http-post

Protocol: http.post

http.post sends a POST with a body, a text, and returns what http.get returns. Here, the count of the errors logged in the last 15 minutes, asked to an Elasticsearch or OpenSearch index.

How to read it

• json.write builds the JSON body from arrays: the quotes, the @ and the nesting are written for you.
• headers=array('Content-Type' => 'application/json'): the type of the body is a header the author writes.
• What a POST does on the target is the author's judgement: this one only counts. Use an account that can only read.
• A body that carries a secret makes the whole answer a secret, but its code and its time (see examples/api/backup-jobs).

To adapt it

• The address names the index (logs-*) and _count; change the query for the field and the value your logs use.
• An account: user=, password= (see examples/protocols/http-get-account).