API Pollers: When SNMP Won't Cut It

For many modern devices and applications, the API has become the lingua franca to extract data. And the Orion Platform, a modern monitoring solution, has kept up with the times to let you monitor data with the API poller option in Server & Application Monitor (SAM). In this session, we’ll cover three of the most exciting features recently announced in the SAM API poller: chaining multiple requests, monitoring string variables, and bulk API management.

Resources:

SAM API Poller Template Guide

Server and Application Monitor (SAM) 2020.2.1

How the API Poller feature in SAM works

Manage API Pollers

Custom Application Monitoring with SAM

Intro to APIs for People Who Hate to Program

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