Get Config Data
Last updated - 23 July, 2025
Overview
You can use LogicMonitor’s REST API to programmatically get all config files for a ConfigSource instance. As with all of our API calls, authentication is required.
Resource Information
HTTP Method: GET
URI:
/device/devices/{deviceId}/devicedatasources/{deviceDataSourceId}/instances/{instanceId}/config Where:
- deviceId is the device id, which can be obtained via the Devices Resource
- deviceDatasourceId is the id of the ConfigSource, which can be obtained via the Device Datasource Resource
- instanceId is the id of the ConfigSource instance for which you want to retrieve a config, which you can get from the Instance resource
Request Parameters: By default, a list of 50 stored config results will be returned. You can include the following query parameters to control what data is included in the response and how it is formatted. Note that query parameters are not considered part of the resource path, and should not be included in the calculation of the LMv1 authentication signature.
| Property | Syntax | Description | Example URI |
| fields | fields=list of properties separated by commas | Filters the response to only include the following fields for each object | /device/devices/12/devicedatasources/45/instances/67/config?fields=id,version,deltaConfig |
| sort | sort={+ or -}property | Sorts the response by the property specified in either increasing (+) or decreasing (-) order | /device/devices/9/devicedatasources/65/instances/84/config?sort=-version |
| filter | filter=property{operator}value | Filters the response according to the operator and value specified. Note that you can use * to match on more than one character.You can use the ‘.’ character to filter values within an object (e.g. custom properties), and multiple filters can be separated by a comma.
Operators include:
| /device/devices/3/devicedatasources/65/instances/84/config?filter=changeStatus:Change |
| size | size=integer | The number of results to display. Max is 1000. | /device/devices/5/devicedatasources/65/instances/84/config?size=5 |
| offset | offset=integer | The number of results to offset the displayed results by | /device/devices/6/devicedatasources/65/instances/84/config?offset=2 |
Each config will include an id, version, timestamp, the configuration file text, the differences detected from the last version, and any alerts that were triggered based on the changes. To get only the latest version of a config, you can sort by version and limit the results to one by using the following query parameters: ?sort=-version&size=1
Example
The following Python script will return config data for device 674, ConfigSource 14921, instance 210728286:
#!/bin/env python import requests import json import hashlib import base64 import time import hmac #Account Info AccessId ='48v2wRzfK94y53sq5EuF' AccessKey ='H_D9i(f5~B^U36^K6i42=^nS~e75gy382Bf6{)P+' Company = 'api' #Request Info httpVerb ='GET' resourcePath = '/device/devices/674/devicedatasources/14921/instances/210728286/config' queryParams = '' data = '' #Construct URL url = 'https://'+ Company +'.logicmonitor.com/santaba/rest' + resourcePath +queryParams #Get current time in milliseconds epoch = str(int(time.time() * 1000)) #Concatenate Request details requestVars = httpVerb + epoch + data + resourcePath #Construct signature hmac1 = hmac.new(AccessKey.encode(),msg=requestVars.encode(),digestmod=hashlib.sha256).hexdigest() signature = base64.b64encode(hmac1.encode()) #Construct headers auth = 'LMv1 ' + AccessId + ':' + signature.decode() + ':' + epoch headers = {'Content-Type':'application/json','Authorization':auth} #Make request response = requests.get(url, data=data, headers=headers) #Print status and body of response print('Response Status:',response.status_code) print('Response Body:',response.content)