Asset Tacker

The asset tracker API allows the operations that an asset undergoes whilst traversing the data pipeline within Flir to be tracked as displayed.

GET /flir/track - return tracking data for one or more asset

Parameters

• asset - define the asset to be tracked. If omitted tracking data for all assets is returned

• event - the event to track. If omitted all events will be returned

• service - limit the tracking data to a particular service

Response Payload

An array of tracked events, each of which contains the following

Name	Type	Description	Example
asset	string	The name of the asset for which this track event relates	sinusoid
event	string	The event that was tracked, this will be one of Ingest, Filter or Egress	Ingest
service	string	The name of the service this event was tracked in	testSignal4
flir	string	The name of the flir instance this event was tracked in	flir002
plugin	string	The name of the plugin this event was tracked in	sinusoid
timestamp	string	The timestamp when this event was first tracked	2022-07-06 10:20:13.059
deprecatedTimestamp	string	The timestamp when this event was deprecated	2022-07-06 10:20:13.059

Note

Asset tracking deprecation allows for old information regarding the plugin that ingested an asset to be hidden when that asset is no longer ingested by the plugin. When this is done the deprecatedTimestamp value is set to be a non-empty timestamp.

Example

Return the asset tracking data for the asset called sinusoid

curl http://localhost:8081/flir/track?asset=sinusoid

Returns

{
  "track": [
    {
      "asset": "sinusoid",
      "event": "Filter",
      "service": "test1",
      "flir": "Flir",
      "plugin": "test2",
      "timestamp": "2022-07-06 10:20:13.059"
    },
    {
      "asset": "sinusoid",
      "event": "Ingest",
      "service": "test1",
      "flir": "Flir",
      "plugin": "sinusoid",
      "timestamp": "2022-07-11 16:12:25.749"
    },
    {
      "asset": "sinusoid",
      "event": "Filter",
      "service": "test1",
      "flir": "Flir",
      "plugin": "python35",
      "timestamp": "2022-07-13 12:33:10.082"
    },
    {
      "asset": "sinusoid",
      "event": "Egress",
      "service": "OMF",
      "flir": "Flir",
      "plugin": "OMF",
      "timestamp": "2022-07-15 14:07:14.950"
    }
  ]
}

Deprecation

There are some circumstances in which old data regarding asset tracking needs to be removed. In particular when a plugin ingests multiple assets or asset names have changed, it is convenient for the user to remove the association with the old asset names.

PUT /flir/track/service/service_name/asset/asset_name/event/event_name - mark the asset tracking event as deprecated

Parameters

• service_name - the name of the service for which we want to deprecate the asset tracking event

• asset_name - the name of the asset that we should deprecate

• event_name - the name of the event to deprecate

Note

There is no API to remove the deprecation of an asset tracking event, this is done automatically when assets are tracked in future events.