Ingesting Metrics with the Push Metrics REST API

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You can use LogicMonitor Push Metrics REST API to programmatically ingest metrics for multiple instances associated with a single resource and DataSource.

The Push Metrics REST API requires LMv1 API Token Authentication.

Request Information

The metric ingestion endpoint is used to push metrics to one or more instances associated with a DataSource and resource. Only one resource and DataSource is supported per request. If this is the first time metrics are being pushed to a resource, this request will result in a new DataSource and optionally a new resource (depending on parameters).

Method	Post
Base URL	https://{ACCOUNTNAME}.logicmonitor.com/rest
Path	metric/ingest
Header	Authorization: LMv1 token
Parameter	(Optional)https://companyxyz.logicmonitor.com/rest/metric/ingest?create=trueIf create=true, a new resource will be created if there is no match for the provided resource IDs. The default value is “false”.
Content-Type	application/json
Specification	{ “resourceName”: “<Resource name>”, //Optional when create flag is not specified “resourceDescription”: “<Resource description>”, “resourceIds” : { //Mandatory “key1” : “value1”, “key2” : “value2”,… //Multi-values accepted }, “resourceProperties”: { “key1” : “value1”, “key2” : “value2”,… //Multi-values accepted } “dataSourceId”: “<DataSource ID>” //Either dataSourceId or dataSource mandatory “dataSource”: “<DataSource Name>” //Either dataSourceId or dataSource mandatory “dataSourceDisplayName”: “<Display Name for the DataSource>” “dataSourceGroup”: “<DataSource Group name>” “instances”:[ { “instanceName”: “<Instance Name>”, //Mandatory “instanceDisplayName”: “<Instance display Name>” “instanceProperties”: { “key1” : “value1”, “key2” : “value2”,… }, “dataPoints”: [ { “dataPointName”: “<Datapoint Name>”, //Mandatory “dataPointDescription”: “<Datapoint Description>”, “dataPointType”: “<Datapoint Metric Type>”, “dataPointDataType”: “<Datapoint Data Type>”, “dataPointAggregationType”: “<Sub-minute aggregation type, avg/sum/none>”, “values”: { //Mandatory, multiple values allowed “<Epoch Time>”: “<Value>”,… } },… //Array of datapoints ] },… //Array of instances ]}

Use the following mandatory and optional fields in your request.

Field Name	Description	Type	Required?	Validations
resourceName	Resource unique name. Only considered when creating a new resource.	String	Required only if the create parameter is set to TRUE (create=true). FALSE is the default.	– 255-character limit – Must be unique – Should not start or end with spaces, tabs, etc – Should not contain line breaks – Characters from A-Z, a-z, and 0-9 allowed as well as colons, hyphens, underscores and full stops – No whitespace allowed
resourceDescription	Resource description. Only considered when creating a new resource.	String	Optional. Defaults to “”.	– 65535-character limit
resourceIds	An array of existing resource properties that will be used to identify the resource. See Managing Resources that Ingest Push Metrics for information on the types of properties that can be used. If no resource is matched and the create parameter is set to TRUE, a new resource is created with these specified resource IDs set on it. If the system.displayname and/or system.hostname property is included as resource IDs, they will be used as host name and display name respectively in the resulting resource.	JSON object	Required	– Takes input as key-value pairs in the form of property name and assigned value (example: “system.displayname” : “mcentos”) – Keys and values are strings – All characters except , ; / * [ ] ? ‘ ” ` ## and newline are allowed -Spaces allowed except at start or end – Keys and values should not contain backslashes (\)Null key and value are not allowed – Keys have 255-character limits; values have 24000-character limits – Case insensitive
resourceProperties	New properties for resource. Updates to existing resource properties are not considered. Depending on the property name, we will convert these properties into system, auto, or custom properties.	JSON object	Optional. Defaults to “”.	– Takes input as key-value pairs in the form of property name and assigned value (Example: “version” : “5.0”) – System properties are not allowed (example: system.xxx)Auto properties are not allowed (example: auto.xxx) – Keys and values are stringsAll characters except , ; / * [ ] ? ‘ ” ` ## and newline are allowed – Spaces allowed except at start or end – Keys and values should not contain backslashes (\) – Null key and value are not allowed – Keys have 255-character limits; values have 24000-character limitsCase insensitive
dataSourceId	DataSource unique ID. Used only to match an existing DataSource. If no existing DataSource matches the provided ID, an error results. If this field is used in combination with the dataSource field, both the ID and name provided must match a single DataSource or an error results.	Integer	Either dataSourceId or dataSource is mandatory.	– 9-digit limit – Only positive whole numbers allowed
dataSource	DataSource unique name. Used to match an existing DataSource. If no existing DataSource matches the name provided here, a new DataSource is created with this name. If this field is used in combination with the dataSourceId field, both the ID and name provided must match a single DataSource or an error is returned.	String	Either dataSourceId or dataSource is mandatory.	– 64-character limit – Must be unique – All characters except , ; / * [ ] ? ‘ ” ` ## and newline are allowed – Spaces allowed except at start or end – Hyphen allowed only at the end; hyphen must be used with at least one other character
dataSourceDisplayName	DataSource display name. Only considered when creating a new DataSource.	String	Optional. Defaults to dataSource.	– 64-character limit – All characters except , ; / * [ ] ? ‘ ” ` ## and newline are allowed – Spaces are allowed except at start or end – Keys and values should not contain backslashes (\) – Hyphen allowed only at the end; hyphen must be used with at least one other character
dataSourceGroup	DataSource group name. Only considered when DataSource does not already belong to a group. Used to organize the DataSource within a DataSource group. If no existing DataSource group matches, a new group is created with this name and the DataSource is organized under the new group.	String	Optional. Defaults to “PushModules”.	– 128-character limit – Only supports characters from A-Z, a-z, 0-9, colon, hyphen, underscore, and whitespace – Values should not be null, empty, or having trailing spaces
instances	An array of DataSource instances.	JSON object	Required
instanceName	Instance name. If no existing instance matches, a new instance is created with this name.	String	Required	– 255-character limit – All characters except , ; / * [ ] ? ‘ ” ` ## and newline are allowed – Spaces allowed except at start or end – Should not contain backslashes (\). – Only supports characters from A-Z, a-z, 0-9, colon, hyphen, underscore, and full stop – No whitespace allowed
instanceDisplayName	Instance display name. Only considered when creating a new instance.	String	Optional. Defaults to {instanceName}.	– 255-character limit – All characters except , ; / * [ ] ? ‘ ” ` ## and newline are allowed – Spaces allowed except at start or end – Should not contain backslashes (\).*<?,;`\\n characters not allowed
instanceProperties	New properties for instance. Updates to existing instance properties are not considered. Depending on the property name, we will convert these properties into system, auto, or custom properties.	JSON object	Optional. Defaults to “”.	– Takes input as key-value pairs in the form of property name and assigned value – System properties are not allowed (example: system.xxx) – Auto properties are not allowed (example: auto.xxx) – Keys and values are stringsAll characters except , ; / * [ ] ? ‘ ” ` ## and newline are allowed – Spaces allowed except at start or end – Keys and values should not contain backslashes (\) – Keys have 255-character limits; values have 24000-character limits – Case insensitive – Keys and values should not be null, empty, or having trailing spaces
dataPointName	Datapoint name. If no existing datapoint matches for specified DataSource, a new datapoint is created with this name.	String	Required	– 128-character limit Characters from A-Z, a-z, and 0-9 only allowed – Should not contain reserved keywords such as COS, SIN, etc.
dataPointDescription	Datapoint description. Only considered when creating a new datapoint.	String	Optional. Defaults to {dataPointName}.	1024-character limit
dataPointType	Metric type as a number in string format. Only considered when creating a new datapoint.	String	Optional. Defaults to “gauge”.	– Only values of “counter”, “derive”, or “guage” accepted – Case insensitive
dataPointAggregationType	The aggregation method, if any, that should be used if data is pushed in sub-minute intervals. Only considered when creating a new datapoint. See the About the Push Metrics REST API section of this guide for more information on datapoint value aggregation intervals.	String	Optional. Defaults to “none”.	– Only values of “none”, “avg”, or “sum” accepted – Case insensitive
values	An array of datapoint values	JSON object	Required	– Takes input as key-value pairs in the form of epoch time and datapoint value. Example: “1584902069” : “10”Only long type values accepted in keys – Only digits accepted in values

Example

The following Python 3 example monitors CPU utilization.

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import time, os, sys
import hmac, hashlib, base64
import requests
import json
import psutil

#--------------------------------------
# Constants - Do not change
#--------------------------------------
resource_path = '/metric/ingest'
headers =  {
	   'Content-Type': 'application/json'
	  }

#---------------------------------------
# Change Values below as per your setup
#---------------------------------------
def get_params():
	# Account info
	# Your account name
	Company = "ABC"
	# User account Access Id for which it must have permissions to manage resources and manage LogicModules 
	AccessId = "6wDEvh73taGMPP43SSmF"
	AccessKey = 'Q)cfY2w8u[G97jkz5^P8{HT)g-uq[6+E8LL%Mb{^'

	url = "https://"+Company+".logicmonitor.com/rest"+ resource_path
	return url, AccessId, AccessKey


#--------------------------------------------
# Function to send metric data to LM Platform
#--------------------------------------------
def send_metrics(timestamp, body):
		url, AccessId, AccessKey  = get_params()
		req_var =  "POST" + str(timestamp) + body +resource_path;
		signature = base64.b64encode(bytes(hmac.new(
                            bytes(AccessKey, 'latin-1'),
                            bytes(req_var, 'latin-1'),
                            digestmod=hashlib.sha256
                        ).hexdigest(), 'latin-1')).decode('latin-1')
		auth = "LMv1 "+AccessId+ ":"+ signature+":"+str(timestamp)
		headers['Authorization'] =  auth
		try:
			response = requests.post(url, verify=True, headers=headers, data=body,  params={"create":'true'})
			if response.status_code != 202:
				print('Failed to send metric. Error:', response.status_code, response.text)
			else:
				print("SUCCESS :",response.text)
		except Exception as e:
			print("Unable to connect. Error: ", e)

#--------------------------------------------
# Prepare REST payload
#--------------------------------------------
def prepare_request_body(metric, timestamp, data_value):
	return json.dumps({
	    "resourceName": metric["device_name"],
	    "resourceIds": {
			"system.displayname": metric["device_name"],
			"system.ips": metric["device_ip"]
	    },
	    "dataSource": metric["data_source"],
	    "dataSourceDisplayName": metric["data_source"],
	    "instances": [
			{
				"instanceName": metric["instance"],
				"instanceDisplayName": metric["instance"],
				"instanceProperties": {
					"version": "1",
				},
				"dataPoints": [
					{
						"dataPointName": metric["data_point"],
						"dataPointType": "GAUGE",
						"dataPointAggregationType": "sum",
						"values": {
							str(timestamp//1000): data_value
						}
					},
		    	]
			},
	    ]
	}).replace("'", '"')


#------------------
#====  MAIN =======
#------------------
if __name__ == "__main__":
	my_metric = {}
	my_metric["device_name"] = os.uname()[1]
	my_metric["device_ip"] = "192.168.1.1"
	my_metric["data_source"] = "CPU"
	my_metric["instance"] = "cpu-1"
	my_metric["data_point"] = "cpu_utilization"
	while True:
		timestamp = int(time.time()*1000)
		data_value = psutil.cpu_percent()

		body = prepare_request_body(my_metric, timestamp, data_value)
		send_metrics(timestamp, body)
		time.sleep(10)

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