Is there a way to export data source to a template file; CSV?

Not sure I get why the report doesn't fit the bill. Feel free to expound on that.

In the meantime, to summarize your needs: for each DataSource that has instances, show each datapoint's name, description, and threshold (if there is a threshold). Is that right? I can probably spend some time mapping out which API calls you'd need to do for this.

As an incentive to me (i'm mostly joking, i'm already looking in postman at the api calls to do this) can i get a little quid pro quo? I need customer feedback on a href="https://communities.logicmonitor.com/topic/5871-your-feedback-requested-community-rank-names/" rel="">this.

Short answer is that you can export the XML definition of any DataSource by navigating to the DS under Settings>>DataSources. Under More, there's an Export function. 

Hey Stu,

So as an MSP, we get asked all the time from client(s) and new potential new clients what'sour monitoring template for each different technology.

We needed to create an excel sheet with each different Technology and then listed each UIM probe, what it collected and if it alerted what threshold it alerted at, the time it polled, samples etc.. 

Example Windows Base Template:

We had an excel workbook with 30+ different technologies each on their own tab that were the mostly commonly in use and could share that with clients.

I saw that export option but that isn't going to help b/c that exports into XML. I need a csv format. I can't send an xml to client(s) and say go read that.  ?

Regarding your questions:

Not sure I get why the report doesn't fit the bill. Feel free to expound on that.

>> B/c that lists every single datapoint instance. I need just the general what would be picked up by the monitoring tool. (See pic above)

In the meantime, to summarize your needs: for each DataSource that has instances, show each datapoint's name, description, and threshold (if there is a threshold). Is that right? 

>> Yes this is correct. Exactly or as similar to what's listed in the pic above. 

As an incentive to me can i get a little quid pro quo?

>> I know many LM users get asked this all the time. I know we did and will and will need to re-create this with LM as our new tool.

What if you did this: start with the report in CSV format. Only include these columns in the report. Then just remove the duplicates from the report. I know it involves post-processing the output, but take a look and see if that gets you what you want. I ended up with 1440 thresholds, but I have a bunch of group, device, and instance level thresholds. You could exclude those as well just by filtering on the ThresholdType column. 

This can totally be done with the API. I just use the Get-LogicMonitorDataSource cmdlet from my PowerShell module (https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/LogicMonitor/). Then, you can just inspect the alertExpr property for each datapoint.

Hi @Stuart Weenig so getting back to this thread, so the Alert Threshold Report is a good start but still not what we need exactly. We need a similar report but one that can pull data from the DataSources as a source to base the report on. This should be OOTB and not have to be done thru a script. 
It would be very helpful for those who need this type of report if the OOTB "Alert Threshold Report' included the DataPoint description as a column in the report? Is that possible?