Object Storage User Agent Version

[MatzeB]

Hi Team,

we offer an S3 object storage as an provider for our customers.
For different reasons we make queries which client is connecting with which software product and version.
We need this for analysies as well as "value add" for example to give customer hints to upgrade etc.

All software products we seen are sending the exact version number/build of their product - but not Veeam.
For example
Veeam 12.0 / 12.1 / 12.2 etc are all sending 12.0
Veeam M365 7.X is sending 7.0

I would really like to see the same behaviour than any other software - send the current version number.
Would be nice to get feedback why you do it like this and if you plan to change this.




Regards
Matze

[veremin]

We added support for the user agent string quite some time ago and decided then to update it with each major version of the product. The exact reasons for this decision are hard to recall now, given how long ago it was made.

However, thank you for your feedback; we will consider the possibility of including the exact product version in the user agent string, not just the major part, in the future.

[MatzeB]

Thanks for your feedback, looks like a historic decision

I think differently, the other way around, why would it be bad to always give the exact build number here.
I think that could be an added value for one or the other and if not, it doesn't hurt.

Practice example:
I think with the release of 12.2 it was announced that there were some optimizations regarding object storage, especially fewer API calls, we tried to track this for customers who have already updated, it would be helpfull for analysis.

Matze

[Gostev]

The exact reasons for this decision are hard to recall now, given how long ago it was made.

I remember the reason: changing user agent would mess up consumption reporting we get from the Azure side for months. And since we're releasing new minor releases every few months, we would end up with no reliable reporting... permanently

I don't know how important is this reporting these days, but it was extremely important for the company in the early days of object storage adoption.