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Rodrigo Juan Hernández
Rodrigo Juan Hernández
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Rodrigo Juan Hernández

Rodrigo Juan Hernández is an electronic engineer passionate about IoT even before it existed. He has been working on tech for more than 18 years until now. For several years he has been focusing on the IoT ecosystem. He is currently giving consultation about IoT systems to clients around the world. He also produces content online about IoT and related subjects and the content is available on his blog, Youtube channel, and social networks - mainly LinkedIn. He also writes for companies that need good quality content about their products and services. His main objective nowadays is helping others to understand and implement IoT solutions.
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Ingesting data in OpenSearch

In this section, we will work around the system described in Figure 12.1. There, you can see data-ingesting components on the left of OpenSearch. On the other side, OpenSearch feeds Grafana dashboards:

Figure 12.1 – System architecture

You can ingest data in OpenSearch by sending PUT or POST HTTP requests. So, you can send data to OpenSearch from a script, using curl or some similar command.

In this section, you will learn how to implement a data ingestion pipeline for use in IoT systems. In this case, we will use Fluent Bit. Let’s see how to do it.

Fluent Bit

Fluent Bit is an open source log processor. It lets you gather data, process it, and send it to other systems, such as OpenSearch.

You can reach this project on Github at the following link: https://github.com/fluent/fluent-bit.

You can install Fluent Bit on several Linux distributions, several versions of Windows, and macOS. To see detailed instructions...

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Rodrigo Juan Hernández

Rodrigo Juan Hernández is an electronic engineer passionate about IoT even before it existed. He has been working on tech for more than 18 years until now. For several years he has been focusing on the IoT ecosystem. He is currently giving consultation about IoT systems to clients around the world. He also produces content online about IoT and related subjects and the content is available on his blog, Youtube channel, and social networks - mainly LinkedIn. He also writes for companies that need good quality content about their products and services. His main objective nowadays is helping others to understand and implement IoT solutions.
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