Pact Foundation

Hey there :wave: is there any documentation for what the `/metrics` endpoint response in the Pactflow api represents?
I’m curious about the values returned by fields like `verificationResults` and `providerContractSelfVerifications` and would like to know what the numbers actually mean, as they don’t seem to line up with what my assumptions would be

```  "verificationResults": { &lt;- regular pact provider verification
    "count": 11, &lt;- total number of provider verifications
    "successCount": 7, &lt;- ...of successful ones
    "failureCount": 4, &lt;- ...of failed ones
    "distinctCount": 11,
    "first": "2019-11-10T22:40:22+00:00", &lt;- first time a verification happened
    "last": "2023-07-27T04:56:38+00:00" &lt;- last time one happened
  },```

Now, this data is only reliable for all time, if it hasn’t been cleaned

PactFlow does clean tenant data, so old data can be removed that would make these numbers unreliable.

OSS Pact Broker has cleaning also

<https://docs.pact.io/pact_broker/administration/maintenance>

&gt;  providerContractSelfVerifications
these are, I think, effectively the number of provider contract publications with self verification results.

I’m also confused by this number in my tenant, because it differs from the `providerContractPublications` item, which seems unusual. It could be another artifact of the cleaning process.

We have insights and reporting as something on our backlog to significantly improve in PactFlow, because of the limitations of the above (and to be honest, they are fairly crude metrics)

Thanks for the clarification Matt :simple_smile: yeah if cleaning can modify the metrics that probably means we can’t rely on them too much
Looking forward to seeing what you’ve got planned :smile: