API Poller Dynamic Array Member Metrics

kbswcon

The current API Poller implementation requires that you statically define individual API response elements for monitoring, or the size of any array.  However, if you have an array of values (e.g. Microsoft 365 support incidents) returned that may vary in size/quantity (e.g. current active incidents), you need to be able to track the variable child elements (not just the array size, but perhaps incident IDs) in order to use this data in dashboards.

twomonkeysayoyo

It's a horrible implementation detail for us having to api poll a service, that service providing an array of names that have other information and having to dynamically define these.  One thing I think my monitor should do is tell me what I don't know.  This particular issue causes me to have to know something before I can monitor it.  Basically a lack of discovery from the tool.