Transferring data from elasticsearch to influx - elasticsearch

I am trying to send data from Elasticsearch to Influxdb. Is there any other way to do this except writing plugins and configuration files. I am new to both these databases, and trying to understand the overall picture.
Also, am I right in understanding that Kapacitor processes influx data and then sends it to Kafka for streaming? Or should I stream data using Kapacitor only?
I am trying to learn all these new technologies in as short time frame, and all the new terminologies have got me confused. Thanks for your time and help.

ElasticSearch is a search engine, not a database. InfluxDB is a time series data. I did't understand why you need to transfer data from search results to a time series database.
Kapacitor can process data in 2 different ways. Either in batch mode or in streaming mode. Assume some application streaming sensor data(or some time series data) to InfluxDb. You can set Kapacitor to process that data as soon it is available in InfluxDB by setting kapacitor in streaming mode. Or in case you need to process data from InfluxDB every 2 hour, you can configure that job as batch job. Once you process the data, Kapacitor can persist the data in InfluxDB. Or in case you need to stream the data to Kafka, Kpacitor has a Kafka plugin. Please note Kapacitor has more plugins than I mentioned in my answer.

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How do I achieve Change Data Capture in CnosDB

I am migrating some of the IoT data from MySQL to CnosDB and then replicate some of the anomalies and also the changes/delta of the change to ClickHouse for further analysis.
Currently I have to do full replication (similar to full backup). Is there an easy way to just replicate the change data from CnosDB to ClickHouse. FYI. I am using the Kafka in the middle to stream the data.

Difference between using Filebeat and Logstash to push log file to Elasticsearch

I am trying out the ELK to visualise my log file. I have tried different setups:
Logstash file input plugin https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-inputs-file.html
Logstash Beats input plugin https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-inputs-beats.html with Filebeat Logstash output https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/logstash-output.html
Filebeat Elasticsearch output https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/elasticsearch-output.html
Can someone list out their differences and when to use which setup? If it is not for here, please point me to the right place like Super User or DevOp or Server Fault.
1) To use logstash file input you need a logstash instance running on the machine from where you want to collect the logs, if the logs are on the same machine that you are already running logstash this is not a problem, but if the logs are on remote machines, a logstash instance is not always recommended because it needs more resources than filebeat.
2 and 3) For collecting logs on remote machines filebeat is recommended since it needs less resources than a logstash instance, you would use the logstash output if you want to parse your logs, add or remove fields or make some enrichment on your data, if you don't need to do anything like that you can use the elasticsearch output and send the data directly to elasticsearch.
This is the main difference, if your logs are on the same machine that you are running logstash, you can use the file input, if you need to collect logs from remote machines, you can use filebeat and send it to logstash if you want to make transformations on your data, or send directly to elasticsearch if you don't need to make transformations on your data.
Another advantage of using filebeat, even on the logstash machine, is that if your logstash instance is down, you won't lose any logs, filebeat will resend the events, using the file input you can lose events in some cases.
An additional point for large scale application is that if you have a lot of Beat (FileBeat, HeartBeat, MetricBeat...) instances, you would not want them altogether open connection and sending data directly to Elasticsearch instance at the same time.
Having too many concurrent indexing connections may result in a high bulk queue, bad responsiveness and timeouts. And for that reason in most cases, the common setup is to have Logstash placed between Beat instances and Elasticsearch to control the indexing.
And for larger scale system, the common setup is having a buffering message queue (Apache Kafka, Rabbit MQ or Redis) between Beats and Logstash for resilency to avoid congestion on Logstash during event spikes.
Figures are captured from Logz.io. They also have a good
article on this topic.
Not really familiar with (2).
But,
Logstash(1) is usually a good choice to take a content play around with it using input/output filters, match it to your analyzers, then send it to Elasticsearch.
Ex.
You point the Logstash to your MySql which takes a row modify the data (maybe do some math on it, then Concat some and cut out some words then send it to ElasticSearch as processed data).
As for Logbeat(2), it's a perfect choice to pick up an already processed data and pass it to elasticsearch.
Logstash (as the name clearly states) is mostly good for log files and stuff like that. usually you can do tiny changes to those.
Ex. I have some log files in my servers (incl errors, syslogs, process logs..)
Logstash listens to those files, automatically picks up new lines added to it and sends those to Elasticsearch.
Then you can filter some things in elasticsearch and find what's important to you.
p.s: logstash has a really good way of load balancing too many data to ES.
You can now use filebeat to send logs to elasticsearch directly or logstash (without a logstash agent, but still need a logstash server of course).
Main advantage is that logstash will allow you to custom parse each line of the logs...whereas filebeat alone will simply send the log and there is not much separation of fields.
Elasticsearch will still index and store the data.

oracle to oracle data pipeline using apache nifi

in our project we load data from one database(oracle) to another database(oracle) and run some batch level analytics to it.
as of now it is done via pl/sql jobs where we are pulling 3 years of data into destination db..
i have got a task to automate the flow using APache nifi..
cluster info:
1. APache hadoop cluster of 5 nodes
2. all the softwares are open source being used.
i have tried creating a flow where i am using a processor queryDatabaseTable -> putDatabaseRecord. but as far as i know that queryDatabaseTable outputs avro format..
i request to suggest me how to convert and what should be the processors sequence also i need to handle incremental loads/Change data capture. kindly suggest.
thanks in advance :)
PutDatabaseRecord configured with an Avro reader will be able to read the Avro produced by QueryDatabaseTable.

Delete data in source once data has been pushed to kafka server

I'm using confluent platform 3.3 to pull data from Oracle database. Once the data has been pushed to kafka server the retrieved data should be deleted in the database.
Are there any way to do it ? Please suggest.
There is no default way of doing this with Kafka.
How are you reading your data from the database, using Kafka Connect, or with custom code that you wrote?
If the latter is the case I'd suggest implementing the delete in your code, collect ids once Kafka has confirmed send and batch delete regularly.
Alternatively you could write a small job that reads your Kafka topic with a different consumer group than your actual target system and deletes based on the records it pulls from the topic. If you run this job every few minutes, hours,... you can keep up with the sent data as well.

Influx Db in Jmeter

I read the documentation , though I would like to gain more knowledge and usage of Influx DB how much worth before start using.
Can some one explain in detail on the below questions.
1.What is the use of Influx Db backed listener in jmeter.
2.What is the difference Influx Db backed listener Vs Graphs Generator?
3.What are steps involved installation and configuration of Influx Database on Windows?
4.Along with the Influx Db do we need to install and configure anything else?
5.How can we send the whole dashboard to the team generated from the Influx db.
6.I appreciate If you provide the detailed steps involved from #1 to # 5.
Thanks,
Raj
InfluxDB is a time-series db (a light-weight db used to store time dependant data such as a Performance Test).
Using InfluxDB along with Grafana you can monitor certain test metrics live during a JMeter test and can also configure other system metrics to be collected and monitored (cpu/network/memory).
To store data into InfluxDB, you need to configure the Graphite configuration within JMeter (see Real-Time results). Then you can add a Backend listener to throw this into the DB.
For InfluxDB installation on Windows read this answer.
As for the Dashboard, I guess you need to use Grafana to see the expected test live metrics in a graphical format.

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