From a3bbba0a3decb35d7a81ac524ff9bd6ce9bae887 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Markus=20M=C3=A4kel=C3=A4?= <markus.makela@mariadb.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2019 10:23:38 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Update REST API ETag documentation

The ETag docuemntation did not mention what sort of changes triggered ETag
updates.
---
 Documentation/REST-API/API.md | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/REST-API/API.md b/Documentation/REST-API/API.md
index ddb0e2aac..fc4ac0dd1 100644
--- a/Documentation/REST-API/API.md
+++ b/Documentation/REST-API/API.md
@@ -229,7 +229,9 @@ English and it uses the server's local timezone.
 #### ETag
 
 An identifier for a specific version of a resource. The value of this header
-changes whenever a resource is modified.
+changes whenever a resource is modified via the REST API. It will not change if
+an internal MaxScale event (e.g. server changing state or statistics being
+updated) causes a change.
 
 When the client sends the `If-Match` or `If-None-Match` header, the provided
 value should be the value of the `ETag` header of an earlier GET.