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API: Get table of device history by sensor

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Hi guys,

I'm trying to get a detailed history of device statistics out of the PRTG API. I'm using this query to pull channel values by datetime:

/api/table.json?content=values&output=json&columns=datetime,value_,coverage&id=14129

I'd like to do that, but for all channels of a device. I'd like to specify a list of sensors, then have data returned in something along the lines of the following:

/api/table.json?content=values&output=json&columns=datetime,value_,coverage&id=14130,14131,14132 sensorID / datetime / value / downtime / coverage

This would result in a long json object, but the software I'm using (PowerBI) is then able to slice that file up by a given object ID (in this case, the sensor identifier). Currently I'm doing this by doing a lot of the former query (single sensor values) and merging those tables, but this is becoming unwieldy - I have 50+ sensors we're pulling data from.

Thanks!

Cameron

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Created on Mar 6, 2017 8:02:28 AM



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Dear crmunro,

Thank you very much for your KB-posting.

Please clarify if you want to get the last value of the primary channel for all sensors of a particular node (device, group, probe) or of a list of given sensor IDs.

You can get the last value of the primary channel if you list all sensors of a particular node. However to get the data of a pre-defined list, or the data of all channels, you can do it only sensor by sensor.

Best regards,
Sven

Created on Mar 6, 2017 2:28:50 PM by Sven Roggenhofer [Paessler Technical Support]



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Hi Sven,

I'd like a list of historical values for a list of given sensor IDs. I guess the best way I can summarise that is to get a concatenated list of the below queries:

/api/table.json?content=values&output=json&columns=datetime,value_,coverage&id=14129 /api/table.json?content=values&output=json&columns=datetime,value_,coverage&id=14130 /api/table.json?content=values&output=json&columns=datetime,value_,coverage&id=14134

So that all values are returned in one result, with the following API call:

/api/table.json?content=values&output=json&columns=datetime,value_,coverage&id=14129,14130,14134

The reason for doing this is that pulling large amounts of related data out of PRTG becomes quite a hassle - for example, if I want historical temperature, humidity, and dew point data from a UPS, I need to run three API calls and then concatenate those results in my reporting software.

Perhaps this could be a feature request?

Cameron

Created on Mar 7, 2017 8:37:58 AM



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Hey Cameron,

Unfortunately this is not possible. Please do this sensor by sensor as it is not possible to add several comma separated object-IDs to an API-call.

We really appreciate your feature request, but as we are currently working on several new features and improvements of PRTG it is unlikely that this will come in the near future, I am afraid.

Best regards,
Sven

Created on Mar 7, 2017 1:00:51 PM by Sven Roggenhofer [Paessler Technical Support]

Last change on Mar 7, 2017 1:11:06 PM by Sven Roggenhofer [Paessler Technical Support]




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