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Kurt_Huffman
Former Employee
7 years ago

Accessing the LogicMonitor REST API with Postman and LMv1 API Token Authentication

Introduction Postman is widely used for interacting with various REST APIs such as LogicMonitor's. However, there is no out-of-the-box support for the LMv1 authentication method which we recommend a...
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Kurt_Huffman
Former Employee
6 years ago

Thanks for sharing. Your pre-request script looks good. But "[object Object]" in the request variables suggests that there is no data in the body of your request. POST requests require some body data, most often in JSON format.

Here is example data for a POST to /sdt/sdts taken from https://www.logicmonitor.com/support/rest-api-developers-guide/v1/sdts/add-sdts/: 

{"sdtType":1,"type":"ServiceSDT","serviceId":47,"startDateTime":1469134752000,"endDateTime":1469144995000}

In Postman, it would look like this:

Confirm that your request contains properly formatted JSON data in the body. If it does, and you're still getting this error, I'll be happy to take a closer look.