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ctscalbers · ‎Jul 28 2020

I need to export the event logs prior to a particular date and have not been successful. I'm attempting to use Postman to get this done. MerakiConnor has been a great help in this thread https://community.meraki.com/t5/Security-SD-WAN/Download-logs-of-the-last-8-months/td-p/85818 but I'm not quite getting what I need. I don't really understand API's as I have no programming background. My current issue is how to format the "endingBefore" parameter. I want to put a date in there but I keep getting an error message that "'endingBefore' must be a valid ISO 8601 formatted timestamp". Also, I don't know how to get the results saved to a readable format like a CSV file. Any help is appreciated.

ctscalbers · ‎Jul 27 2020

Excellent write up and I really appreciate it. It has gotten me much further than I would have gotten on my own. I enabled API in my Meraki dashboard and got my API key. I got Postman installed and followed your instructions. I'm able to get data but I'm hung up on two points. I want to see event log entries that happened before a particular data and time so I'm trying to use the "endingBefore" parameter but it gives me an error that the "endingBefore must be a valid ISO 8601 formatted timestamp". I attempted to look up ISO 8601 formatting and came up with "2020-07-27T13:00" but that does not work either. How should this parameter be formatted? Second issue I'm having is getting the output into some sort of file or format I can use. I have looked up JSON and I see it is JavaScript Object Notation and I see how the output is organized but it is not easy to read in that format. I also see where I can save the output to a file named .json and I will see what I can do with that file type. Sorry for the many questions but I don't have much experience with this type of thing. Thanks again for your help.

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Re: Download logs of the last 8 months.