Carbon Black Cloud: Why Does The New Alert ID Has More Than 8 Characters?

Products

• Carbon Black Cloud Endpoint Standard (formerly Cb Defense)
• Carbon Black Cloud Enterprise EDR (formerly Cb Threathunter)

Issue/Introduction

Why does the new alert ID has more than 8 characters ?

Environment

• Carbon Black Cloud Console: All Versions
• Carbon Black Cloud: All Versions

Resolution

Following the CBC backend update on 26 August 2021 to version 0.69, Carbon Black Cloud has aligned on the GUID format as our standard for all types of alerts in the product including CB Analytics to better unify alerts within our platform.

Additional Information

• This change should have no effect on user behavior, nor will it affect your ability to search on past alerts that use the shortened legacy_alert_id format.
• The field legacy_alert_id will be deprecated in a future API revision.