Prerequisites and installation requirements

This chapter introduces many concepts that are used in the kensu-py open source library. If you want to follow how the log file was generated, please refer to the notebook in this book’s GitHub repository, in the chapter 4 section.

If you are familiar with Python and want to run the example by yourself, we advise you to create a virtual environment; see https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html for more details.

To install the necessary libraries for this chapter, run pip install –r requirements.txt in this book’s repository’s directory.

Kensu – a data observability framework

In this chapter, we will be working with an open source library called Kensu. It is a Python library that interacts with data transformation libraries to generate observations and send them to the Kensu platform.

Kensu allows you to collect and process data observations through the Kensu platform. You can try out the...