Update system health REST API scripts
After upgrading to ExtraHop firmware version 7.4, you must update any REST API scripts that access ExtraHop system health metrics. System health metrics include diagnostic information about how an appliance is functioning, such as the number of packets the appliance is capturing or how many triggers are running on it.
View a complete list of affected system health metrics at the end of this procedure..
You must update any scripts that reference the following metric names:
- app_input_cycles_total
- ether_input_cycles
- ether_input_cycles_total
- filtered_bytes
- filtered_pkts
- flow_expireq_cycles
- flow_expireq_cycles_total
- flows
- heap_alloc
- if_drops
- if_frames
- l2_dup_bytes
- l2_dup_pkts
- l3_dup_bytes
- l3_dup_pkts
- l4_dup_bytes
- l4_dup_pkts
- one_sec_tick_cycles
- one_sec_tick_cycles_total
- pktcap_bytes_written
- remote_queue_full
- remote_queue_len
- rpcapd_ifdrop
- rpcapd_ifrecv
- rpcapd_krnldrop
- rpcapd_snd_tunnel_pkts
- rpcap_encap_bytes
- rpcap_encap_pkts
- rpcap_rcv_tunnel_bytes
- rpcap_rcv_tunnel_pkts
- ssl_completion_cycles
- ssl_completion_cycles_total
- timestamped
- total_cycles
- trigger_cycles
- trigger_cycles_all
- trigger_cycles_avail
- trigger_cycles_detail
- trigger_cycles_thread_detail
- trigger_cycles_total_detail
- trigger_drops
- trigger_exceptions_detail
- trigger_executes
- trigger_executes_detail
- trigger_heap_alloc
- trigger_thread_count
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