name : get-sampling-targets.rst **To request a sampling quota** The following ``get-sampling-targets`` example requests a sampling quota for rules that the service is using to sample requests. The response from AWS X-Ray includes a quota that can be used instead of borrowing from the reservoir. :: aws xray get-sampling-targets \ --sampling-statistics-documents '[ { "RuleName": "base-scorekeep", "ClientID": "ABCDEF1234567890ABCDEF10", "Timestamp": "2018-07-07T00:20:06, "RequestCount": 110, "SampledCount": 20, "BorrowCount": 10 }, { "RuleName": "polling-scorekeep", 31, "BorrowCount": 0 } ]' Output:: { "SamplingTargetDocuments": [ { "RuleName": "base-scorekeep", "FixedRate": 0.1, "ReservoirQuota": 2, "ReservoirQuotaTTL": 1530923107.0, "Interval": 10 }, { "RuleName": "polling-scorekeep", "FixedRate": 0.003, "ReservoirQuota": 0, "ReservoirQuotaTTL": 1530923107.0, "Interval": 10 } ], "LastRuleModification": 1530920505.0, "UnprocessedStatistics": [] } For more information, see `Using Sampling Rules with the X-Ray API <https://docs.aws.amazon.com/en_pv/xray/latest/devguide/xray-api-sampling.html>`__ in the *AWS X-Ray Developer Guide*.