Correction: The API changes will be introduced at 15:00 UTC on Tuesday, February 28th.
Posted Feb 27, 2017 - 19:38 UTC
Scheduled
On Tuesday, February 28th, 2017, at 10:00 UTC, Dyn will release an update to the Internet Routing Alerts API and Performance Alerts API. This update includes significant changes to the retention policy for alerts and the number of alerts returned when queried.
Users of Internet Routing Alerts and Internet Performance Alerts should be aware of the following two changes:
1) Alerts will no longer be retained indefinitely. Instead, Dyn will delete alerts 180 days after they are raised. Requesting an alert that has been deleted will result in a "404 Not Found" error, exactly like requesting an alert that does not exist at all.
2) It will no longer be possible to make unbounded alert queries. Alert queries will be truncated at 1000 alerts per response, and a new pagination protocol makes it possible to request more alerts by making more requests.
You can avoid pagination by supplying the 'limit' request parameter, e.g.
GET /portfolio/monitoring/alerts?limit=1000
The 1000-alert limit may be changed in future at Dyn's sole discretion.