+3Hi,
Is there a way to query Snapshot Metadata via API? As I understand every snapshot of an application is a separate application, but when I retrieve Metadata using this post by
Why you might ask? I would like to automatically extract data from the same metric via API, but from different snapshots to show and monitor historic changes. I know that I will have to use text comparison to extract the metric by name, but that’s ok.
Thanks!
Best answer by Julien
Hi Kaur,
It is indeed possible to export Metric data from a Snapshot, but for now Snapshots aren’t included in the Metadata API as you found out.
To be honest, this is not a conscious choice, but more how we built it by default since we didn’t see a use case for retrieving Snapshot metadata. We could consider adding it but it’s not planned for now.
+11Hi Kaur,
It is indeed possible to export Metric data from a Snapshot, but for now Snapshots aren’t included in the Metadata API as you found out.
To be honest, this is not a conscious choice, but more how we built it by default since we didn’t see a use case for retrieving Snapshot metadata. We could consider adding it but it’s not planned for now.
+7The way i understand this is that we d like to be able to extract any data point with api be it live data or a snapshot data point
Is there a place where we can discuss apis enhancements requests ?
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Is there a place where we can discuss apis enhancements requests ?
The ideal approach is to search the community for similar requests and upvoting or commenting there. Otherwise, I would suggest creating a new idea in the community to list these requests.
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