Dumping Data to the Current Account

Constraints

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

Prerequisites

Ensure that your account has the Security Administrator permissions, or a message indicating abnormal permissions will be displayed. In this case, you need to contact the account administrator to grant the permissions.

Procedure

1. Log in to the Cloud Eye console.

2. In the navigation pane, choose Data Dump.
3. Click Add Dump Task in the upper right corner.
4. On the Add Dump Task page, configure parameters by referring to Table 1.
   Figure 1 Adding a dump task
   

   Table 1 Parameters for configuring a dump task

   Parameter	Description	Example Value
   Name	Name of the data dump task. The system generates a random name, which you can modify. The name can include 1 to 64 characters and contain 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 each service, see their documents. You can access the documents via references listed on Cloud Product Metrics. For details about dimensions, see Dimensions. 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
   Destination	Destination location for saving dumped data. You can select Current account or Other account.	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 Kafka Topic.	-

5. Click Add after the configuration is complete.
   

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

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