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Please provide example code for creating these via the v3 API.

Running assumption: the API is broken and this cannot be achieved, as only the V4 API permits this.

David Bond

Posted 1 month ago · Edited 1 month ago·Last reply Jul 17, 2026 at 4:23 PM

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David Bond

OPJul 17, 2026 at 4:23 PM

For others arriving at this point in the Rabbit hole, we eventually figured out the runes and you have to send in some additional query string runes. Implementation is now available open source here: https://github.com/panoramicdata/LogicMonitor.Api/

Jan Garaj

·1 month ago

Uptime is just device, so use:

POST https://{company}.logicmonitor.com/santaba/rest/device/devices?v=3

Payload (LLM generated from TF example https://github.com/logicmonitor/terraform-provider-logicmonitor/blob/master/examples/uptime/resource.tf so it may need some tweaking):

{
  "name": "Test-Web-Check-Int-V3-Int-New-112201",
  "displayName": "Test-Web-Check-Int-V3-Int-New-112201",
  "deviceType": 18,
  "type": "uptimewebcheck",
  "preferredCollectorId": 10,
  "description": "",
  "hostGroupIds": "276147",
  "isInternal": true,
  "globalSmAlertCond": 0,
  "useDefaultAlertSetting": false,
  "useDefaultLocationSetting": false,
  "overallAlertLevel": "warn",
  "pollingInterval": 5,
  "pageLoadAlertTimeInMS": 30000,
  "alertExpr": "",
  "domain": "www.google.com",
  "ignoreSSL": true,
  "schema": "https",
  "transition": 1,
  "triggerSSLExpirationAlert": false,
  "triggerSSLStatusAlert": false,
  "testLocation": {
    "all": true,
    "collectorIds": [30329],
    "smgIds": []
  },
  "customProperties": [
    { "name": "addr",     "value": "127.0.0.1" },
    { "name": "host",     "value": "localhost" },
    { "name": "location", "value": "pune" },
    { "name": "system.categories", "value": "" }
  ],
  "steps": [
    {
      "schema": "https",
      "respType": "config",
      "timeout": 1,
      "matchType": "json",
      "description": "string",
      "useDefaultRoot": true,
      "HTTPMethod": "GET",
      "enable": true,
      "HTTPVersion": "1.1",
      "followRedirection": true,
      "postDataEditType": "raw",
      "name": "string",
      "reqType": "config",
      "fullpageLoad": false,
      "requireAuth": false,
      "HTTPHeaders": "X-Version:3",
      "auth": null,
      "path": "$.data.resultKey",
      "keyword": "DEVWRT-SANRT-JOB1-9127",
      "HTTPBody": "string",
      "respScript": "string",
      "reqScript": "string",
      "label": "string",
      "url": "/santaba/rest/version",
      "type": "string",
      "invertMatch": true,
      "statusCode": "200"
    }
  ]
}