/api/dropcaches

This endpoint purges the in-memory data cached in OpenTSDB. This includes all UID to name and name to UID maps for metrics, tag names and tag values.

Verbs

• GET
• POST

Requests

This endpoint does not require any parameters via query string or body.

http://localhost:4242/api/dropcaches

Response

The response is a hash map of information. Unless something goes wrong, this should always result in a status of 200 and a message of Caches dropped.

{
  "message": "Caches dropped",
  "status": "200"
}