How can I use the UUID API?
I assume what you want to know is how to generate a UUID in Drupal 8, because there's really not much else that you can do ;)

Entities all have an UUID automatically, so if you store your data as a config or content entity, you just have to define the uuid entity key.

To generate a UUID yourself, you need the uuid service:

$uuid = \Drupal::service('uuid');
$uuid-&gt;generate();
$uuid-&gt;isValid($uuid_to_validate);