Getting Cost Optimization Recommendations Details

Last updated - 29 July, 2025

Getting a List of Recommendations

The recommendations list includes details about the cloud provider, associated resources, recommendation specifics, and so on. You can use the following query parameters to control the content and format of the response.

URI: GET /cost-optimization/recommendations

Parameters	Type	Description
`fields`	String	The response is filtered to include only the specified fields for each object. You can provide a list of properties separated by a `comma` (`,`). Example—`/cost-optimization/recommendations?fields=resourceDisplayName,cloudAccountId`
`size`	Integer	Indicates the number of recommendations to return in the response. A maximum of 500 results can be requested in a `GET` call. A default page size of 50 is used if this parameter is not specified. Example—`/cost-optimization/recommendations?size=25`
`offset`	Integer	Indicates the specified number of recommendations to skip before starting to return results. Example—`/cost-optimization/recommendations?offset=10`
`filter`	String	The response is filtered according to the operator and specified value that is, `filter=property:value` Filtering is supported only for the `recommendationCategory` and `recommendationStatus` fields. The `recommendationCategory` field supports only a single value at a time. To get a list of available recommendation categories, use the `GET /cost-optimization/recommendations/categories` endpoint. Only the `Equals` (`:`) operator is available when filtering using the `recommendationStatus` and `recommendationCategory` fields. Example—`recommendationCategory:"Underutilized AWS EC2 instances"` For the `recommendationStatus` field, you can filter by multiple values using the `OR` (`\|`) operator. Example—`recommendationStatus:"SNOOZED"\|"IGNORED"` When combining multiple filters for different fields, only the `AND` relation (represented by a `comma` (`,`) ) between filters can be used. Example—`recommendationStatus:"SNOOZED",recommendationCategory:"Unattached Azure Disks"`

The following example displays how an API request in Python script returns a list of recommendations in the api.logicmonitor.com portal, where the result is filtered based on recommendationStatus set to "ACTIVE".

#!/bin/env python
  
import requests
import json
import hashlib
import base64
import time
import hmac
import getpass
  
#Account Info: LogicMonitor recommends to NEVER hardcode the credentials. Instead, retrieve the values from a secure storage.
#Note: The below is provided for illustration purposes only.
AccessId = getpass.getpass("Enter your AccessId: ")
AccessKey = getpass.getpass("Enter your AccessKey: ")
Company = 'apiAccount' 
  
#Request Info
httpVerb ='GET'
resourcePath = '/cost-optimization/recommendations'
queryParams = '?filter=recommendationStatus:"ACTIVE"&size=5'
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
digest = hmac.new(
        AccessKey.encode('utf-8'),
        msg=requestVars.encode('utf-8'),
        digestmod=hashlib.sha256).hexdigest()
signature = base64.b64encode(digest.encode('utf-8')).decode('utf-8') 
  
#Construct headers
auth = 'LMv1 ' + AccessId + ':' + str(signature) + ':' + epoch
headers = {'Content-Type':'application/json','Authorization':auth,'X-Version':'3'}
  
#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)

The following example displays how an API request in Python script returns a list of recommendations in the api.logicmonitor.com portal, where the result is filtered based on the resourceDisplayName and cloudAccountId fields and recommendationStatus set to ACTIVE.

#!/bin/env python
  
import requests
import json
import hashlib
import base64
import time
import hmac
import getpass
  
#Account Info: LogicMonitor recommends to NEVER hardcode the credentials. Instead, retrieve the values from a secure storage.
#Note: The below is provided for illustration purposes only.
AccessId = getpass.getpass("Enter your AccessId: ")
AccessKey = getpass.getpass("Enter your AccessKey: ")
Company = 'apiAccount' 
  
#Request Info
httpVerb ='GET'
resourcePath = '/cost-optimization/recommendations'
queryParams = '?fields=resourceDisplayName,cloudAccountId&filter=recommendationStatus:"ACTIVE"&size=3&offset=1'
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
digest = hmac.new(
        AccessKey.encode('utf-8'),
        msg=requestVars.encode('utf-8'),
        digestmod=hashlib.sha256).hexdigest()
signature = base64.b64encode(digest.encode('utf-8')).decode('utf-8') 
  
#Construct headers
auth = 'LMv1 ' + AccessId + ':' + str(signature) + ':' + epoch
headers = {'Content-Type':'application/json','Authorization':auth,'X-Version':'3'}
  
#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)

Getting Details of a Specific Recommendation

You can use the following query parameters to control the content and format of the response.

URI: GET /cost-optimization/recommendations/{id}

Parameters	Type	Description
`id`	String	(Mandatory) An alphanumeric ID of the recommendation. It is delimited with hyphens (`-`) and written in the sequence: the recommendation’s database ID`-`the associated resource ID`-`the recommendation type. The ID corresponds with the ID returned by the `id` field in the `GET` `/cost-optimization/recommendations` endpoint. Example—`/cost-optimization/id=123-456-EBS_UNATTACHED`
`fields`	String	The response is filtered to include only the specified fields for each object. You can provide a list of properties separated by a `comma` (`,`). Example—`/cost-optimization/recommendations?fields=resourceDisplayName,cloudAccountId`

The following example displays how an API request in Python script returns details of a recommendation with id=12041-3054082-AZURE_DISK_UNATTACHED in the api.logicmonitor.com portal.

#!/bin/env python
  
import requests
import json
import hashlib
import base64
import time
import hmac
import getpass
  
#Account Info: LogicMonitor recommends to NEVER hardcode the credentials. Instead, retrieve the values from a secure storage.
#Note: The below is provided for illustration purposes only.
AccessId = getpass.getpass("Enter your AccessId: ")
AccessKey = getpass.getpass("Enter your AccessKey: ")
Company = 'apiAccount' 
  
#Request Info
httpVerb ='GET'
resourcePath = '/cost-optimization/recommendations/12041-3054082-AZURE_DISK_UNATTACHED'
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
digest = hmac.new(
        AccessKey.encode('utf-8'),
        msg=requestVars.encode('utf-8'),
        digestmod=hashlib.sha256).hexdigest()
signature = base64.b64encode(digest.encode('utf-8')).decode('utf-8') 
  
#Construct headers
auth = 'LMv1 ' + AccessId + ':' + str(signature) + ':' + epoch
headers = {'Content-Type':'application/json','Authorization':auth,'X-Version':'3'}
  
#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)

Getting a List of Recommendations Categories

You can use this API endpoint to get a static list of currently available recommendation categories offered by LogicMonitor. You can use the following query parameters to control the content and format of the response.

URI: GET /cost-optimization/recommendations/categories

Parameter	Type	Description
`fields`	String	The response is filtered to include only the specified fields for each object. You can provide a list of properties separated by `comma` (`,`). Example—`/cost-optimization/recommendations/categories?fields=Name,description`
`size`	Integer	Indicates the number of results to display. A maximum of 500 results can be requested in a `GET` call. A default page size of 50 is used if a value is not specified. Example—`/cost-optimization/recommendations/categories?size=5`
`offset`	Integer	Indicates the specified number of categories to skip before starting to return results. Example—`/cost-optimization/recommendations/categories?offset=2`
`filter`	String	The response is filtered according to the operator and specified value that is, `filter=property:value` Example—`/cost-optimization/recommendations/categories?filter=description~"AWS"`

The following example displays how an API request in Python script returns a list of all recommendation categories in the api.logicmonitor.com portal.

#!/bin/env python
  
import requests
import json
import hashlib
import base64
import time
import hmac
import getpass
  
#Account Info: LogicMonitor recommends to NEVER hardcode the credentials. Instead, retrieve the values from a secure storage.
#Note: The below is provided for illustration purposes only.
AccessId = getpass.getpass("Enter your AccessId: ")
AccessKey = getpass.getpass("Enter your AccessKey: ")
Company = 'apiAccount' 
  
#Request Info
httpVerb ='GET'
resourcePath = '/cost-optimization/recommendations/categories'
queryParams = '?filter=description~"AWS"'
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
digest = hmac.new(
        AccessKey.encode('utf-8'),
        msg=requestVars.encode('utf-8'),
        digestmod=hashlib.sha256).hexdigest()
signature = base64.b64encode(digest.encode('utf-8')).decode('utf-8') 
  
#Construct headers
auth = 'LMv1 ' + AccessId + ':' + str(signature) + ':' + epoch
headers = {'Content-Type':'application/json','Authorization':auth,'X-Version':'3'}
  
#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)

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