Forward data to Lindorm Time Series Database

Limits

• Data can be forwarded only within a region. For example, you can only forward data from an IoT Platform instance that is deployed in the Japan (Tokyo) region to a TSDB instance that is deployed in the Japan (Tokyo) region.
• You can forward data only to a TSDB instance that is deployed in a VPC.
• You can forward data only in the JSON format.
• Only TSDB is supported. Time Series Database for InfluxDB® and Ganos are not supported.
• In the forwarded messages, all fields are written to TSDB as the metric, except for the fields that are configured as the timestamp and tag value. The data types of the metric parameter support numeric and string. If you use other data types, data may fail to be written to the database.

Procedure

1. Log on to the IoT Platform console.
2. On the Overview page, find the instance and click the instance name to go to the Instance Details page.
   Notice Enterprise Edition instances are available only in the Japan (Tokyo) region. If your IoT Platform is not activated in the Japan (Tokyo) region, skip this step.

   
3. In the left-side navigation pane, choose Rules Engine > Data Forwarding.
4. Click View next to the rule that you want to manage. The Data Forwarding Rule page appears.
   Notice If the new version of the Data Forwarding page is displayed, you must click Back to Previous Version in the upper-right corner, and then click View in the Actions column corresponding to the rule that you want to manage.
5. In the Forward Data section, click Add Operation.
6. In the Add Operation dialog box, select Store Data to TSDB from the Operation drop-down list. Follow the instructions on the page to set other parameters and click OK.

   Parameter	Description
   Operation	Select Store Data to TSDB.
   Region	The region where your IoT Platform instance is deployed: Japan (Tokyo)
   TSDB Instance	Specify the TSDB instance in the VPC that you have created as the destination to which data is forwarded.
   metric Data Type	Specify the data type of the metric parameter. Valid values: Numeric Type and String. Click the icon to obtain more information.
   timestamp	Timestamp. The following configurations are supported: Use an escape character expression ${}. For example, set the parameter to ${time}. This specifies that the parameter value corresponds to the value of the time field in the message in the data source topic. Use the rules engine function timestamp(). This specifies that the parameter value is set to the timestamp of the rules engine server. Enter a value. The input value must be a UNIX timestamp. For example, you can enter 1404955893000.
   Tag Name	Specify the tag name that is used to identify data. The tag name can contain letters, digits, and the following special characters: :,.'/-_()[]
   Tag Value	Specify the value of the tag. The following configurations are supported: Use an escape character expression ${}. For example, if the structure of a message in a data source topic contains a location property whose key is city, you can set the tag value to ${city}. This specifies that the parameter value corresponds to the value of the city field in the message. We recommend that you use this configuration. Use the functions specified in the rules engine, such as deviceName(). This specifies that the tag value is the name of the device. For more information about the supported functions, see Functions. Enter a constant. For example, you can enter the constant beijing. The value can contain letters, digits, and the following special characters: :,.'/-_()[] Note You can add a maximum of eight tag names and eight tag values. Make sure that TSDB can obtain the configured tag names and tag values. If TSDB cannot obtain the name or value of a tag, the data cannot be written to the database.
   Role	Grant IoT Platform the permissions to write data to TSDB.

7. Go to the Data Forwarding page, find the rule that you managed, and then click Start in the Actions column of the rule.

Data forwarding examples

The following code block provides a sample SQL statement in the data forwarding rule:

SELECT time,city,power,distance FROM "/alprodu****/myDevice/user/update";

The following section shows how the rules engine processes data and writes data to TSDB based on the SQL statement.

1. The sample SQL statement shows that the rules engine filters the time, city, power, and distance fields from the messages in the /alprodu****/myDevice/user/update topic and uses the content of the filtered fields as the content of the message to forward.

   The following example shows the content of the message to forward after data is processed based on the preceding SQL statement:

   {
   "time": 1513677897,
   "city": "beijing",
   "distance": 8545,
   "power": 93.0
   }

2. The rules engine writes two rows of data to TSDB based on the configured data forwarding operation.

   In the example, the following data is written to TSDB:

   • Data: timestamp:1513677897, [metric:power value:93.0]
     tag: cityName=beijing

   • Data: timestamp:1513677897, [metric:distance value:8545]
     tag: cityName=beijing

   The following section describes how data is written to TSDB:

   In the preceding forwarded messages, except for the time field that is configured as the timestamp and the city field that is configured as the tag value, other fields (power and distance) are written to TSDB as the metric.