Usage Records

The UsageRecords REST resource provides a simple API to retrieve usage made by your Restcomm account during any time period and by any usage category. This makes it easy to build reporting and analytics tools for your application. UsageRecords used in combination with Subaccounts created for each of your end-users make it possible to build recurring usage-based billing systems on top of Restcomm's API with just a few simple API calls.

You can also set up usage triggers to notify your application when a particular category of usage reaches a threshold on a daily, monthly, yearly, or all-time basis. Triggers can help determine if your users have reached a cap on usage, or if your application may have runaway requests. For more on usage triggers, see the Usage Triggers documentation.

UsageRecords List Resource

Resource URI

/2012-04-24/Accounts/{AccountSid}/Usage/Records

Resource Properties

This resource and its subresources always return a list of UsageRecords. Each UsageRecord is represented by the following properties:

Property Description

Property	Description
Category	The category of usage. See Usage Categories below.
Description	A human-readable description of the usage category.
AccountSid	The Account that accrued the usage.
StartDate	The first date for which usage is included in this UsageRecord, formatted as YYYY-MM-DD. All dates are in GMT.
EndDate	The last date for which usage is included in this UsageRecord, formatted as YYYY-MM-DD. All dates are in GMT.
Usage	The amount of usage (e.g. the number of call minutes). This is frequently the same as `Count`, but may be different for certain usage categories like calls, where `Count` represents the number of calls and `Usage` represents the number of minutes.
UsageUnit	The units in which `Usage` is measured. For example `minutes` for calls, `messages` for SMS.
Count	The number of usage events (e.g. the number of calls).
CountUnit	The units in which `Count` is measured. For example `calls` for calls, `messages` for SMS.
Price	The total price of the usage, in the currency associated with the account.
PriceUnit	The currency in which `Price` is measured, in ISO 4127 format (e.g. `usd`, `eur`, `jpy`).
Uri	The URI that returns only this UsageRecord, relative to `https://Restcomm_IP_ADDRESS`
SubresourceUris	Subresource Uris for this UsageRecord. See List Subresources.

Usage, Count, and Price

Each UsageRecord contains three amounts: Usage, Count, and Price. Usage is the primary way usage is measured for that category: minutes for calls, messages for SMS, etc. Count is the number of usage events: calls for calls, etc. And Price is the price of the usage in the currency associated with the account. Each UsageRecord also has fields that show the units in which each amount is measured: Usage is measured in units of UsageUnit, for instance. These fields make it easy to build usage dashboards. For example, you can always display human-readable strings describing usage with "`$Usagz`

Usage Categories

A UsageRecord’s Category defines the type of usage it represents. The full list of all categories is here, but you’ll usually focus on just a few common categories:

Category Description

Category	Description
CALLS	All voice calls. `Count` is the number of calls and `Usage` is the number of minutes.
SMS	All SMS messages. `Count` and `Usage` are both the number of messages sent.
PHONENUMBERS	All phone numbers owned by the account.
RECORDINGS	Recordings of voice calls. `Count` is the number of recordings and `Usage` is the number of recorded minutes. Note that Restcomm doesn’t charge for making recordings (only storing them long term) so `Price` will always be 0.

CALLS

All voice calls. Count is the number of calls and Usage is the number of minutes.

SMS

All SMS messages. Count and Usage are both the number of messages sent.

PHONENUMBERS

All phone numbers owned by the account.

RECORDINGS

Recordings of voice calls. Count is the number of recordings and Usage is the number of recorded minutes. Note that Restcomm doesn’t charge for making recordings (only storing them long term) so Price will always be 0.

HTTP GET

Returns UsageRecords for all usage categories. The list includes paging information.

List Filters

By default, the UsageRecords resource will return one UsageRecord for each Category, representing all usage accrued all-time for the account. You can filter the usage Category or change the date-range over which usage is counted using optional GET query parameters. Note that query parameters are case-sensitive:

Parameter Description

Parameter	Description
Category	Only include usage of this usage category.
StartDate	Only include usage that has occurred on or after this date. Format is YYYY-MM-DD. All dates are in GMT. As a convenience, you can also specify offsets to today. For example, `StartDate=-30days` will make `StartDate` be 30 days before today.
EndDate	Only include usage that has occurred on or before this date. Format is YYYY-MM-DD. All dates are in GMT. As a convenience, you can also specify offsets to today. For example, `EndDate=+30days` will make `EndDate` be 30 days from today.

List Subresources

The main UsageRecords list resource supports a variety of convenience subresources. In general these take the form:

/2012-04-24/Accounts/\{AccountSid}/Usage/Records/{Subresource}

Supported subresources are:

Subresource	Description
Daily	Return multiple UsageRecords for each usage category, each representing usage over a daily time-interval.
Monthly	Return multiple UsageRecords for each usage category, each representing usage over a monthly time-interval.
Yearly	Return multple UsageRecords for each usage category, each representing usage over a yearly time-interval.
AllTime	Return a single UsageRecord for each usage category, each representing usage over the date-range specified. This is the same as the root /Usage/Records.
Today	Return a single UsageRecord per usage category, for today’s usage only.
Yesterday	Return a single UsageRecord per usage category, for yesterday’s usage only.
ThisMonth	Return a single UsageRecord per usage category, for this month’s usage only.
LastMonth	Return a single UsageRecord per usage category, for last month’s usage only.

Subresource

Description

Daily

Return multiple UsageRecords for each usage category, each representing usage over a daily time-interval.

Monthly

Return multiple UsageRecords for each usage category, each representing usage over a monthly time-interval.

Yearly

Return multple UsageRecords for each usage category, each representing usage over a yearly time-interval.

AllTime

Return a single UsageRecord for each usage category, each representing usage over the date-range specified. This is the same as the root /Usage/Records.

Today

Return a single UsageRecord per usage category, for today’s usage only.

Yesterday

Return a single UsageRecord per usage category, for yesterday’s usage only.

ThisMonth

Return a single UsageRecord per usage category, for this month’s usage only.

LastMonth

Return a single UsageRecord per usage category, for last month’s usage only.

These convenience subresources can be used to draw a graph of daily calls, display dashboards of monthly usage across all usage categories, or build a simple usage-based billing system based on last month’s usage totals. All subresources support the same list filters as the root UsageCounters resource.

HTTP POST

Not supported.

HTTP PUT

Not supported.

HTTP DELETE

Not supported.

Full List of All Usage Categories

The full list of supported usage categories are:

Category Description

Category	Description
CALLS	All voice calls, inbound & outbound. `Count` is the number of calls and `Usage` is the number of minutes.
CALLS-INBOUND	All inbound voice calls, to both toll-free and local numbers.
CALLS-INBOUND-LOCAL	All inbound voice calls to local numbers.
CALLS-INBOUND-TOLLFREE	All inbound voice calls to toll-free numbers.
CALLS-OUTBOUND	All outbound voice calls.
CALLS-CLIENT	All Restcomm Client voice calls.
CALLS-SIP	All SIP calls.
SMS	All SMS messages, both inbound and outbound. `Count` and `Usage` are both the number of messages sent.
SMS-INBOUND	All inbound SMS messages, to both short-codes and long-codes.
SMS-INBOUND-SHORTCODE	All inbound SMS messages to short-codes.
SMS-INBOUND-LONGCODE	All inbound SMS messages to long-codes.
SMS-OUTBOUND	All outbound SMS messages, from both short-codes and long-codes.
SMS-OUTBOUND-SHORTCODE	All outbound SMS messages from short-codes.
SMS-OUTBOUND-LONGCODE	All outbound SMS messages from long-codes.
PHONENUMBERS	All phone numbers owned by the account, toll-free and local.
PHONENUMBERS-TOLLFREE	All toll-free phone numbers owned by the account.
PHONENUMBERS-LOCAL	All local phone numbers owned by the account.
RECORDINGS	Recordings of voice calls. `Count` is the number of recordings and `Usage` is the number of recorded minutes. Note that Restcomm doesn’t charge for making recordings (only storing them long term) so `Price` will always be 0.
RECORDINGSTORAGE	Amount of storage used by call recordings stored for the account. `Count` is the number of stored recordings, `Usage` is the number of stored recorded minutes, and `Price` is the price of storing the recordings.

CALLS

All voice calls, inbound & outbound. Count is the number of calls and Usage is the number of minutes.

CALLS-INBOUND

All inbound voice calls, to both toll-free and local numbers.

CALLS-INBOUND-LOCAL

All inbound voice calls to local numbers.

CALLS-INBOUND-TOLLFREE

All inbound voice calls to toll-free numbers.

CALLS-OUTBOUND

All outbound voice calls.

CALLS-CLIENT

All Restcomm Client voice calls.

CALLS-SIP

All SIP calls.

SMS

All SMS messages, both inbound and outbound. Count and Usage are both the number of messages sent.

SMS-INBOUND

All inbound SMS messages, to both short-codes and long-codes.

SMS-INBOUND-SHORTCODE

All inbound SMS messages to short-codes.

SMS-INBOUND-LONGCODE

All inbound SMS messages to long-codes.

SMS-OUTBOUND

All outbound SMS messages, from both short-codes and long-codes.

SMS-OUTBOUND-SHORTCODE

All outbound SMS messages from short-codes.

SMS-OUTBOUND-LONGCODE

All outbound SMS messages from long-codes.

PHONENUMBERS

All phone numbers owned by the account, toll-free and local.

PHONENUMBERS-TOLLFREE

All toll-free phone numbers owned by the account.

PHONENUMBERS-LOCAL

All local phone numbers owned by the account.

RECORDINGS

RECORDINGSTORAGE

Amount of storage used by call recordings stored for the account. Count is the number of stored recordings, Usage is the number of stored recorded minutes, and Price is the price of storing the recordings.

UsageRecords Instance Resource

You cannot make requests directly to a UsageRecord resource. Instead, make a request to the UsageRecords list resource or one of its

Example of Getting Daily Calls Stats

curl -X GET https://mycompany.restcomm.com/restcomm/2012-04-24/"Accounts/ACCOUNT_SID/Usage/Records/Daily.xml \
   -u "YourAccountSid:YourAuthToken"

const request = require('request');

// Provide your Account Sid and Auth Token from your Console Account page
const ACCOUNT_SID = 'my_ACCOUNT_SID';
const AUTH_TOKEN = 'my_AUTH_TOKEN';

request({
      method: 'GET',
      url: 'https://mycompany.restcomm.com/restcomm/2012-04-24/"Accounts/' + ACCOUNT_SID + '/Usage/Records/Daily.xml',
      auth: { 'user': ACCOUNT_SID, 'pass': AUTH_TOKEN },
   },
   function (error, response, body) {
      // Add your business logic below; status can be found at 'response.statusCode' and response body at 'body'
      ...
   }
);

from http.client import HTTPSConnection
from base64 import b64encode

# Provide your Account Sid and Auth Token from your Console Account page
ACCOUNT_SID = 'my_ACCOUNT_SID'
AUTH_TOKEN = 'my_AUTH_TOKEN'

userAndPass = b64encode(bytes(ACCOUNT_SID + ':' + AUTH_TOKEN, 'utf-8')).decode("ascii")
headers = { 'Authorization' : 'Basic %s' %  userAndPass }

conn = HTTPSConnection('mycompany.restcomm.com')
conn.request("GET", '/restcomm/2012-04-24/"Accounts/' + ACCOUNT_SID + '/Usage/Records/Daily.xml',
      headers=headers)
res = conn.getresponse()

// Add your business logic below; status can be found at 'res.status', reason at 'res.reason' and response body can be retrieved with res.read()
...

import java.net.URL;
import javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.Base64;

public class JavaSampleClass {
   // Provide your Account Sid and Auth Token from your Console Account page
   public static final String ACCOUNT_SID = "my_ACCOUNT_SID";
   public static final String AUTH_TOKEN = "my_AUTH_TOKEN";


   public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
      String userAndPass = ACCOUNT_SID + ':' + AUTH_TOKEN;
      String encoded = Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(userAndPass.getBytes());

      URL url = new URL("https://mycompany.restcomm.com/restcomm/2012-04-24/"Accounts/" + ACCOUNT_SID + "/Usage/Records/Daily.xml");
      HttpsURLConnection conn = (HttpsURLConnection)url.openConnection();
      conn.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "Basic " + encoded);
      conn.setRequestMethod("GET");

      // Add your business logic below; response code can be obtained from 'conn.getResponseCode()' and input stream from 'conn.getInputStream()'
      ...
  }
}

<RestcommResponse>
  <UsageRecords>
    <UsageRecord>
      <Category>calls</Category>
      <Description>Total Calls</Description>
      <AccountSid>ACae6e420f425248d6a26948c17a9e2acf</AccountSid>
      <StartDate>2016-01-01</StartDate>
      <EndDate>2016-01-01</EndDate>
      <Usage>4</Usage>
      <UsageUnit>minutes</UsageUnit>
      <Count>2</Count>
      <CountUnit>calls</CountUnit>
      <Price>0.0</Price>
      <PriceUnit>USD</PriceUnit>
      <Uri>/todo</Uri>
    </UsageRecord>
    <UsageRecord>
      <Category>calls</Category>
      <Description>Total Calls</Description>
      <AccountSid>ACae6e420f425248d6a26948c17a9e2acf</AccountSid>
      <StartDate>2016-01-04</StartDate>
      <EndDate>2016-01-04</EndDate>
      <Usage>0</Usage>
      <UsageUnit>minutes</UsageUnit>
      <Count>1</Count>
      <CountUnit>calls</CountUnit>
      <Price>0.0</Price>
      <PriceUnit>USD</PriceUnit>
      <Uri>/todo</Uri>
    </UsageRecord>
  </UsageRecords>