mechanism to send data to LM to graph

I would like to propose an idea that Logicmonitor needs a better way for external systems to input data into the Logicmonitor system.

Similar to Zabbix Sender https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/2.2/manpages/zabbix_sender

Use case is:

suppose alongside LM, a company runs an APM like New Relic, a log monitoring tool like Elasticsearch/Splunk, a custom Data warehouse for analytics. As the NPM, LM should be the one source of alarming and trending.

I believe the best way to integrate is to allow a direct api to send data or allow ability to interface with the collector to send data. This way any application, no matter custom or common public applications can input data into Logicmonitor.

For examples

- if elasticsearch/splunk found a critical error in its munching of logs, it will open connection to logicmonitor and send data that this error log occurs 5 times in the last 2 mins. Logicmonitor is configured to alert if > 1 so there is an alert to our NOC

- if the APM finds that a website has an immense increase in traffic from one location causing performance issues, it will open connection to logicmonitor and send data that this is occured.

- if the mining of our data warehouse finds that customers interest/purchase of one of our products has dipped 20% in the last month, it will open connection to logicmonitor and send this data.