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Last updated: 2025-11-13 20:42:10

1. API Description

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

This API (DescribeVpcInstances) is used to query a list of VCM instances on VPC.

A maximum of 20 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: DescribeVpcInstances.
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.
Filters.N	Yes	Array of Filter	Filter condition. `RouteTableIds` and `Filters` cannot be specified at the same time. vpc-id - String - (Filter condition) VPC instance ID, such as `vpc-f49l6u0z`. instance-type - String - (Filter condition) CVM instance ID. instance-name - String - (Filter condition) CVM name.
Offset	No	Integer	Offset.
Limit	No	Integer	The number of requested objects.

3. Output Parameters

Parameter Name	Type	Description
InstanceSet	Array of CvmInstance	List of CVM instances.
TotalCount	Integer	The number of eligible CVM instances.
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 VPC-based CVM instances

Input Example

https://vpc.intl.tencentcloudapi.com/?Action=DescribeVpcInstances
&Filters.0.Name=vpc-id
&Filters.0.Values.0=vpc-12345678
&Offset=0
&Limit=10
&<Common request parameters>

Output Example

{
    "Response": {
        "InstanceSet": [
            {
                "VpcId": "vpc-12345678",
                "SubnetId": "subnet-12345678",
                "InstanceId": "ins-12345678",
                "InstanceName": "test",
                "InstanceState": "RUNNING",
                "InstanceType": "S2.SMALL2",
                "CPU": 1,
                "Memory": 1,
                "EniLimit": 2,
                "EniIpLimit": 2,
                "InstanceEniCount": 1,
                "CreatedTime": "2020-01-01 10:00:00"
            }
        ],
        "TotalCount": 1,
        "RequestId": "74883e1b-5901-46de-ae1e-d6e2cf591c5b"
    }
}

5. Developer Resources

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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
InternalError.ModuleError	Internal module error
InvalidParameter.FilterInvalidKey	The specified filter condition does not exist.
InvalidParameterValue.LimitExceeded	The parameter value exceeds the limit.
InvalidParameterValue.Malformed	Invalid input parameter format.
InvalidParameterValue.Range	The parameter value is not in the specified range.
ResourceNotFound	The resource does not exist.

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