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# /show/datasource

```
URL: http://<db.host>:<db.port>/show/datasource
```

Shows information about a specified
[data source](../../concepts/data_sources/) or all data sources.

## Input Parameter Description

<ParamField body="name" type="string">
  Name of the data source for which to retrieve information. The name must refer to a currently existing data source. If '\*' is specified, information about all data sources will be returned.
</ParamField>

<ParamField body="options" type="map of string to strings">
  Optional parameters.

  The default value is an empty map ( \{} ).
</ParamField>

## Output Parameter Description

The Kinetica server embeds the endpoint response inside a standard response structure which contains status information and the actual response to the query.  Here is a description of the various fields of the wrapper:

<ResponseField name="status" type="String">
  'OK' or 'ERROR'
</ResponseField>

<ResponseField name="message" type="String">
  Empty if success or an error message
</ResponseField>

<ResponseField name="data_type" type="String">
  'show\_datasource\_response' or 'none' in case of an error
</ResponseField>

<ResponseField name="data" type="String">
  Empty string
</ResponseField>

<ResponseField name="data_str" type="JSON or String">
  This embedded JSON represents the result of the /show/datasource endpoint:

  <Expandable title="data_str">
    <ResponseField name="datasource_names" type="array of strings">
      The data source names.
    </ResponseField>

    <ResponseField name="storage_provider_types" type="array of strings">
      The storage provider type of the data sources named in output parameter *datasource\_names*.

      * **hdfs**: Apache Hadoop Distributed File System.
      * **s3**: Amazon S3 bucket.
    </ResponseField>

    <ResponseField name="additional_info" type="array of maps of string to strings">
      Additional information about the respective data sources in output parameter *datasource\_names*.

      <Expandable title="additional_info">
        <ResponseField name="location">
          Location of the remote storage in 'storage\_provider\_type://\[storage\_path\[:storage\_port]]' format.
        </ResponseField>

        <ResponseField name="s3_bucket_name">
          Name of the Amazon S3 bucket used as the data source.
        </ResponseField>

        <ResponseField name="s3_region">
          Name of the Amazon S3 region where the bucket is located.
        </ResponseField>

        <ResponseField name="hdfs_kerberos_keytab">
          Kerberos key for the given HDFS user.
        </ResponseField>

        <ResponseField name="user_name">
          Name of the remote system user.
        </ResponseField>
      </Expandable>
    </ResponseField>

    <ResponseField name="info" type="map of string to strings">
      Additional information.
    </ResponseField>
  </Expandable>

  Empty string in case of an error.
</ResponseField>