# Get assets canister cycles balance

**URL:** <https://forum.dfinity.org/t/get-assets-canister-cycles-balance/8280>\
**Category:** Developers\
**Created:** [November 2, 2021, 9:43am UTC](https://forum.dfinity.org/t/get-assets-canister-cycles-balance/8280 "2021-11-02T09:43:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![domwoe](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.dfinity.org/domwoe/32/5165_2.png) [@domwoe](https://forum.dfinity.org/u/domwoe)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 11:37am UTC](https://forum.dfinity.org/t/get-assets-canister-cycles-balance/8280/4 "2022-09-28T11:37:43Z")

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You need to make a call to the `canister_status` on the management canister with a caller that is listed as a controller of the respective canister.

Here @peterparker shared a snippet of how to do it using agent-js: [How to make IC Management API canister\_status call with @dfinity/agent?](https://forum.dfinity.org/t/how-to-make-ic-management-api-canister-status-call-with-dfinity-agent/7139)

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