specified resource	The RAM user is unauthorized to perform the operation.
400	OperationFailed.QuotaNotEnough	Your quota is insufficient. Please contact your channel partner to increase your quota	-
400	Order.NoRealNameAuthentication	Real-name verification has not been completed for the account.	You have not performed real-name authentication. Please go to the account center to complete real-name authentication.
400	OperationFailed.BasicInfoUncompleted	You have not completed your basic personal information, please complete the information and try again.	Your basic information is incomplete. Specify the information and try again.

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

Change history

Change time	Summary of changes	Operation
2023-08-30	API Description Update. The Error code has changed	View Change Details
2023-03-16	The Error code has changed	View Change Details