Hello dear Paessler Team

We are currently building some automation routines to produce custom report, while using the PRTG API. We are able to extract probes, groups, devices, sensors, & are able to query the API to generate the graphs.

However we are currently stuck on the following need. For a given group (or device), we would like to fetch the 3 most/least top values for a given type of sensor. For instance: - to get the 3 most bandwith consuming interfaces for a device - to get the 3 most CPU consuming devices for a group

Would you mind kindly guide us on how we can achieve that ?

Best Regards

Mathieu Boscher

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Hello,

I'm afraid this might not be easily possible. You can get a sorted table from the API for live values on sensors of a device or a group (and have this table filtered by sensor tag, which equivalents a sensor type).
But for historic data, i.e. reports, it's complicated. The API can only deliver historic data on a per-sensor-basis. So it would be necessary to move the logic (searching the Top 3 sensors) into the external script that accesses the API. And then request the historic data for all sensors of the group / device.

best regards.


Jun, 2014 - Permalink

Dear Paessler Team

Indeed, this is what we have done: - use the API to export historic data for a given period - then proceed with filtering & sorting using an external script. - & finally just the consider the X top sensors of a given type.

So, we finally achieve what we were looking for!

Thanks for your help.

Best regards

Mathieu Boscher


Jun, 2014 - Permalink