The Setup..

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When adding a net new data source to Metron, the first step is to decide how to push the events from the new telemetry data source into Metron. You can use a number of data collection tools and that decision is decoupled from Metron. However, we recommend evaluating Apache Nifi as it is an excellent tool to do just that (this article uses Nifi to push data into Metron). The second step is to configure Metron to parse the telemetry data source so that downstream processing can be done on it. In this article we will walk you through how to perform both of these steps.

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