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About Collectors
Collectors are extractors that are developed and managed by you (A customer of K).
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You can download the latest Core Library and whl via Platform Settings → Sources → Download Collectors
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You can request the whl from the Kada support team (support@kada.ai).
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From 5.33 (Late October 2023) you can download the whl directly from the Platform |
Run the following command to install the collector.
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The collector requires a set of parameters to connect to and extract metadata from Postgres.
FIELD | FIELD TYPE | DESCRIPTION | EXAMPLE |
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host | string | Postgres host as per what was onboarded in the K platform, generally we onboard it as the same value as server, but if you did it differently, use that value | “example.postgres.localhost” |
server | string | Postgres host to establish a connection | “example.postgres.localhost” |
username | string | Username to log into Postgres | “postgres_user” |
password | string | Password to log into the Postgres | |
databases | list<string> | A list of databases to extract from Postgres | [“dwh”, “adw”] |
port | integer | Postgres port, general default is 5432 | 5432 |
output_path | string | Absolute path to the output location where files are to be written | “/tmp/output” |
mask | boolean | To enable masking or not | true |
compress | boolean | To gzip the output or not | true |
meta_only | boolean | To extract metadata only or not, note as of this current version only metadata can be extracted regardless of this value | true |
These parameters can be added directly into the run or you can use pass the parameters in via a JSON file. The following is an example you can use that is included in the example run code below.
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