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Werk #13987: job: replace useless start time metric with job age

Component Checks & agents
Title job: replace useless start time metric with job age
Date May 23, 2022
Level Trivial Change
Class Bug Fix
Compatibility Compatible - no manual interaction needed
Checkmk versions & editions
2.2.0b1 Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate, Checkmk Ultimate MT
2.1.0p1 Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate MT
2.0.0p25 Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate MT

The check plugin job, which monitors cronjobs running with mk-job, produced a useless metric measuring the unix time stamp at which the job had been started. This metric has now been replaced with a new metric job age, which measures the actual age of the job.

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