Number of alerts on dashboard

You can use our RPC API to to get the number of alerts per severity: http://www.logicmonitor.com/support/rpc-api-developers-guide/manage-alerts/get-alerts/

You could write a simple script datasource that makes the getAlerts API calls and reports the number of alerts per severity, and then displays the data in a dashboard widget.

Thanks Sarah,

I'll give this a try!

I might have an easier way..

Call this script directly then parse the output.

I included my datasource I created as well as XML for input into a datasource in your portal.

To have this for multiple 'groupIds' you may need to change things up (a little perl changes) by perhaps using a groovy script to pass in a variable (groupId?) for the different customers you wish to build this for. Shouldn't be hard.

#!/usr/bin/env perl

### this is the perl script you should call to output the count
### as needed

# replace username with an administrative username
# replace the password with .. the password of the user
# example below works
# don't forget to update the groupId as needed! Perhaps make it
#   a passed parameter via groovy script directly

$userName="mike";
$password="pass.w0rd";
$sitename="sitename";
$siteurl="site.logicmonitor.com"
$groupId="1";

$curlopt="'https://$siteurl/santaba/rpc/getAlerts?c=$sitename&u=$userName&p=$password&hostGroupId=$groupId'";

$curlrun="env curl -s $curlopt";

# Now we have the command to run

$alertwarn=;
$alerterr=;
$alertcrit=;

open(FILE, "-|", $curlrun) or die $!;

while (<FILE>) {
  $alertwarn++ if /warn/;
  $alerterr++ if /error/;
  $alertcrit++ if /critical/;
}
close $handle;

$alerttotal=$alertwarn+$alerterr+$alertcrit;

print "warning:" . $alertwarn . "\n";
print "error:" . $alerterr . "\n";
print "critical:" . $alertcrit . "\n";
print "total:" . $alerttotal . "\n";

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<feed  version="1.0" hasPendingRequests="false" >
  <company></company>
  <status>200</status>
  <errmsg>OK</errmsg>
  <interval></interval>
    <entry type="predatasource">
        <version>1391573679</version>
        <name>Count Alerts</name>
        <displayedas>_Count Alerts</displayedas>
        <description>Count number of alerts from LogicMonitor.

Gathers warnings, errors, criticals, and a total number.</description>
        <collector>script</collector>
        <hasMultiInstances>false</hasMultiInstances>
        <schedule>600</schedule>
        <appliesTo>system.hostname == &#34;insert-IP-here&#34; or system.hostname == &#34;insert-FQDN-here&#34;</appliesTo>
        <wildcardauto>false</wildcardauto>
        <wildcardpersist>false</wildcardpersist>
        <wildcardlinuxscript></wildcardlinuxscript>
        <wildcardlinuxcmdline></wildcardlinuxcmdline>
        <wildcardwinscript></wildcardwinscript>
        <wildcardwincmdline></wildcardwincmdline>
        <wildcardgroovyscript></wildcardgroovyscript>
        <wildcardschedule>1440</wildcardschedule>
        <wildcarddisable>false</wildcarddisable>
        <agdmethod>none</agdmethod>
        <agdparams></agdparams>
        <group></group>
        <tags></tags>
        <technology></technology>
        <adlist><![CDATA[{"id":0,"agdmethod":"none","params":{},"agdparams":"","filters":[]}]]></adlist>
        <attributes>
        <attribute>
            <name>scripttype</name>
            <value>file</value>
            <comment></comment>
        </attribute>
        <attribute>
            <name>scriptgroovy</name>
            <value>import com.santaba.agent.groovyapi.expect.Expect;
import com.santaba.agent.groovyapi.snmp.Snmp;
import com.santaba.agent.groovyapi.http.*;
import com.santaba.agent.groovyapi.jmx.*;
import org.xbill.DNS.*;</value>
            <comment></comment>
        </attribute>
        <attribute>
            <name>windowsscript</name>
            <value></value>
            <comment></comment>
        </attribute>
        <attribute>
            <name>linuxscript</name>
            <value>/usr/local/logicmonitor/agent/lib/count-alerts.pl</value>
            <comment></comment>
        </attribute>
        <attribute>
            <name>windowscmdline</name>
            <value></value>
            <comment></comment>
        </attribute>
        <attribute>
            <name>linuxcmdline</name>
            <value></value>
            <comment></comment>
        </attribute>
        </attributes>
        <datapoints>
        <datapoint>
            <name>alertwarn</name>
            <dataType>7</dataType>
            <type>2</type>
            <postprocessormethod>namevalue</postprocessormethod>
            <postprocessorparam>warning</postprocessorparam>
            <usevalue>output</usevalue>
            <alertexpr>&#62; 100</alertexpr>
            <alertmissing>1</alertmissing>
            <alertsubject></alertsubject>
            <alertbody></alertbody>
            <description></description>
            <maxvalue></maxvalue>
            <minvalue></minvalue>
            <userparam1></userparam1>
            <userparam2></userparam2>
            <userparam3></userparam3>
            <iscomposite>false</iscomposite>
            <rpn></rpn>
            <alertTransitionIval>2</alertTransitionIval>
            <alertClearTransitionIval></alertClearTransitionIval>
        </datapoint>
        <datapoint>
            <name>alerterror</name>
            <dataType>7</dataType>
            <type>2</type>
            <postprocessormethod>namevalue</postprocessormethod>
            <postprocessorparam>error</postprocessorparam>
            <usevalue>output</usevalue>
            <alertexpr>&#62; 35 50</alertexpr>
            <alertmissing>1</alertmissing>
            <alertsubject></alertsubject>
            <alertbody></alertbody>
            <description></description>
            <maxvalue></maxvalue>
            <minvalue></minvalue>
            <userparam1></userparam1>
            <userparam2></userparam2>
            <userparam3></userparam3>
            <iscomposite>false</iscomposite>
            <rpn></rpn>
            <alertTransitionIval>2</alertTransitionIval>
            <alertClearTransitionIval></alertClearTransitionIval>
        </datapoint>
        <datapoint>
            <name>alertcritical</name>
            <dataType>7</dataType>
            <type>2</type>
            <postprocessormethod>namevalue</postprocessormethod>
            <postprocessorparam>critical</postprocessorparam>
            <usevalue>output</usevalue>
            <alertexpr>&#62; 4 4 5</alertexpr>
            <alertmissing>1</alertmissing>
            <alertsubject></alertsubject>
            <alertbody></alertbody>
            <description></description>
            <maxvalue></maxvalue>
            <minvalue></minvalue>
            <userparam1></userparam1>
            <userparam2></userparam2>
            <userparam3></userparam3>
            <iscomposite>false</iscomposite>
            <rpn></rpn>
            <alertTransitionIval>2</alertTransitionIval>
            <alertClearTransitionIval></alertClearTransitionIval>
        </datapoint>
        <datapoint>
            <name>alerttotal</name>
            <dataType>7</dataType>
            <type>2</type>
            <postprocessormethod>namevalue</postprocessormethod>
            <postprocessorparam>total</postprocessorparam>
            <usevalue>output</usevalue>
            <alertexpr></alertexpr>
            <alertmissing>1</alertmissing>
            <alertsubject></alertsubject>
            <alertbody></alertbody>
            <description></description>
            <maxvalue></maxvalue>
            <minvalue></minvalue>
            <userparam1></userparam1>
            <userparam2></userparam2>
            <userparam3></userparam3>
            <iscomposite>false</iscomposite>
            <rpn></rpn>
            <alertTransitionIval>5</alertTransitionIval>
            <alertClearTransitionIval></alertClearTransitionIval>
        </datapoint>
        </datapoints>
        <graphs>
        <graph>
            <name>Alert Trending</name>
            <title>Alert Trending</title>
            <verticallabel>number</verticallabel>
            <rigid>true</rigid>
            <maxvalue>NaN</maxvalue>
            <minvalue>0.0</minvalue>
            <displayprio>1</displayprio>
            <timescale>1day</timescale>
            <base1024>false</base1024>
            <graphdatapoints>
        <graphdatapoint>
            <name>alertcritical</name>
            <datapointname>alertcritical</datapointname>
            <cf>2</cf>
        </graphdatapoint>
        <graphdatapoint>
            <name>alerterror</name>
            <datapointname>alerterror</datapointname>
            <cf>2</cf>
        </graphdatapoint>
        <graphdatapoint>
            <name>alerttotal</name>
            <datapointname>alerttotal</datapointname>
            <cf>2</cf>
        </graphdatapoint>
        <graphdatapoint>
            <name>alertwarn</name>
            <datapointname>alertwarn</datapointname>
            <cf>2</cf>
        </graphdatapoint>
            </graphdatapoints>
            <graphvirtualdatapoints>
            </graphvirtualdatapoints>
            <graphdatas>
            <graphdata>
                <type>2</type>
                <legend>Total</legend>
                <color>black</color>
                <datapointname>alerttotal</datapointname>
                <isvirtualdatapoint>false</isvirtualdatapoint>
            </graphdata>
            <graphdata>
                <type>1</type>
                <legend>Warnings</legend>
                <color>yellow</color>
                <datapointname>alertwarn</datapointname>
                <isvirtualdatapoint>false</isvirtualdatapoint>
            </graphdata>
            <graphdata>
                <type>1</type>
                <legend>Errors</legend>
                <color>orange</color>
                <datapointname>alerterror</datapointname>
                <isvirtualdatapoint>false</isvirtualdatapoint>
            </graphdata>
            <graphdata>
                <type>1</type>
                <legend>Criticals</legend>
                <color>red</color>
                <datapointname>alertcritical</datapointname>
                <isvirtualdatapoint>false</isvirtualdatapoint>
            </graphdata>
            </graphdatas>
        </graph>
        </graphs>
        <overviewgraphs>
        </overviewgraphs>
    </entry>
</feed>

On 5/1/2016 at 11:24 PM, Michael Horwath said:

I might have an easier way..

Call this script directly then parse the output.

I included my datasource I created as well as XML for input into a datasource in your portal.

To have this for multiple 'groupIds' you may need to change things up (a little perl changes) by perhaps using a groovy script to pass in a variable (groupId?) for the different customers you wish to build this for. Shouldn't be hard.

#!/usr/bin/env perl

### this is the perl script you should call to output the count
### as needed

# replace username with an administrative username
# replace the password with .. the password of the user
# example below works
# don't forget to update the groupId as needed! Perhaps make it
#   a passed parameter via groovy script directly

$userName="mike";
$password="pass.w0rd";
$sitename="sitename";
$siteurl="site.logicmonitor.com"
$groupId="1";

$curlopt="'https://$siteurl/santaba/rpc/getAlerts?c=$sitename&u=$userName&p=$password&hostGroupId=$groupId'";

$curlrun="env curl -s $curlopt";

# Now we have the command to run

$alertwarn=;
$alerterr=;
$alertcrit=;

open(FILE, "-|", $curlrun) or die $!;

while (<FILE>) {
  $alertwarn++ if /warn/;
  $alerterr++ if /error/;
  $alertcrit++ if /critical/;
}
close $handle;

$alerttotal=$alertwarn+$alerterr+$alertcrit;

print "warning:" . $alertwarn . "\n";
print "error:" . $alerterr . "\n";
print "critical:" . $alertcrit . "\n";
print "total:" . $alerttotal . "\n";

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<feed  version="1.0" hasPendingRequests="false" >
  <company></company>
  <status>200</status>
  <errmsg>OK</errmsg>
  <interval></interval>
    <entry type="predatasource">
        <version>1391573679</version>
        <name>Count Alerts</name>
        <displayedas>_Count Alerts</displayedas>
        <description>Count number of alerts from LogicMonitor.

Gathers warnings, errors, criticals, and a total number.</description>
        <collector>script</collector>
        <hasMultiInstances>false</hasMultiInstances>
        <schedule>600</schedule>
        <appliesTo>system.hostname == &#34;insert-IP-here&#34; or system.hostname == &#34;insert-FQDN-here&#34;</appliesTo>
        <wildcardauto>false</wildcardauto>
        <wildcardpersist>false</wildcardpersist>
        <wildcardlinuxscript></wildcardlinuxscript>
        <wildcardlinuxcmdline></wildcardlinuxcmdline>
        <wildcardwinscript></wildcardwinscript>
        <wildcardwincmdline></wildcardwincmdline>
        <wildcardgroovyscript></wildcardgroovyscript>
        <wildcardschedule>1440</wildcardschedule>
        <wildcarddisable>false</wildcarddisable>
        <agdmethod>none</agdmethod>
        <agdparams></agdparams>
        <group></group>
        <tags></tags>
        <technology></technology>
        <adlist><![CDATA[{"id":0,"agdmethod":"none","params":{},"agdparams":"","filters":[]}]]></adlist>
        <attributes>
        <attribute>
            <name>scripttype</name>
            <value>file</value>
            <comment></comment>
        </attribute>
        <attribute>
            <name>scriptgroovy</name>
            <value>import com.santaba.agent.groovyapi.expect.Expect;
import com.santaba.agent.groovyapi.snmp.Snmp;
import com.santaba.agent.groovyapi.http.*;
import com.santaba.agent.groovyapi.jmx.*;
import org.xbill.DNS.*;</value>
            <comment></comment>
        </attribute>
        <attribute>
            <name>windowsscript</name>
            <value></value>
            <comment></comment>
        </attribute>
        <attribute>
            <name>linuxscript</name>
            <value>/usr/local/logicmonitor/agent/lib/count-alerts.pl</value>
            <comment></comment>
        </attribute>
        <attribute>
            <name>windowscmdline</name>
            <value></value>
            <comment></comment>
        </attribute>
        <attribute>
            <name>linuxcmdline</name>
            <value></value>
            <comment></comment>
        </attribute>
        </attributes>
        <datapoints>
        <datapoint>
            <name>alertwarn</name>
            <dataType>7</dataType>
            <type>2</type>
            <postprocessormethod>namevalue</postprocessormethod>
            <postprocessorparam>warning</postprocessorparam>
            <usevalue>output</usevalue>
            <alertexpr>&#62; 100</alertexpr>
            <alertmissing>1</alertmissing>
            <alertsubject></alertsubject>
            <alertbody></alertbody>
            <description></description>
            <maxvalue></maxvalue>
            <minvalue></minvalue>
            <userparam1></userparam1>
            <userparam2></userparam2>
            <userparam3></userparam3>
            <iscomposite>false</iscomposite>
            <rpn></rpn>
            <alertTransitionIval>2</alertTransitionIval>
            <alertClearTransitionIval></alertClearTransitionIval>
        </datapoint>
        <datapoint>
            <name>alerterror</name>
            <dataType>7</dataType>
            <type>2</type>
            <postprocessormethod>namevalue</postprocessormethod>
            <postprocessorparam>error</postprocessorparam>
            <usevalue>output</usevalue>
            <alertexpr>&#62; 35 50</alertexpr>
            <alertmissing>1</alertmissing>
            <alertsubject></alertsubject>
            <alertbody></alertbody>
            <description></description>
            <maxvalue></maxvalue>
            <minvalue></minvalue>
            <userparam1></userparam1>
            <userparam2></userparam2>
            <userparam3></userparam3>
            <iscomposite>false</iscomposite>
            <rpn></rpn>
            <alertTransitionIval>2</alertTransitionIval>
            <alertClearTransitionIval></alertClearTransitionIval>
        </datapoint>
        <datapoint>
            <name>alertcritical</name>
            <dataType>7</dataType>
            <type>2</type>
            <postprocessormethod>namevalue</postprocessormethod>
            <postprocessorparam>critical</postprocessorparam>
            <usevalue>output</usevalue>
            <alertexpr>&#62; 4 4 5</alertexpr>
            <alertmissing>1</alertmissing>
            <alertsubject></alertsubject>
            <alertbody></alertbody>
            <description></description>
            <maxvalue></maxvalue>
            <minvalue></minvalue>
            <userparam1></userparam1>
            <userparam2></userparam2>
            <userparam3></userparam3>
            <iscomposite>false</iscomposite>
            <rpn></rpn>
            <alertTransitionIval>2</alertTransitionIval>
            <alertClearTransitionIval></alertClearTransitionIval>
        </datapoint>
        <datapoint>
            <name>alerttotal</name>
            <dataType>7</dataType>
            <type>2</type>
            <postprocessormethod>namevalue</postprocessormethod>
            <postprocessorparam>total</postprocessorparam>
            <usevalue>output</usevalue>
            <alertexpr></alertexpr>
            <alertmissing>1</alertmissing>
            <alertsubject></alertsubject>
            <alertbody></alertbody>
            <description></description>
            <maxvalue></maxvalue>
            <minvalue></minvalue>
            <userparam1></userparam1>
            <userparam2></userparam2>
            <userparam3></userparam3>
            <iscomposite>false</iscomposite>
            <rpn></rpn>
            <alertTransitionIval>5</alertTransitionIval>
            <alertClearTransitionIval></alertClearTransitionIval>
        </datapoint>
        </datapoints>
        <graphs>
        <graph>
            <name>Alert Trending</name>
            <title>Alert Trending</title>
            <verticallabel>number</verticallabel>
            <rigid>true</rigid>
            <maxvalue>NaN</maxvalue>
            <minvalue>0.0</minvalue>
            <displayprio>1</displayprio>
            <timescale>1day</timescale>
            <base1024>false</base1024>
            <graphdatapoints>
        <graphdatapoint>
            <name>alertcritical</name>
            <datapointname>alertcritical</datapointname>
            <cf>2</cf>
        </graphdatapoint>
        <graphdatapoint>
            <name>alerterror</name>
            <datapointname>alerterror</datapointname>
            <cf>2</cf>
        </graphdatapoint>
        <graphdatapoint>
            <name>alerttotal</name>
            <datapointname>alerttotal</datapointname>
            <cf>2</cf>
        </graphdatapoint>
        <graphdatapoint>
            <name>alertwarn</name>
            <datapointname>alertwarn</datapointname>
            <cf>2</cf>
        </graphdatapoint>
            </graphdatapoints>
            <graphvirtualdatapoints>
            </graphvirtualdatapoints>
            <graphdatas>
            <graphdata>
                <type>2</type>
                <legend>Total</legend>
                <color>black</color>
                <datapointname>alerttotal</datapointname>
                <isvirtualdatapoint>false</isvirtualdatapoint>
            </graphdata>
            <graphdata>
                <type>1</type>
                <legend>Warnings</legend>
                <color>yellow</color>
                <datapointname>alertwarn</datapointname>
                <isvirtualdatapoint>false</isvirtualdatapoint>
            </graphdata>
            <graphdata>
                <type>1</type>
                <legend>Errors</legend>
                <color>orange</color>
                <datapointname>alerterror</datapointname>
                <isvirtualdatapoint>false</isvirtualdatapoint>
            </graphdata>
            <graphdata>
                <type>1</type>
                <legend>Criticals</legend>
                <color>red</color>
                <datapointname>alertcritical</datapointname>
                <isvirtualdatapoint>false</isvirtualdatapoint>
            </graphdata>
            </graphdatas>
        </graph>
        </graphs>
        <overviewgraphs>
        </overviewgraphs>
    </entry>
</feed>

 

Hi Michael,

thanks for the reply. I was not able to import the XML file, but managed to recreate what you did :-).

Works like a charm, thanks!

Jeroen

You're very welcome!

Bummer the XML didn't load