GetAccount.md

GET Account

Request used to get account details for a specified account

• URL

  https://rest.logentries.com/management/accounts/:accountid

• Method:

  GET

• Authentication:

  Owner key is required.

• URL Params

accountid=[UUID] Example Value: de305d54-75b4-431b-adb2-eb6b9e546014

• Data Params

  None

• Success Response:

  • Code: 200
    Content:

    {
        "id": "0d9dcbd3-11a8-49f4-a028-dfa46d71de5a",
        "email": "[email protected]",
        "name": "Foo Bar",
        "organization": "Foo Bar INC",
        "max_retention_period": 100000,
        "retention_period": 100000,
        "owner_api_key_id": "bebb6a4a-62f8-48f2-b10a-b48792e77a87",
        "rw_api_key": "8df0c98b-73cc-4a2f-8cfe-c55e7971e3e3"
        "ro_api_key": "858595c4-715f-4ac8-8cdd-bbd86084adc9",
    }
    

• Error Response:

  If a request other then GET is made.

  • Code: 405 UNAUTHORIZED
    

  If the Account ID can not be found or signatures do not match

  • Code: 404 NOT FOUND
    

• Sample Call:

    import base64
    import datetime
    import hashlib
    import hmac
  
    import requests
  
    resource_id = "<your_resource_id>"
    api_key_id = "<your_api_key_id>"
    api_key = "<your_api_key>"
    uri = 'management/accounts/%s' % resource_id
  
  
    def gensignature(api_key, date, content_type, request_method, query_path, request_body):
        encoded_hashed_body = base64.b64encode(hashlib.sha256(request_body).digest())
        canonical_string = request_method + content_type + date + query_path + encoded_hashed_body
  
        # Create a new hmac digester with the api key as the signing key and sha1 as the algorithm
        digest = hmac.new(api_key, digestmod=hashlib.sha1)
        digest.update(canonical_string)
  
        return digest.digest()
  
  
    def create_headers():
        date_h = datetime.datetime.utcnow().strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S GMT")
        content_type_h = "application/json"
        method = 'GET'
        action = uri
        signature = gensignature(api_key, date_h, content_type_h, method, action, '')
        headers = {
            "Date": date_h,
            "Content-Type": content_type_h,
            "authorization-api-key": "%s:%s" % (api_key_id.encode('utf8'), base64.b64encode(signature))
        }
        print headers
        return headers
  
  
    headers = create_headers()
  
  
    def get_account():
        url = "https://rest.logentries.com/" + uri
        print url
        r = requests.request('GET', url, headers=headers)
        print r.status_code, r.content
  
  
    def start():
        get_account()
  
  
    if __name__ == '__main__':
        start()
  

• Notes: