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When you add a 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. An excellent tool for pushing data into Metron is Apache NiFi which this section will describe how to use. 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.

In the previous section, Setting up a Use Case, we described the following set of requirements for Customer Foo who wanted to add the Squid telemetry data source into Metron.

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