Getting Dashboard Details

You can use LogicMonitor REST API v3 to get dashboard details. You must authenticate yourself before making the API request.

Getting List of Dashboards

URI: GET /dashboard/dashboards

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 a comma. Example – `/dashboard/dashboards?fields=id,description`
`size`	Integer	Indicates the number of result to display. A maximum of 1000 results can be requested in a GET request. By default, a list of 50 dashboards is returned if a value is not provided for this parameter. Example – `/dashboard/dashboards?size=10`
`offset`	Integer	Indicates the number of results to offset the displayed results. Example – `/dashboard/dashboards?offset=5`
`filter`	String	The response is filtered according to the operator and specified value that is, `filter=property:value` Use an asterisk () to match more than one character Use a dot (.) character to filter values within an object (example – `custom properties`) Use a comma (,) to separate multiple filters Operators include: Greater than or equals >: Less than or equals <: Greater than > Less than < Equals : Does not equal !: Includes ~ Does not include !~ Example – `/dashboard/dashboards?filter=groupName~Server Dashboard`

The following Node.js script requests all dashboards in the account api.logicmonitor.com.

//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.
var readlineSync = require('readline-sync');
var accessId = readlineSync.question('Enter your AccessId: ', { hideEchoBack: true });
var accessKey = readlineSync.question('Enter your AccessKey: ', { hideEchoBack: true });
var company = 'api'
 
// Request Details
var httpVerb = "GET";
var epoch = (new Date).getTime();
var resourcePath = "/dashboard/dashboards";
 
// Construct signature
var requestVars = httpVerb + epoch + resourcePath;
var crypto = require("crypto");
var hex = crypto.createHmac("sha256", accessKey).update(requestVars).digest("hex");
var signature = new Buffer(hex).toString('base64');
   
// Construct auth header
var auth = "LMv1 " + accessId + ":" + signature + ":" + epoch;
// Configure request options
var request = require('request');
var options =
    {
      "method" : httpVerb,
            "uri" : "https://" + company + ".logicmonitor.com/santaba/rest" + resourcePath,
            "headers": {
                'ContentType' : 'application/json',
                'Authorization': auth
              },
            "qs": {
                   'fields': 'id,name',
                   'filter': 'name~ip'
                  }
    };
 
// Make request
request(options, function (error, response, body) {
        if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
           // Print out the response body
           console.log(body)
         }
     });

Node.js

Getting Details of Specific Dashboard

URI: GET /dashboard/dashboards/{id}

Parameter	Type	Description
`id`	Integer	(Mandatory) The ID of the dashboard whose details you want to get.
`template`	Boolean	If set as `true`, then return the dashboard template either in `json` format or return the `file`. By default, it is set as `false`.
`format`	String	The format is used only if the `template` is set as `true`. Supported formats are `json` or `file`. The default format is `json`.
`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 – `/dashboard/dashboards/id?fields=name,description`

The following Node.js script requests dashboard 34 for account api.logicmonitor.com.

//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.
var readlineSync = require('readline-sync');
var accessId = readlineSync.question('Enter your AccessId: ', { hideEchoBack: true });
var accessKey = readlineSync.question('Enter your AccessKey: ', { hideEchoBack: true });
var company = 'api'
 
// Request Details
var httpVerb = "GET";
var epoch = (new Date).getTime();
var resourcePath = "/dashboard/dashboards/34";
 
// Construct signature
var requestVars = httpVerb + epoch + resourcePath;
var crypto = require("crypto");
var hex = crypto.createHmac("sha256", accessKey).update(requestVars).digest("hex");
var signature = new Buffer(hex).toString('base64');
   
// Construct auth header
var auth = "LMv1 " + accessId + ":" + signature + ":" + epoch;
// Configure request options
var request = require('request');
var options =
    {
      "method" : httpVerb,
            "uri" : "https://" + company + ".logicmonitor.com/santaba/rest" + resourcePath,
            "headers": {
                'ContentType' : 'application/json',
                'Authorization': auth
              },
            "qs": {
                   'fields': 'id,name',
                   'filter': 'name~ip'
                  }
    };
 
// Make request
request(options, function (error, response, body) {
        if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
           // Print out the response body
           console.log(body)
         }
     });

Node.js

Getting List of Widgets based on Dashboard ID

URI: GET /dashboard/dashboards/{id}/widgets

The query parameters fields, size, offset, and filter should also be included while making the GET call /dashboard/dashboards/{id}/widgets. Please refer the table in the section Getting list of Dashboards for details about the query parameters.

An additional parameter id which is specific to GET call /dashboard/dashboards/{id}/widgets has been described in the following table.

Parameter	Type	Description
`id`	Integer	(Mandatory) The ID of the dashboard to get the widget list specific to the dashboard.

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