Updated Magic queries documentation

As part of a continuing effort to update and improve documentation, the first information on magic queries is now available.

Sometimes you want data from ShadowTrackr that you know is in there, but cannot get out with the query language. A good example is if you want to combine data from two or more indexes. The query language does not support joins. This is where magic queries are used.

All magic queries start with a $. There are a number of existing ones, and they are now listed in the documentation. For quick access, just type $ in the search bar in the gui and auto-complete will show you what's available.

If you cannot find the magic query that you need, contact support and we'll try to make a new magic query for your specific needs.

Updated scheduling algorithms

Most scheduling algorithms have been reviewed and updated. The trigger for this was that sometimes an item could drop out or get stuck somewhere and was not properly scanned for a while. That is fixed now, and the resulting backlog of unscanned items was processed over the weekend.

API v4 is here, with more data and more options

ShadowTrackr has been gathering more information on your assets since API v3 was released. There are more indexes, reports and magic queries available too. Not all of those were available in the API yet. Also, version 3 had some inconsistenties that we'd love to get rid of.

Api v4 is now available. The ShadowTrackr python module on github is also updated.

The most significant changes:

The data returned is consistent and proper formatted everywhere

Error messages and result descriptions have improved

API is much better documented, with code examples

Code examples are with cURL, Python and PHP

All endpoints now have the same names in the python module

New endpoints available for suppliers, vulnerabilities and more

If you have specific requests for the API or questions on how to use it, please let us know :-)