How to Visualize Rootly Data in Python with pandas

The rich ecosystem of Python modules lets you get to work quickly and integrate your systems more effectively. With the CData API Driver for Python, the pandas & Matplotlib modules, and the SQLAlchemy toolkit, you can build Rootly-connected Python applications and scripts for visualizing Rootly data. This article shows how to use the pandas, SQLAlchemy, and Matplotlib built-in functions to connect to Rootly data, execute queries, and visualize the results.

With built-in optimized data processing, the CData Python Connector offers unmatched performance for interacting with live Rootly data in Python. When you issue complex SQL queries from Rootly, the driver pushes supported SQL operations, like filters and aggregations, directly to Rootly and utilizes the embedded SQL engine to process unsupported operations client-side (often SQL functions and JOIN operations).

Connecting to Rootly Data

Connecting to Rootly data looks just like connecting to any relational data source. Create a connection string using the required connection properties. For this article, you will pass the connection string as a parameter to the create_engine function.

Using API Key Authentication

To authenticate using an API key, you will need to obtain your API key from your Rootly account settings.

To get your API key:

1. Log in to your Rootly account
2. Navigate to Settings > API & Integrations
3. Click on "API Tokens"
4. Copy the generated token

After setting the following connection properties, you are ready to connect:

• AuthScheme: Set this to APIKey.
• APIKey: Set this to your Rootly API token.

Example Connection String

Profile=Rootly.apip;Authscheme=APIKey;ProfileSettings="APIKey=your_apikey";

Follow the procedure below to install the required modules and start accessing Rootly through Python objects.

Install Required Modules

Use the pip utility to install the pandas & Matplotlib modules and the SQLAlchemy toolkit:

pip install pandas
pip install matplotlib
pip install sqlalchemy

Be sure to import the module with the following:

import pandas
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from sqlalchemy import create_engine

Visualize Rootly Data in Python

You can now connect with a connection string. Use the create_engine function to create an Engine for working with Rootly data.

engine = create_engine("api:///?Profile=Rootly.apip&Authscheme=APIKey&ProfileSettings="APIKey=your_apikey"")

Execute SQL to Rootly

Use the read_sql function from pandas to execute any SQL statement and store the resultset in a DataFrame.

df = pandas.read_sql("SELECT ,  FROM Incidents WHERE Status = 'started'", engine)

Visualize Rootly Data

With the query results stored in a DataFrame, use the plot function to build a chart to display the Rootly data. The show method displays the chart in a new window.

df.plot(kind="bar", x="", y="")
plt.show()

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Full Source Code

import pandas
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from sqlalchemy import create_engin

engine = create_engine("api:///?Profile=Rootly.apip&Authscheme=APIKey&ProfileSettings="APIKey=your_apikey"")
df = pandas.read_sql("SELECT ,  FROM Incidents WHERE Status = 'started'", engine)

df.plot(kind="bar", x="", y="")
plt.show()