Cost Optimization – Recommendations

Cloud Recommendations Overview Cloud Recommendations allow you to reduce costs and optimize your cloud infrastructure by suggesting changes to monitored cloud resources. Using the data LogicMonitor collects, Cloud Recommendations can suggest compute and storage specifications to match your performance and capacity needs at the lowest possible cost. Cloud Recommendations highlights idle and underutilized resources, such as Amazon EC2 instances or … Continued

Collector Debug Facility

The Collector Debug Facility is a command-line interface (CLI) that you can use to remotely run debug commands on your Collector. This is helpful for troubleshooting issues with data collection. For example, if you wrote a script DataSource and are getting NaN values, or there is one instance out of ten  not reporting data, you … Continued

Custom Module Groovy Migration Validation

LogicMonitor supports embedded scripting using the Groovy programming language. The release of LogicMonitor EA Collector 34.500 provides support for Apache Groovy 4 in addition to Apache Groovy 2. For more information about the EA Collector release, see the EA Collector 34.500 Release Notes. If your environment leverages customized or community-provided modules, you must test your modules to ensure compatibility and make updates … Continued

Collector Version Management

You can manage collector versions as per your business needs. You can decide the frequency of the update, the type of release, and schedule collector updates. Similarly, you can schedule collector downgrade and view collector update history. Updating Collectors LogicMonitor has a provision to update collectors in two ways. You can schedule a one-time update … Continued

Migrating Windows Collector from Admin to Non-admin User

Previously, you could run Windows collectors using administrator (admin) credentials. Later, we extended this support to users with non-administrator (non-admin) credentials to install collectors. We have now enhanced the migration process to enable users to migrate collectors running under admin user to run under non-admin user without uninstalling collectors or losing any data. You can follow the prompt-based migration process to migrate collectors from admin … Continued

Troubleshooting Kubernetes Upgrade Issues

kube-state-metrics (KSM) is not Discoverable Cause When you use the command-line interface (CLI) to upgrade the Kubernetes cluster from 4.0.0 to 5.0.0 or later, kube-state-metrics (KSM) is not discoverable because the KSM image URL has an extra registry name appended. Resolution You need to add the following parameters to the lmc-configuration.yaml file: Helm Upgrade is Failing Cause When … Continued

Getting Data

You can use LogicMonitor REST API v3 to get data. You must authenticate yourself before making the API request. Common Query Parameters The following query parameters are common to all GET requests for Data APIs.  Parameter Type Description start Integer The start time (in epoch seconds) for returned data. It defaults to the selected graph time range. … Continued

Usage Reporting for APM Synthetics

You can leverage Usage Reporting to view the usage metrics for APM Synthetics directly in your LogicMonitor portal. LogicMonitor displays the metrics using invocations as an overall cumulative usage metric.  Requirements for Viewing Usage Data for LM Logs To view usage data for APM Synthetics in Usage Reporting, you must subscribe to APM Synthetics. Viewing Usage Data … Continued

Usage Reporting for APM Traces

You can leverage Usage Reporting to view the usage metrics for APM Traces directly in your LogicMonitor portal. LogicMonitor displays the metrics using spans as an overall cumulative usage metric.  Requirements for Viewing Usage Data for LM Logs To view usage data for APM Traces in Usage Reporting, you must subscribe to APM Traces. Viewing Usage … Continued