LogicMonitor Portal Metrics

[Kerry DeVilbiss 0]

LogicMonitor Portal Metrics is a DataSource that queries the API of a specified LogicMonitor portal for overall statistics such as device, collector, and alert counts. It was originally written by fellow Sales Engineer @Jake Cohen, and updated by Monitoring Engineer @Julio Martinez (credit where credit is due!) It can be useful for tracking the activity within an account over time.

The recommended/ required method for implementing the DataSource is as follows:

1. Download the LogicMonitor Portal Metrics DataSource from the LogicMonitor Repository using locator code J7RGZY.
2. Add a new device to your account in Expert Mode - use 'logicmonitor.account' in place of IP Address/ DNS and whatever you'd like for the Display Name (LogicMonitor Portal, for example.)
3. - This device won't respond to standard DataSources, so you'll probably want to do some alert tuning once it's been added.
4. Add properties to the device to allow the DataSource to authenticate. The required properties are:

• lmaccount (LogicMonitor account name - without the logicmonitor.com at the end)
• lmaccess.id (LogicMonitor API Key Access ID)
• lmaccess.key (LogicMonitor API Key Access Key)

1. Once those properties are in place, the DataSource should automatically apply to the new device.
2. Download the LogicMonitor Portal Metrics dashboard from Github.
3. Let us know what you think!

Edited October 9 by Kerry DeVilbiss
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[Tom Lasswell 21]

@Kerry DeVilbiss this is awesome. Question for y'all on this, the total alert count looks to be maxing at 800. I haven't done any troubleshooting yet to see if that's just what it's reporting, but curious if that's a limitation somewhere in the script.

[Tom Lasswell 21]

Found it it's in the call to LM, 

    int itemsPerPage = 800

 

[Mosh 86]

Cool. We do a similar thing for alert volumes in each of our regions, the types of alerts (based on data points) and the alert acknowledgements by operator.

[Joe Tran 13]

We recently received and deployed a datasource we got from @Jake Cohen that also displays the number of Cloud devices monitored by a Collector, which is important for my leadership to understand our account utilization/commit metrics. I would highly encourage "LogicMonitor Portal Metrics DataSource from the LogicMonitor Repository using locator code J7RGZY" also incorporate this datapoint.