Updated on 2025-08-19 GMT+08:00

Dumping Data

You can dump cloud service monitoring data to DMS for Kafka in real time and query the metrics on the DMS for Kafka console or using an open-source Kafka client.

Constraints

  • You can create a maximum of 20 data dump tasks per account.
  • Data dump is available only for whitelisted customers.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the Cloud Eye console.
  1. In the navigation pane, choose Data Dump.
  2. Click Add Dump Task in the upper right corner.
  3. On the Add Dump Task page, configure parameters.
    Table 1 Parameters for configuring a dump task

    Parameter

    Description

    Example Value

    Name

    Name of the data dump task. The system generates a name randomly, and you can change it as you want.

    The name can contain 1 to 64 characters and consist of only letters, digits, underscores (_), and hyphens (-).

    dataShareJob-ECSMetric

    Resource Type

    Type of resources monitored by Cloud Eye.

    Elastic Cloud Server

    Dimension

    This parameter is used to filter specified monitoring data.

    For details about the dimensions of monitored objects of each service, see Cloud Product Metrics.

    For example, if Resource Type is set to Elastic Cloud Server, the dimensions can be:

    • If All is selected, all metrics of the selected service will be dumped to DMS for Kafka.
    • If ECSs is selected, ECS metrics will be dumped to DMS for Kafka.

    All

    Monitoring Scope

    Dimension of the monitored object. The scope can only be All resources, indicating that all metrics of the specified monitored object will be dumped to DMS for Kafka.

    All resources

    Resource Type

    Destination cloud service of the dumped data. Currently, data can be dumped only to DMS for Kafka.

    DMS for Kafka

    Project Name

    IAM project name of the account for saving dumped data.

    -

    Destination

    Kafka instance and topic where the metric data is to be dumped.

    If no Kafka instance is available, see Buying a Kafka Instance and Creating a Topic.

    -

  4. Click Add after the configuration is complete.

    You can query the dumped data in Kafka. For details, see Viewing Kafka Messages.