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Add Websites

Last updated - 23 July, 2025

You can use LogicMonitor’s REST API to programmatically add new ping checks and web checks to your LogicMonitor account.

Add a Website

Add a new ping or web check

HTTP Method:POST

URI: /service/services

Request Parameters:You can POST the following properties for a new website

Property

Description

Required?

Values

Type
name The name of the website Yes Service names are restricted to numbers, letters, and – and _ symbols String
type The type of the website Yes ping | webservice String
isInternal Whether or not the website is internal No. true | false. Defaults to false. Boolean
description The description of the website No This value defaults to a blank String String
serviceFolderId The Id of the folder that the website is in No This value defaults to 1 Integer
stopMonitoring If this value is true, monitoring is disabled for the website. Note that if monitoring is disabled then alerting will also be disabled for the website. No true | false. This value defaults to false Boolean
disableAlerting If this value is true, alerting is disabled for the website. Note that alerting will be disabled by default if monitoring is disabled for the website. No true | false. This value defaults to false Boolean
individualSmAlertEnable Indicates whether an alert will be triggered if the website fails a check from an individual test location. No true | false. This value defaults to false Boolean
individualAlertLevel The level of alert to trigger if the website fails a check from an individual test location No warn | error | critical. This value defaults to warn String
overallAlertLevel The level of alert that is triggered if the website fails the number of check specified by transition from the test locations specified by globalSmAlertCond No warn | error | critical. This value defaults to warn String
pollingInterval How often the service is checked, in units of minutes. No 1-10 minutes. The value defaults to 5 Integer
transition The number of checks that must fail before an alert is triggered No 1-10, 30, 60. This value defaults to 0 Integer
testLocation The test locations from which the service should be monitored if the website is not internal, OR the Collectors that should monitor the website if the website is internal. No Collectors should be specified like this: “{\”collectorIds\”:[12,67]}”. Site Monitor locations include:

 

  • 0: Overall
  • 1: US – LA
  • 2: US – DC
  • 3: US – SF
  • 4: Europe – Dublin
  • 5: Asia – Singapore
  • 6: Australia – Sydney

You can specify one or more of these locations like this: “{\”smgIds\”:[1,2,3]}”
*Note that the inner string must be encoded*

The default value is “{\”all\”:true}”

 JSON Object
globalSmAlertCond The number of locations that the number of checks specified by transition must fail at in order to trigger an alert of severity overallAlertLevel. No

 

  • 0: all
  • 1: half
  • 2: more than one
  • 3: any

 

The default value is 0

 

 Integer
useDefaultLocationSetting Whether or not the website default locations should be used. No true | false. Defaults to false Boolean
useDefaultAlertSetting Whether or not the website default settings should be used. No true | false. Defaults to false Boolean
serviceProperties The properties associated with the website No – JSON Object

For new Ping Services the following additional POST properties apply:

Property

Description

Required?

Values

Type
count The number of packets to send in the request No This value defaults to 5 Integer
host The hostname or IP  Yes – String
percentPktsNotReceiveInTime The percentage of packets that should be returned in the time period specified by timeoutInMSPktsNotReceive for each ping check. No Defaults to 80 Integer
timeoutInMSPktsNotReceive The time period that the percentage of packets specified by percentPktsNotReceiveInTime must be returned in for each ping check. No Defaults to 500 Integer

For new Web Services the following additional POST properties apply:

Property

Description

Required?

Values

Type
steps An object comprising one or more steps, see the table below for the properties included in each step Yes See table below for more detail JSON Object
ignoreSSL Whether or not SSL should be ignored for each check No true | false. Defaults to false Boolean
pageLoadAlertTimeInMS The time in milliseconds that the page must load within for each step to avoid triggering an alert. No Defaults to 30000 Integer

The JSON object “steps” comprises one or more steps, where each step has the following properties:

Property

Description

Required

Values

Type
HTTPHeaders The headers included in the HTTP request to the web service No Any valid HTTP Header. E.g. “HTTPHeaders”:”Content-Type: application/json”. This value defaults to an empty string String
statusCode The expected response status code for the HTTP request made to the web service. Multiple status codes may be separated by commas No This value defaults to a blank String String
followRedirection If this value is true, the HTTP request to the web service will follow any redirects in place No true | false. This value defaults to false Boolean
matchType The type of interpretation method used to search for the keyword in the response No
  • plain: plain text
  • regular: regular expression
  • wildcard: glob expression

This value defaults to plain

 String
keyword A string keyword that must be present in the response to the HTTP request made to the web service No This value defaults to a blank String String
HTTPBody The data in the body of the HTTP request to the web service No This value defaults to an empty string String
HTTPMethod The HTTP request method used in the request to the web service No GET | HEAD | POST. This value defaults to GET String
postDataEditType The format of the POST data No raw | json | xml | x-www-form-urlencoded String
url The URL for the step. This should be the full url (i.e. domain + path) Yes – String
fullpageLoad If this value is true then the HTTP request will wait for all page elements to load No true | false. This value defaults to false Boolean
requireAuth If this value is true then Authorization is required for the HTTP request to the web service No true | false. This value defaults to false Boolean
auth The authentication information required if requireAuth=true No The following parameters must be specified in this object:

 

  • type: common | basic | ntlm
  • userName
  • password
  • domain (only for type=ntlm)

e.g. “auth”:{“type”:”common”,”userName”:”test”,”password”:”example”}

 JSON Object
invertMatch If this value is true, the keyword should not be present in the response No true | false. This value defaults to false. Boolean
timeout The number of seconds that the page must load within before the request should time out No 1 | 5 | 15 | 30 | 60 | 120 | 180. This value defaults to 30. Integer
HTTPVersion The HTTP version used in the request to the web service No 1.0 | 1.1. This value defaults to 1.1 String
schema The schema or protocol associated with the URL No http | https. This value defaults to http String
description The description associated with the step No Defaults to a blank string String
path The path associated with the step, where the path is the URL component after the domain No This value will be inferred from the url String
enable true | false. Whether or not the step is enabled No Defaults to true Boolean

For examples of these resource properties, see this page.

Example 1: Add a Ping Service

The following Python request adds a Ping Service:

#!/bin/env python

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

#Account Info
AccessId ='ACCESS_ID'
AccessKey ='ACCESS_KEY'
Company = 'COMPANY_NAME'

#Request Info
httpVerb ='POST'
resourcePath = '/service/services'
queryParams = ''
data='{"name":"newPingService","type":"ping","stopMonitoring":false,"disableAlerting":false,"pollingInterval":3,"host":"www.google.com"}'

#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.post(url, data=data, headers=headers)

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

Example 2: Add a Web Service

The following Python request adds a web service:

#!/bin/env python

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

#Account Info
AccessId ='ACCESS_ID'
AccessKey ='ACCESS_KEY'
Company = 'COMPANY_NAME'

#Request Info
httpVerb ='POST'
resourcePath = '/service/services'
queryParams = ''
data='{"serviceFolderId":"1","type":"webservice","testLocation":"{\\"smgIds\\":[2, 3, 4]}","name":"ProdWebCheck","disableAlerting":true,"pollingInterval":5,"steps":[{"HTTPHeaders":"Content-Type:application/json","followRedirection":false,"keyword":"breaking","schema":"http","url":"www.google.com/#q=news","timeout":120},{"keyword":"california","url":"www.google.com/#q=states","invertMatch":true}]}'

#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.post(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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