Ansible Integration

The Official LogicMonitor Ansible integration is a REST API-based integration which will enable repeatable installation and eliminate false alarms.

Repeatable Installation. As Ansible provisions devices and deploys software, the LogicMonitor is kept in sync with the changes in the infrastructure it monitors. This ensures that no services are deployed without the needed monitoring, and the monitoring automatically adapts as systems or application environments are promoted from QA to staging to production. The LogicMonitor Ansible integration makes provisioning new resources more efficient and supports updating Collectors and configuring the use of Auto-Balanced Collector Groups.

Eliminate False Alarms. Playbooks for deploying new versions of software can control LogicMonitor’s alert routing by initiating scheduled downtime before changes are made. LogicMonitor will continue to monitor the status of all devices but will not escalate detected alerts during the scheduled downtime, preventing alert overload. Controlling this through Ansible ensures repeatability, simplifies the process and reduces manual operations. Ansible also enables you to do rolling updates across your application infrastructure, turning off monitoring only for the servers currently being operated on.

Prerequisites

• Ansible version 2.10 or later.
• Python version 2.7 or later.
• Python requests module version 2.24.0 or later.
• An existing LogicMonitor account.
• LogicMonitor API tokens for authentication.

Installation

You can install the LogicMonitor Collection from Ansible Galaxy, with the ansible-galaxy CLI:

ansible-galaxy collection install logicmonitor.integration

You can also include the integration in a requirements.yml file, using the format:

collections:
  - name: logicmonitor.integration

The Installation command is then:

ansible-galaxy collection install -r requirements.yml

Required Python libraries

The LogicMonitor Collection requires Python requests module version 2.24.0 or later. Python module dependencies are not installed by ansible-galaxy. You can manually install it using pip:

pip install requests

or:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Configuration

Playbooks

To use a module from the LogicMonitor Collection, reference the full namespace, collection name, and module name that you want to use:

- name: Using LogicMonitor Collection
  hosts: localhost
  tasks:
    - logicmonitor.integration.lm_collector:
        action: sdt
        company: lm
        access_id: "id123"
        access_key: "key123"
        description: localhost

Or you can add the full namespace and collection name in the collections element:

- name: Using LogicMonitor Collection
  hosts: localhost
  collections:
    - logicmonitor.integration
  tasks:
    - lm_collector:
        action: sdt
        company: lm
        access_id: "id123"
        access_key: "key123"
        description: localhost

Modules

Playbook Execution

After the Ansible Collection is properly installed and configured, you can execute playbooks. For example, to execute a playbook called example.yml with the following command (assuming example.yml is in the current working directory):

ansible-playbook example.yml

You can append -vvv to a playbook execution command to view detailed logs.