Adding a Dump Task

Scenarios

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.

Procedure

1. Log in to the management console.
2. Click Service List in the upper left corner and select Cloud Eye.
3. In the navigation pane, choose Data Dump.
4. Click Add Dump Task.
5. In the Add Dump Task dialog box, configure parameters.
   Figure 1 Creating a dump task
   

   Table 1 Dump task parameters

   Parameter	Description
   Name	Specifies the dump task name. The name can contain 1 to 128 characters and consist of only letters, digits, underscores (_), and hyphens (-). Example value: dataShareJob-ECSMetric
   Resource Type	Specifies the type of resources monitored by Cloud Eye. Example value: Elastic Cloud Server
   Dimension	Specifies the dimension of the monitored object. For details, see Metrics and Dimension on the monitoring metric description page. 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. Example value: All
   Monitoring Scope	The scope can only be All resources, indicating that all metrics of the specified monitored object will be dumped to DMS for Kafka.
   Resource Type	The type can only be Distributed Message Service for Kafka.
   Destination	Specifies the Kafka instance and topic where the data is to be dumped. If no Kafka instance or topic is available, see Buying a Kafka Instance and Creating a Kafka Topic.

6. Click Add after the configuration is complete.
   

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