CreateLogAnalysisDownloadTask

1. API Description

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

This API is used to create a log analysis download task. After creation, you can query the download task via the DescribeLogAnalysisDownloadTasks API.
Note:

Supports up to 50 million log entries per download.
Log files are reserved for 3 days.
When multiple tasks exist at the same time, they are processed sequentially based on task creation time.

A maximum of 10 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: CreateLogAnalysisDownloadTask.
Version	Yes	String	Common Params. The value used for this API: 2022-09-01.
Region	No	String	Common Params. This parameter is not required.
ZoneId	Yes	String	Site ID.
Area	Yes	String	Data service area. Available values: mainland: within the Chinese mainland; overseas: global (excluding Mainland China). Note: If the service area of the site is "global availability zone", you need to query the data of mainland and overseas separately to obtain all data.
StartTime	Yes	Timestamp ISO8601	Start time, example value: 2020-04-29T00:00:00Z. The maximum span from the supported query start time to this day varies for different package versions. For details, see Package Selection Comparison.
EndTime	Yes	Timestamp ISO8601	End time, for example, 2020-04-30T00:00:00Z. The time span from the start time to the end time per request is up to 31 days.
LogType	No	String	Log type. Value range: l7-access-logs: Layer 7 Access Logs; web-attack: managed rule log. Defaults to l7-access-logs.
Condition	No	String	Log match condition. Maximum length 12KB.
Format	No	String	File format, available values: csv Defaults to csv.
Sort	No	String	Time sorting of raw logs. Available values: asc: ascending order; desc: descending order. Default is desc.

3. Output Parameters

Parameter Name	Type	Description
TaskId	String	Log analysis download task ID.
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 Creating a log analytics log download task

Download the L7 access logs for the selected site with ID "zone-2z55fgysdtmc" in the Chinese mainland region between 2025-07-10 00:00:00 and 2025-07-11 00:00:00 UTC+8, sorted in reverse chronological order, in csv file format.
Log match condition: request domain is "www.example.com" and hit status is "hit" or "cache miss".

Input Example

POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: teo.intl.tencentcloudapi.com
Content-Type: application/json
X-TC-Action: CreateLogAnalysisDownloadTask
<Common request parameters>

{
    "ZoneId": "zone-2z55fgysdtmc",
    "Area": "mainland",
    "StartTime": "2025-07-10T00:00:00+08:00",
    "EndTime": "2025-07-11T00:00:00+08:00",
    "LogType": "l7-access-logs",
    "Condition": "${RequestHost} in ['www.example.com'] AND ${EdgeCacheStatus} in ['hit','miss']",
    "Format": "csv",
    "Sort": "desc"
}

Output Example

{
    "Response": {
        "RequestId": "88e4f1a4-ee44-42e9-8aa8-a9b1631ecc5e",
        "TaskId": "task-1a4wdeq2wsda"
    }
}

5. Developer Resources

SDK

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Command Line Interface

Tencent Cloud CLI 3.0

6. Error Code

There is no error code related to the API business logic. For other error codes, please see Common Error Codes.

1. API Description
2. Input Parameters
3. Output Parameters
4. Example
- Example1 Creating a log analytics log download task
5. Developer Resources
- SDK
- Command Line Interface
6. Error Code