Spire DELAYED Vessels API & Maritime 2.0 GraphQL API update for Vessel ID Values 2023-01-09
Scheduled Maintenance Report for Spire Global
Completed
This maintenance is being delayed to allow further testing and integration by key partners. Potential release date 2 weeks later on 2023-01-23 but this will be confirmed in the next week.
Posted Jan 04, 2023 - 14:31 UTC
Update
We will be undergoing scheduled maintenance during this time.
Posted Jan 04, 2023 - 14:28 UTC
Scheduled
Spire Maritime Vessels API & Maritime 2.0 GraphQL API will be updated on 2023-01-09 at 10:00 UTC
 
This release implements stable Vessel ID values. 
 
Since launch of the Maritime 2.0 graphQL API in Oct 2021 each new iteration of vessel processing logic has caused the vessel ID values to change. We recognise that this is undesirable behaviour that can cause disruption to some processes.

This is the last time we expect the vessel ID values to change and after this release we expect these to be stable.

The exception being vessels which change MMSI, the new instance of the vessel will still get a new vessel ID value, allowing the history of MMSI values reported by a vessel to be retrieved via different vessel ID values.
 
For customers with systems based around the use of vessel ID values returned by the APIs, we can provide files of OLD and NEW ID value combinations to prepare for the data transition. If this is something that would be helpful to you then please let us know by emailing sales.engineering@spire.com 

Kind Regards
Spire Maritime, Customer Support
Posted Dec 02, 2022 - 15:11 UTC
This scheduled maintenance affected: Maritime 2.0, Sense Cloud - Vessels API, and Sense Cloud - Historical Positions API.