Query formatting

API data queries need to be formatted before returned to the caller. Using API parameters, the caller may define the format he/she wishes to get back.

The following formats are supported:

format	module	content type	description
array	ssv	application/json	a JSON array
csv	csv	text/plain	a text table, comma separated, with a header line (dimension names) and \r\n at the end of the lines
csvjsonarray	csv	application/json	a JSON array, with each row as another array (the first row has the dimension names)
datasource	json	application/json	a Google Visualization Provider datasource javascript callback
datatable	json	application/json	a Google datatable
html	csv	text/html	an html table
json	json	application/json	a JSON object
jsonp	json	application/json	a JSONP javascript callback
markdown	csv	text/plain	a markdown table
ssv	ssv	text/plain	a space separated list of values
ssvcomma	ssv	text/plain	a comma separated list of values
tsv	csv	text/plain	a TAB delimited csv (MS Excel flavor)

For examples of each format, check the relative module documentation.

Metadata with the jsonwrap option

All data queries can be encapsulated to JSON object having metadata about the query and the results.

This is done by adding the options=jsonwrap to the API URL (if there are other options append ,jsonwrap to the existing ones).

This is such an object:

# curl -Ss 'https://registry.my-netdata.io/api/v1/data?chart=system.cpu&after=-3600&points=6&group=average&format=csv&options=nonzero,jsonwrap'
{
   "api": 1,
   "id": "system.cpu",
   "name": "system.cpu",
   "view_update_every": 600,
   "update_every": 1,
   "first_entry": 1540387074,
   "last_entry": 1540647070,
   "before": 1540647000,
   "after": 1540644000,
   "dimension_names": ["steal", "softirq", "user", "system", "iowait"],
   "dimension_ids": ["steal", "softirq", "user", "system", "iowait"],
   "latest_values": [0, 0.2493766, 1.745636, 0.4987531, 0],
   "view_latest_values": [0.0158314, 0.0516506, 0.866549, 0.7196127, 0.0050002],
   "dimensions": 5,
   "points": 6,
   "format": "csv",
   "result": "time,steal,softirq,user,system,iowait\n2018-10-27 13:30:00,0.0158314,0.0516506,0.866549,0.7196127,0.0050002\n2018-10-27 13:20:00,0.0149856,0.0529183,0.8673155,0.7121144,0.0049979\n2018-10-27 13:10:00,0.0137501,0.053315,0.8578097,0.7197613,0.0054209\n2018-10-27 13:00:00,0.0154252,0.0554688,0.899432,0.7200638,0.0067252\n2018-10-27 12:50:00,0.0145866,0.0495922,0.8404341,0.7011141,0.0041688\n2018-10-27 12:40:00,0.0162366,0.0595954,0.8827475,0.7020573,0.0041636\n",
 "min": 0,
 "max": 0
}

Downloading data query result files

Following the Google Visualization Provider guidelines, Netdata supports parsing tqx options.

Using these options, any Netdata data query can instruct the web browser to download the result and save it under a given filename.

For example, to download a CSV file with CPU utilization of the last hour, click here.

This is done by appending &tqx=outFileName:FILENAME to any data query. The output will be in the format given with &format=.