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2014-10-05 DigitalOcean tcpdump?

Lately I have been working on implementing v2 of DigitalOcean's API. While doing that I ran a query to get all actions on my account. I discovered that the result by default is paginated with 25 results on each page.

I re-ran the query but asking for up to 1000 results. While inspecting the result to see if I did get all 87 results this time I discovered this odd-looking action:

{
  "id":XXX,
  "status":"completed",
  "type":"tcpdump",
  "started_at":"2014-04-28T08:26:51Z",
  "completed_at":"2014-04-28T08:28:00Z",
  "resource_id":YYY,
  "resource_type":"droplet",
  "region":"ams1"
}

The type field has the value tcpdump. To my knowledge I have never initiated a tcpdump on any of my droplets, and I didn't think it was possible. In fact, I haven't been able to verify that it is or has been possible at all!

I'm still happy with DigitalOcean, although this looks a bit suspicious - I have no idea why they would run a tcpdump on my droplet.