diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index db4341f0..8c1be20f 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1462,6 +1462,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "time 0.2.26",
  "tokio",
  "url",
+ "uuid",
  "warp10",
  "windows",
 ]
@@ -2013,6 +2014,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "uuid"
+version = "1.2.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "feb41e78f93363bb2df8b0e86a2ca30eed7806ea16ea0c790d757cf93f79be83"
+dependencies = [
+ "getrandom 0.2.3",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "vcpkg"
 version = "0.2.11"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index a99cfd6e..b1b596c2 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ hyper = { version = "0.14.23", features = ["full"], optional = true }
 tokio = { version = "1", features = ["full"], optional = true}
 elasticsearch = "8.5.0-alpha.1"
 url = { version = "2", features = ["serde"] }
+uuid = { version = "1.2.1", features = ["v4"] }
 
 [target.'cfg(target_os="linux")'.dependencies]
 procfs = { version = "0.12.0" }