Get Datasource Instances

Last updated on 29 June, 2022

You can use LogicMonitor’s REST API to programmatically get instances of a datasource.

Note: As with all of our API calls, authentication is required.

Get a list of datasource instances

HTTP Method: GET

URI: /device/devices/{deviceId}/devicedatasources/{deviceDatasourceId}/instances

Where:

Request Parameters: By default, a list of 50 instances will be returned. You can include sort, filter, fields, size and offset parameters in your request to control what data is included in the response and how it is formatted.

Property

Syntax

Description

Example URI

sort sort={+ or -}property Sorts the response by the property specified in either increasing (+) or decreasing (-) order /device/devices/12/devicedatasources/98/instances?sort=-id
filter filter=property{operator}value Filters the response according to the operator and value specified. Note that you can use * to match on more than one character. You can use the ‘.’ character to filter values within an object (e.g. custom properties), and multiple filters can be separated by a comma.

 

 

Operators include:

  • Greater than or equals: >:
  • Less than or equals: <:
  • Greater than: >
  • Less than: <
  • Does not equal: !:
  • Equals: :
  • Includes: ~
  • Does not include: !~
/device/devices/43/devicedatasources/76/instances?filter=name~prod43*
fields fields={list of properties separated by commas} Filters the response to only include the following fields for each object /device/devices/9/devicedatasources/24/instances?fields=name,id
size size=integer The number of results to display. Max is 1000. /device/devices/87/devicedatasources/54/instances?size=5
offset offset=integer The number of results to offset the displayed results by /device/devices/34/devicedatasources/90/instances?offset=2

Example

The following Python script will return all instances for device 533, device-datasource 10256:

#!/bin/env python

import requests
import json
import hashlib
import base64
import time
import hmac

#Account Info
AccessId ='48v2wRzfK94y53sq5EuF'
AccessKey ='H_D9i(f5~B^U36^K6i42=^nS~e75gy382Bf6{)P+'
Company = 'api'

#Request Info
httpVerb ='GET'
resourcePath = '/device/devices/533/devicedatasources/10256/instances'
queryParams = ''
data = ''

#Construct URL 
url = 'https://'+ Company +'.logicmonitor.com/santaba/rest' + resourcePath +queryParams

#Get current time in milliseconds
epoch = str(int(time.time() * 1000))

#Concatenate Request details
requestVars = httpVerb + epoch + data + resourcePath

#Construct signature
hmac1 = hmac.new(AccessKey.encode(),msg=requestVars.encode(),digestmod=hashlib.sha256).hexdigest()
signature = base64.b64encode(hmac1.encode())

#Construct headers
auth = 'LMv1 ' + AccessId + ':' + signature.decode() + ':' + epoch
headers = {'Content-Type':'application/json','Authorization':auth}

#Make request
response = requests.get(url, data=data, headers=headers)

#Print status and body of response
print('Response Status:',response.status_code)
print('Response Body:',response.content)
Python 3

Get information about a particular datasource instance

HTTP Method: GET

URI: /device/devices/{deviceId}/devicedatasources/{deviceDatasourceId}/instances/{instanceId}

Where:

  • {deviceId} is the device id, which you can get from a GET request to the devices resource
  • {deviceDatasourceId} is the device datasource id, which you can get from a GET request to the device datasources resource
  • {instanceId} is the instance id

Request Parameters: You can include a fields parameter in your request to control what data is included in the response and how it is formatted.

Property

Syntax

Description

Example URI

fields fields={list of properties separated by commas} Filters the response to only include the following fields for each object /device/devices/9/devicedatasources/24/instances/45?fields=name,id

Example

The following Python script will return all instances for device 533, device-datasource 10256, instance 23:

#!/bin/env python

import requests
import json
import hashlib
import base64
import time
import hmac

#Account Info
AccessId ='48v2wRzfK94y53sq5EuF'
AccessKey ='H_D9i(f5~B^U36^K6i42=^nS~e75gy382Bf6{)P+'
Company = 'api'

#Request Info
httpVerb ='GET'
resourcePath = '/device/devices/533/devicedatasources/10256/instances/23'
queryParams = ''
data = ''

#Construct URL 
url = 'https://'+ Company +'.logicmonitor.com/santaba/rest' + resourcePath +queryParams

#Get current time in milliseconds
epoch = str(int(time.time() * 1000))

#Concatenate Request details
requestVars = httpVerb + epoch + data + resourcePath

#Construct signature
hmac1 = hmac.new(AccessKey.encode(),msg=requestVars.encode(),digestmod=hashlib.sha256).hexdigest()
signature = base64.b64encode(hmac1.encode())

#Construct headers
auth = 'LMv1 ' + AccessId + ':' + signature.decode() + ':' + epoch
headers = {'Content-Type':'application/json','Authorization':auth}

#Make request
response = requests.get(url, data=data, headers=headers)

#Print status and body of response
print('Response Status:',response.status_code)
print('Response Body:',response.content)
Python 3
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