General Receivers

The s3 data receiver connects to an Amazon S3 instance and reads files stored on it. Example: If we wanted to get CSV files with “station1” in the file name from the /data/test-data/multiple-files directory in our AWS S3 instance, our configurat...

The azure_data_lake data receiver connects to an Azure Data Lake Gen1 instance and reads files stored on it. Example: If we want to get all of the TSV files in the secret-directory of our Azure Data Lake instance, our configuration will look somet...

The azure_data_lake_gen2 data receiver connects to an Azure Data Lake Gen2 instance and reads files stored on it. Overview This connection will make use of the Azure Data Lake Gen 2 ADLS API. (Also referred to as “Storage Account”) ADLS is built...

The iothub data receiver reads data from the Azure Iot Hub with a built-in event hub endpoint. Metadata including application properties and the time that the data has been saved to the iot hub will be included. Example: { "data_receiver": ...

The enact data receiver connects to the Enact API for InfinityQS reads quality data available. Example: { "data_receiver": [ { "data_receiver_name": "my_enact_receiver", "protocol": "enact", "asset_tag": "process", ...

File receivers have configuration settings that can dictate the order of how files are retrieved and processed. This section will walk through the various combinations for a better understanding on when and how to use the settings. There are three p...

The ge_historian data receiver connects to and reads data from GE Proficy Historian APIs server. References: https://www.ge.com/digital/documentation/historian/version2023/r_managing_tags_apis.html https://www.ge.com/digital/documentation/his...

The mqtt data receiver retrieves data by subscribing to topics. Also includes support for sparkplug. MQTT Example: { "data_receiver_name": "my_mqtt_receiver", "protocol": "mqtt", "connections": [ { "host": "some-host.local", ...

The localfile data receiver fetches and reads files on the local system. Example: If we want to retrieve data from a local CSV file in /data/test-data/multiple-files, our configuration will look something like this: { "data_receiver": [ ...

The OPC UA data receiver connects to and reads data from an OPC UA server. The examples below show multiple ways of retrieving data from the OPCUA servers. (The polling method is deprecated and not shown) Example #1: Pubsub subscription: If we ...

The piweb_v1 data receiver loads tag metadata called “webid” and uses that information to load data within the PI Web API . Example : { "connections": [ { "base_url": "https://piwebserver.com/piwebapi", "start_datetime": "202...

The smb data receiver connects to a SMB filesystem, eg. from a Windows file share or a network-attached storage device, and reads files stored on it. Example : If we want to retrieve data for WeldingMachine_1 from all CSV files with names that st...

Connect Snowflake to Sight Machine Go to your device, and click on it. Click on the Create New Connection button on the top right corner, and select Snowflake receiver. In this page, you can choose the name you want to give to your receiver :...

The sql data receiver connects to SQL database and reads data stored in its tables. Example: If we want to retrieve Students data from a PostgreSQL database named p1 at localhost, our configuration file will look something like this: { "data...

The open_weather_api data receiver reads current weather data from the OpenWeather API . Example: If we want to receive weather information, our configuration will look like: { "data_receiver": [ { "data_receiver_name": ...