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Now that we have Metron configured to parse, index and persist telemetry events and Nifi pushing data to Metron, lets now visualize this streaming telemetry data in the Metron UI. We will be adding 3 new panels to visualize the Squid Events: Histogram Panel, Count Panel and Detail Panel

 

Table of Contents

Step 1: Setup and

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Prerequisites

  1. You should have completed the instructions in Adding a new Telemetry Data Source
  2. Make sure the following variables are configured based on your environment: 


    KAFKA_HOST = host where a Kafka broker is installed
    ZOOKEEPER_HOST = host where a Zookeeper server is installed
    PROBE_HOST = Host where your sensor, probes are installed. If don't have any sensors installed, pick the host where a storm supervisor is running
    SQUID_HOST = Host where you want to install SQUID. If you don't care, just install on the PROBE_HOST
    NIFI_HOST = The host where you will install NIFI. You want this this to be same host that you installed Squid.
    HOST_WITH_ENRICHMENT_TAG = This is the host in your inventory hosts file that you put under the group "enrichment" 
    SEARCH_HOST = This is the host where you have elastic or solr running. This is the host in your inventory hosts file that you put under the group "search". Pick one of the search hosts
    SEARCH_HOST_PORT = The port of the search host where indexing is configured. (e.g: 9300)
    METRON_UI_HOST = This is the host where your metron ui web application is running. This is the host in your inventory hosts file that you put under the group "web".
    METRON_VERSION = The release of the metron binaries you are working with (e.g: 0.2.0BETA-RC2)

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