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Dumping Data to the Current Account

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. This topic describes how to dump data to the current account.

Constraints

  • An account can create up to 20 data dump tasks.
  • The data dump function 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.
    Figure 1 Adding a dump task
    Table 1 Dump task parameters

    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 monitored objects of the selected service will be dumped to Kafka.
    • If ECSs is selected, metrics of this dimension will be dumped to 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

    Destination

    Destination location for saving dumped data.You can select Current account or Other account. In this section, Current account is used as an example.

    Current account

    Project Name

    IAM project name of the account for saving dumped data.

    -

    Kafka

    Name of the Kafka instance where metric data is dumped to.

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

    -

    Topic

    Name of the topic to which data is dumped.

    If no topic is available, see 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.

Parent Topic: Data Dump