GET uimapi/metrics api key value documentation for CU6

Products

• DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM)
• CA Unified Infrastructure Management On-Premise (Nimsoft / UIM)
• CA Unified Infrastructure Management SaaS (Nimsoft / UIM)

Issue/Introduction

We have observed that the key value timeSinceEpoch is not giving the expected results from the api call GET uimapi/metrics in CU6.

We were currently running the api call GET uimapi/metrics in CU4. Please provide a documented solution or let us know the CU6 release notes which includes the information on the key value timeSinceEpoch  

Environment

• DX UIM 23.4 CU4
• DX UIM 23.4 CU6

Cause

• uimapi call renamed

Resolution

Engineering compared DX UIM 23.4 CU4 and CU6 and observed that the key timeSinceEpoch has been renamed to epochtime. The functionality remains unchanged. This key returns the time in epoch format and reflects the latest metric data received in UIM.

From a functionality perspective, this is working as expected. 

Regarding the documentation concern, in the tech docs, we describe API usage, but do not document the complete metadata for each API. While Swagger provides documentation for the APIs and their input parameters, it does not include details about the output.

We will take this feedback into account and ensure that any changes to output keys are documented in the release notes going forward.