---
title: "create metric_drain"
method: POST
path: "/accounts/{account_id}/metric_drains"
tags: ["MetricDrains"]
---

# create metric_drain

`POST /accounts/{account_id}/metric_drains`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.aptible.com`
- URL: `https://api.aptible.com/accounts/{account_id}/metric_drains`
- Auth: API key in header `Authorization`

Creates a new metric drain for the specified account.

## Path parameters

- `account_id` integer, required

## Query parameters

- `no_embed` boolean

## Headers

- `Prefer` 'no_sensitive_extras=true'

## Request body

- CreateMetricDrainRequest
  - `handle` string, required
  - `drain_type` string, required
  - `drain_configuration` CreateMetricDrainRequestDrainConfiguration: For external metric drain hosts
    - `address` string, uri
    - `username` string
    - `password` string
    - `database` string
    - `api_key` string
    - `series_url` string, uri
    - `authToken` string
    - `bucket` string
    - `org` string
  - `database` string, uri: For Deploy-hosted InfluxDB instances
  - `database_id` integer: For Deploy-hosted InfluxDB instances

## Response `201`

successful

- MetricDrain
  - `id` integer, required
  - `_type` string, required
  - `handle` string, required
  - `created_at` string, dateTime, required
  - `updated_at` string, dateTime, required
  - `status` string, required
  - `drain_type` string, required
  - `unified` boolean
  - `drain_configuration` MetricDrainDrainConfiguration
    - `address` string, uri
    - `username` string
    - `password` string
    - `database` string
    - `api_key` string
    - `series_url` string, uri
  - `aggregator_ca_certificate` string, required
  - `aggregator_ca_private_key_blob` string, required
  - `aggregator_host` string, required
  - `aggregator_port_mapping` array[], required
    - integer[]
  - `aggregator_instance_id` string, required
  - `aggregator_docker_name` string, required
  - `aggregator_allocation` string[], required
  - `_links` MetricDrainLinks
    - `account` ListAccountsForStack200ResponseLinksStack
      - `href` string, uri
    - `database` ListAccountsForStack200ResponseLinksStack
      - `href` string, uri
    - `operations` ListAccountsForStack200ResponseLinksStack
      - `href` string, uri
    - `containers` ListAccountsForStack200ResponseLinksStack
      - `href` string, uri
    - `self` ListAccountsForStack200ResponseLinksStack
      - `href` string, uri

## Other responses

- `default`: Error response. Often a 4xx or 5xx status code

## Changes

- **2026-10-20** `ba72edfe0324`: 1 info
  - added the optional property `unified` to the response with the `201` status
- **2026-07-24** `1dc1e5b8c6eb`: 1 breaking, 2 info
  - the response property `drain_configuration` became optional for the status `201`
  - added the new optional `header` request parameter `Prefer`
  - added the new optional `query` request parameter `no_embed`
- **2025-01-14** `e2b8c5639d89`: 3 info
  - added the new optional request property `drain_configuration/authToken`
  - added the new optional request property `drain_configuration/bucket`
  - added the new optional request property `drain_configuration/org`

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/aptible/apis/aptible-api-v1/changes/accounts/:account_id/metric_drains/post.md)

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