@jeffrey, thanks for your reminding. as follows, "openstack metric resource-type list" works well. (gnocchi-api)[root@control01 ~]# openstack metric resource-type list +----------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | name | attributes | +----------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | ceph_account | | | generic | | | host | - host_name: min_length: 0 , max_length: 255 , type: string , required: True | | host_disk | - host_name: min_length: 0 , max_length: 255 , type: string , required: True | | | - device_name: min_length: 0 , max_length: 255 , type: string , required: False | | host_network_interface | - host_name: min_length: 0 , max_length: 255 , type: string , required: True | | | - device_name: min_length: 0 , max_length: 255 , type: string , required: False | | identity | | | image | - container_format: min_length: 0 , max_length: 255 , type: string , required: True | | | - disk_format: min_length: 0 , max_length: 255 , type: string , required: True | | | - name: min_length: 0 , max_length: 255 , type: string , required: True | | instance | - image_ref: min_length: 0 , max_length: 255 , type: string , required: False | | | - host: min_length: 0 , max_length: 255 , type: string , required: True | | | - display_name: min_length: 0 , max_length: 255 , type: string , required: True | | | - flavor_id: min_length: 0 , max_length: 255 , type: string , required: True | | | - server_group: min_length: 0 , max_length: 255 , type: string , required: False | | instance_disk | - instance_id: required: True , type: uuid | | | - name: min_length: 0 , max_length: 255 , type: string , required: True | | instance_network_interface | - instance_id: required: True , type: uuid | | | - name: min_length: 0 , max_length: 255 , type: string , required: True | | ipmi | | | network | | | stack | | | swift_account | | | volume | - display_name: min_length: 0 , max_length: 255 , type: string , required: False | | | - volume_type: min_length: 0 , max_length: 255 , type: string , required: False | +----------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+