Best Practices for Migrating to LogicMonitor v3 SDK

In this article we have provided best practices and guidelines to migrate from LogicMonitor v1 and v2 of Python SDK to the latest v3 SDK. New user can also refer this article to install LogicMonitor v3 SDK.

Prerequisite

You must have Python version 3.7 or above installed on your machine.

Identifying the Current SDK Version

To check the current version of SDK installed on your machine, in the command prompt run the following:

pip show logicmonitor-sdk

If you have v2, you will see the following result:

Name: logicmonitor-sdk

Version: 2.0.163 (0 or 1 or 2.0.buildNumber)

Summary: LogicMonitor REST API

Home-page: https://github.com/logicmonitor/lm-sdk-python

Author: UNKNOWN

Author-email: UNKNOWN

License: UNKNOWN

Location: Path where the existing SDK is located in your machine. 

Requires: six, python-dateutil, urllib3, certifi

Required-by: 

If the SDK is not installed and you run the pip command, you will see the following result: 

WARNING: Package(s) not found: logicmonitor_sdk

Uninstalling the Older SDK Version

If the SDK version is less than 3.0.172 (for example, 2.0.163), then uninstall the existing SDK. To do so, in the command prompt run the following:

pip uninstall logicmonitor_sdk

In the output you can see that the SDK has been uninstalled. After successfully uninstalling the older SDK version, the following message is displayed:

Successfully uninstalled logicmonitor-sdk-2.0.163

Installing LogicMonitor v3 SDK

If the SDK package is not present or if you have uninstalled the older SDK version, then install the v3 SDK package. To do so, in the command prompt run the following:

pip3 install "logicmonitor-sdk>=3.0"

Alternatively, you can also run the following:

pip3 install logicmonitor-sdk

In the output you can observe that the v3 SDK has been installed. After successfully installing v3 SDK, the following message is displayed:

Successfully installed logicmonitor-sdk-3.0.172

Alternate Command to Migrate to LogicMonitor v3 SDK

To automatically uninstall the older SDK version on your machine and then install the new v3 SDK, in the command prompt run the following:

pip3 install --upgrade "logicmonitor-sdk>=3.0"

Alternatively, you can also run the following:

pip3 install --upgrade logicmonitor-sdk

v3 SDK Samples

You can access v3 SDK samples here: https://www.logicmonitor.com/support-files/rest-api-developers-guide/sdks/docs/lm-sdkv3-docs.html