Create time series
deprecated
Required capabilities:
timeSeriesAcl:WRITE
Creates one or more time series.
POST
/
timeseries
JavaScript SDK
const timeseries = [
{ name: 'Pressure sensor', assetId: 123 },
{ name: 'Temprature sensor', description: 'Pump abc', unit: 'C' },
];
const createdTimeseries = await client.timeseries.create(timeseries);from cognite.client.data_classes import TimeSeriesWrite
ts = client.time_series.create(TimeSeriesWrite(name="my_ts", data_set_id=123, external_id="foo"))
List<TimeseriesMetadata> upsertTimeseriesList = List.of(TimeseriesMetadata.newBuilder()
.setExternalId("10")
.setName("test_ts")
.setIsString(false)
.setIsStep(false)
.setDescription("Description")
.setUnit("TestUnits")
.putMetadata("type", "sdk-data-generator")
.putMetadata("sdk-data-generator", "sdk-data-generator")
.build());
client.timeseries().upsert(upsertTimeseriesList);
curl --request POST \
--url https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/api/v1/projects/{project}/timeseries \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '
{
"items": [
{
"externalId": "<string>",
"name": "<string>",
"legacyName": "<string>",
"isString": false,
"metadata": {},
"unit": "<string>",
"unitExternalId": "<string>",
"assetId": 4503599627370496,
"isStep": false,
"description": "<string>",
"securityCategories": [
123
],
"dataSetId": 4503599627370496
}
]
}
'<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/api/v1/projects/{project}/timeseries",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
'items' => [
[
'externalId' => '<string>',
'name' => '<string>',
'legacyName' => '<string>',
'isString' => false,
'metadata' => [
],
'unit' => '<string>',
'unitExternalId' => '<string>',
'assetId' => 4503599627370496,
'isStep' => false,
'description' => '<string>',
'securityCategories' => [
123
],
'dataSetId' => 4503599627370496
]
]
]),
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: Bearer <token>",
"Content-Type: application/json"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"strings"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/api/v1/projects/{project}/timeseries"
payload := strings.NewReader("{\n \"items\": [\n {\n \"externalId\": \"<string>\",\n \"name\": \"<string>\",\n \"legacyName\": \"<string>\",\n \"isString\": false,\n \"metadata\": {},\n \"unit\": \"<string>\",\n \"unitExternalId\": \"<string>\",\n \"assetId\": 4503599627370496,\n \"isStep\": false,\n \"description\": \"<string>\",\n \"securityCategories\": [\n 123\n ],\n \"dataSetId\": 4503599627370496\n }\n ]\n}")
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)
req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/api/v1/projects/{project}/timeseries")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n \"items\": [\n {\n \"externalId\": \"<string>\",\n \"name\": \"<string>\",\n \"legacyName\": \"<string>\",\n \"isString\": false,\n \"metadata\": {},\n \"unit\": \"<string>\",\n \"unitExternalId\": \"<string>\",\n \"assetId\": 4503599627370496,\n \"isStep\": false,\n \"description\": \"<string>\",\n \"securityCategories\": [\n 123\n ],\n \"dataSetId\": 4503599627370496\n }\n ]\n}"
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{
"items": [
{
"id": 4503599627370496,
"isString": true,
"type": "<string>",
"isStep": true,
"createdTime": 1730204346000,
"lastUpdatedTime": 1730204346000,
"externalId": "<string>",
"instanceId": {
"space": "<string>",
"externalId": "<string>"
},
"name": "<string>",
"metadata": {},
"unit": "<string>",
"unitExternalId": "<string>",
"assetId": 4503599627370496,
"description": "<string>",
"securityCategories": [
123
],
"dataSetId": 4503599627370496
}
]
}{
"code": 400,
"message": "<string>",
"missingFields": [
{}
]
}{
"error": {
"code": 409,
"message": "<string>",
"duplicated": [
{
"externalId": "my.known.id"
}
]
}
}{
"error": {
"code": 422,
"message": "<string>",
"duplicated": [
{
"id": 4503599627370496
}
]
}
}Authorizations
oidc-tokenoauth2-client-credentialsoauth2-open-industrial-dataoauth2-auth-code
Access token issued by the CDF project's configured identity provider. Access token must be an OpenID Connect token, and the project must be configured to accept OpenID Connect tokens. Use a header key of 'Authorization' with a value of 'Bearer $accesstoken'. The token can be obtained through any flow supported by the identity provider.
Scopes
Body
application/json
⌘I
JavaScript SDK
const timeseries = [
{ name: 'Pressure sensor', assetId: 123 },
{ name: 'Temprature sensor', description: 'Pump abc', unit: 'C' },
];
const createdTimeseries = await client.timeseries.create(timeseries);from cognite.client.data_classes import TimeSeriesWrite
ts = client.time_series.create(TimeSeriesWrite(name="my_ts", data_set_id=123, external_id="foo"))
List<TimeseriesMetadata> upsertTimeseriesList = List.of(TimeseriesMetadata.newBuilder()
.setExternalId("10")
.setName("test_ts")
.setIsString(false)
.setIsStep(false)
.setDescription("Description")
.setUnit("TestUnits")
.putMetadata("type", "sdk-data-generator")
.putMetadata("sdk-data-generator", "sdk-data-generator")
.build());
client.timeseries().upsert(upsertTimeseriesList);
curl --request POST \
--url https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/api/v1/projects/{project}/timeseries \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '
{
"items": [
{
"externalId": "<string>",
"name": "<string>",
"legacyName": "<string>",
"isString": false,
"metadata": {},
"unit": "<string>",
"unitExternalId": "<string>",
"assetId": 4503599627370496,
"isStep": false,
"description": "<string>",
"securityCategories": [
123
],
"dataSetId": 4503599627370496
}
]
}
'<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/api/v1/projects/{project}/timeseries",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
'items' => [
[
'externalId' => '<string>',
'name' => '<string>',
'legacyName' => '<string>',
'isString' => false,
'metadata' => [
],
'unit' => '<string>',
'unitExternalId' => '<string>',
'assetId' => 4503599627370496,
'isStep' => false,
'description' => '<string>',
'securityCategories' => [
123
],
'dataSetId' => 4503599627370496
]
]
]),
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: Bearer <token>",
"Content-Type: application/json"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"strings"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/api/v1/projects/{project}/timeseries"
payload := strings.NewReader("{\n \"items\": [\n {\n \"externalId\": \"<string>\",\n \"name\": \"<string>\",\n \"legacyName\": \"<string>\",\n \"isString\": false,\n \"metadata\": {},\n \"unit\": \"<string>\",\n \"unitExternalId\": \"<string>\",\n \"assetId\": 4503599627370496,\n \"isStep\": false,\n \"description\": \"<string>\",\n \"securityCategories\": [\n 123\n ],\n \"dataSetId\": 4503599627370496\n }\n ]\n}")
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)
req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/api/v1/projects/{project}/timeseries")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n \"items\": [\n {\n \"externalId\": \"<string>\",\n \"name\": \"<string>\",\n \"legacyName\": \"<string>\",\n \"isString\": false,\n \"metadata\": {},\n \"unit\": \"<string>\",\n \"unitExternalId\": \"<string>\",\n \"assetId\": 4503599627370496,\n \"isStep\": false,\n \"description\": \"<string>\",\n \"securityCategories\": [\n 123\n ],\n \"dataSetId\": 4503599627370496\n }\n ]\n}"
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{
"items": [
{
"id": 4503599627370496,
"isString": true,
"type": "<string>",
"isStep": true,
"createdTime": 1730204346000,
"lastUpdatedTime": 1730204346000,
"externalId": "<string>",
"instanceId": {
"space": "<string>",
"externalId": "<string>"
},
"name": "<string>",
"metadata": {},
"unit": "<string>",
"unitExternalId": "<string>",
"assetId": 4503599627370496,
"description": "<string>",
"securityCategories": [
123
],
"dataSetId": 4503599627370496
}
]
}{
"code": 400,
"message": "<string>",
"missingFields": [
{}
]
}{
"error": {
"code": 409,
"message": "<string>",
"duplicated": [
{
"externalId": "my.known.id"
}
]
}
}{
"error": {
"code": 422,
"message": "<string>",
"duplicated": [
{
"id": 4503599627370496
}
]
}
}