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Last updated: 2025-11-13 10:42:11

1. API Description

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

This API is used to query limitations on operations on an instance.

Currently you can use this API to query the maximum number of times you can modify the configuration of an instance.

A maximum of 10 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: DescribeInstancesOperationLimit.
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	Yes	Array of String	Query by instance ID(s). You can obtain the instance IDs from the value of `InstanceId` returned by the DescribeInstances API. 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.
Operation	Yes	String	Operation on the instance(s). INSTANCE_DEGRADE: downgrade the instance configurations

3. Output Parameters

Parameter Name	Type	Description
InstanceOperationLimitSet	Array of OperationCountLimit	The maximum number of times you can modify the instance configurations (degrading the configurations)
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 number of configuration downgrade operations allowed

Input Example

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

{
    "InstanceIds": [
        "ins-r7ov05ke"
    ],
    "Operation": "INSTANCE_DEGRADE"
}

Output Example

{
    "Response": {
        "InstanceOperationLimitSet": [
            {
                "CurrentCount": 0,
                "InstanceId": "ins-r7ov05ke",
                "LimitCount": 5,
                "Operation": "INSTANCE_DEGRADE"
            }
        ],
        "RequestId": "ce7aeaa3-37c9-48e2-abbf-7c1264cf5e9c"
    }
}

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
InvalidInstanceId.Malformed	Invalid instance `ID`. The specified instance `ID` has an invalid format. For example, `ins-1122` has an invalid `ID` length.
InvalidInstanceId.NotFound	No instance found.
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.

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