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DescribeInstancesStatus

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Last updated: 2025-11-13 10:59:57

1. API Description

Domain name for API request: cvm.intl.tencentcloudapi.com.

This API is used to query the status of instances.

  • You can query the status of an instance with its ID.
  • If no parameter is defined, the status of a certain number of instances under the current account will be returned. The number is specified by Limit and is 20 by default.

A maximum of 40 requests can be initiated per second for this API.

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2. Input Parameters

The following request parameter list only provides API request parameters and some common parameters. For the complete common parameter list, see Common Request Parameters.

Parameter Name Required Type Description
Action Yes String Common Params. The value used for this API: DescribeInstancesStatus.
Version Yes String Common Params. The value used for this API: 2017-03-12.
Region Yes String Common Params. For more information, please see the list of regions supported by the product. This API only supports: ap-bangkok, ap-beijing, ap-chengdu, ap-chongqing, ap-guangzhou, ap-hongkong, ap-jakarta, ap-nanjing, ap-seoul, ap-shanghai, ap-shanghai-fsi, ap-shenzhen-fsi, ap-singapore, ap-tokyo, eu-frankfurt, na-ashburn, na-siliconvalley, sa-saopaulo.
InstanceIds.N No Array of String Query by instance ID(s). For example, instance ID: ins-xxxxxxxx. For the specific format, refer to section Ids.N of the API Introduction. You can query up to 100 instances in each request.
Offset No Integer Offset; default value: 0. For more information on Offset, see the corresponding section in API Introduction.
Limit No Integer Number of results returned; default value: 20; maximum: 100. For more information on Limit, see the corresponding section in API Introduction.

3. Output Parameters

Parameter Name Type Description
TotalCount Integer Number of instance states meeting the filtering conditions.
InstanceStatusSet Array of InstanceStatus Instance status list.
RequestId String The unique request ID, generated by the server, will be returned for every request (if the request fails to reach the server for other reasons, the request will not obtain a RequestId). RequestId is required for locating a problem.

4. Example

Example1 Querying the list of instance status

This example shows you how to query the status of two specified instances.

Input Example

POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: cvm.intl.tencentcloudapi.com
Content-Type: application/json
X-TC-Action: DescribeInstancesStatus
<Common request parameters>

{
    "InstanceIds": [
        "ins-r8hr2upy",
        "ins-5d8a23rs"
    ],
    "Offset": 0,
    "Limit": 10
}

Output Example

{
    "Response": {
        "TotalCount": 2,
        "InstanceStatusSet": [
            {
                "InstanceId": "ins-r8hr2upy",
                "InstanceState": "RUNNING"
            },
            {
                "InstanceId": "ins-5d8a23rs",
                "InstanceState": "STOPPED"
            }
        ],
        "RequestId": "6ef60bec-0242-43af-bb20-270359fb54a7"
    }
}

5. Developer Resources

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TencentCloud API 3.0 integrates SDKs that support various programming languages to make it easier for you to call APIs.

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6. Error Code

The following only lists the error codes related to the API business logic. For other error codes, see Common Error Codes.

Error Code Description
InternalServerError Internal error.
InvalidFilter Invalid filter.
InvalidInstanceId.Malformed Invalid instance ID. The specified instance ID has an invalid format. For example, ins-1122 has an invalid ID length.
InvalidParameterValue Incorrect parameter value.
InvalidParameterValue.InstanceIdMalformed Invalid instance ID. Please enter a valid ID, such as ins-xxxxxxxx (“x” represents a lower-case letter or a number).
InvalidParameterValue.LimitExceeded The number of parameter values exceeds the limit.
UnauthorizedOperation.InvalidToken Check if the token is valid.
UnsupportedOperation Unsupported operation.

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