Adding Weather to Map Widgets
LogicMonitor's Map widgets are a great and easy way to plot resources/groupsgeographically, including their status. A question that comes up occasionally is if it's possible to show weather information on top of these maps. While there's currently not a native option to show weather on a Map widget, it is possible to inject a weather layer onto an existing map with a bit of JavaScript. Below is a link to a sample dashboard that can insert various types of weather info onto Map widgets.Simply save the linked JSON file to your local workstation, then in your LogicMonitor portal go to Dashboards and click Add > From File. Dynamic_Weather_Overlay.json The magic happens in JavaScript embedded in the source of the Text widget. Feel free to explore the source code by entering the Text widget's Configure dialog and clicking the 'Source' button. In typical overkill fashion, I included the option for several differenttypes of weather information. The script looks for the following text (regardless of case) in the Map widget's title and adds the appropriate weather/info layer: "Radar" or "Precip" "NEXRAD Base" "NEXRAD Echo Tops" "MRMS" "Temperature" (OpenWeatherMap.org API key required) "Wind Speed" (OpenWeatherMap.org API key required) "Cloud Cover" or "Satellite" (OpenWeatherMap.org API key required) "fire"(for including perimeters of active wildfires) Prerequisites If you want to use one of the map types noted above as needing an API key (the other types use free APIs that don't require a key), you'll need to register for a free account on OpenWeatherMap.org. Once you've obtained an API key, just add a new dashboard token named 'OpenWeatherAPIKey' and paste your key into its value field.Alternatively, you can also hard-code the key directlyin the 'openWeatherMapsAPIKey' variable near the top of the script. The weather overlays should auto-update when the widgets performtheir regular timed refresh. For instance, new radar imagery is made available every 10 minutes and will update automatically. Weather sources currently defined within this script: RainViewer.com- Excellent source of global weather imaging data. Updates approx. every 10 minutes. Used by the script for radar/precipitation maps. Open Geospatial Consortium- Hosted by Iowa State University, an excellent free source of weather data. Since it sources data from the US National Weather Service, its data is local just US and Canada. Used by the script for NEXRAD and MRMS data. OpenWeatherMap.org- Good source for some weather data such as wind speed, temperature, and cloud cover. Requires use of an API key, which is available for free. National Interagency Fire Center - For data about active US wildfires. Known Issues: When switching to a different dashboard containing a Map widget, it's possible weather may still be visible on the new dashboard. If that happensjust refresh the page.
Access to Group or Device properties from a text widget
I’m looking for a way to display custom properties from an arbitrary group. We have a dashboard that shows widgets from a specific client group using the group/device pulldown text widget built by @Kevin Ford :Dynamic Dashboards | Community (logicmonitor.com). I’m trying to figure out how to get to custom properties set at the group to display info about that particular client for our staff to have easy reference to. Something like ##defaultResourceGroup##/##example.property## We have our client’s groups tagged with specific contact and support links (KB, Azure Portal, etc...) that would be useful to have direct access to.Ability to exclude a device(s)/device groups from a Dashboard widget?
Hi, I am fairly new to LogicMonitor and this is my first time using the community, so forgive me if this has already been asked/answered somewhere.. but is there a way that you can exclude specific devices/device groups from a widget within a dashboard? As an example, I don’t want our File Servers to appear on our Volume Utilization widget as each of the disks will always be operating at 90%+ utilization, so I’d like to at least have to option to exclude them as “known exceptions” if you like. I couldn’t see any logical settings within the widget itself which I could amend to configure this, and I alsoreported this to customer support team who said that there isn’t currently a global expression which could be applied to the widget in order match our requirement. Does anyone know whether I’m missing a trick here or whether this has is on the LogicMonitor roadmap for the future? Thanks in advance!
