ctrlX Data Layer and Clickhouse Integration
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Input and output integration overview
<p>The ctrlX plugin is designed to gather data seamlessly from the ctrlX Data Layer middleware, widely used in industrial automation.</p>
<p>Telegraf’s SQL plugin sends collected metrics to an SQL database using a straightforward table schema and dynamic column generation. When configured for ClickHouse, it adjusts DSN formatting and type conversion settings to ensure seamless data integration.</p>
Integration details
ctrlX Data Layer
<p>The ctrlX Telegraf plugin provides a means to gather data from the ctrlX Data Layer, a communication middleware designed for professional automation applications. This plugin allows users to connect to ctrlX CORE devices, enabling the collection and monitoring of various metrics related to industrial and building automation, robotics, and IoT. The configuration options allow for detailed specifications of connection settings, subscription properties, and sampling rates, facilitating effective integration with the ctrlX Data Layer to meet customized monitoring needs, while leveraging the unique capabilities of the ctrlX platform.</p>
Clickhouse
<p>Telegraf’s SQL plugin is engineered to write metric data into an SQL database by dynamically creating tables and columns based on incoming metrics. When configured for ClickHouse, it utilizes the clickhouse-go v1.5.4 driver, which employs a unique DSN format and a set of specialized type conversion rules to map Telegraf’s data types directly to ClickHouse’s native types. This approach ensures optimal storage and retrieval performance in high-throughput environments, making it well-suited for real-time analytics and large-scale data warehousing. The dynamic schema creation and precise type mapping enable detailed time-series data logging, crucial for monitoring modern, distributed systems.</p>
Configuration
ctrlX Data Layer
Clickhouse
Input and output integration examples
ctrlX Data Layer
<ol> <li> <p><strong>Industrial Automation Monitoring</strong>: Utilize this plugin to continuously monitor key performance indicators from a manufacturing system controlled by ctrlX CORE devices. By subscribing to specific data nodes that provide real-time metrics such as resource availability or machine uptime, manufacturers can dynamically adjust their operations for increased efficiency and minimal downtime.</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>Energy Consumption Analysis</strong>: Collect energy consumption data from IoT-enabled ctrlX CORE platforms in a smart building setup. By analyzing trends and patterns in energy use, facility managers can optimize operating strategies, reduce energy costs, and support sustainability initiatives, making informed decisions about resource allocation and predictive maintenance.</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>Predictive Maintenance for Robotics</strong>: Gather telemetry data from robotics applications deployed in warehousing environments. By monitoring vibration, temperature, and operational parameters in real-time, organizations can predict equipment failures before they occur, leading to reduced maintenance costs and enhanced robotic system uptime through timely interventions.</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>Cross-Platform Data Integration</strong>: Connect data gathered from ctrlX CORE devices into a centralized Cloud data warehouse using this plugin. By streaming real-time metrics to other systems, organizations can create a unified view of operational performance across various manufacturing and operational systems, enabling data-driven decision-making across diverse platforms.</p> </li> </ol>
Clickhouse
<ol> <li> <p><strong>Real-Time Analytics for High-Volume Data</strong>: Use the plugin to feed streaming metrics from large-scale systems into ClickHouse. This setup supports ultra-fast query performance and near real-time analytics, ideal for monitoring high-traffic applications.</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>Time-Series Data Warehousing</strong>: Integrate the plugin with ClickHouse to create a robust time-series data warehouse. This use case allows organizations to store detailed historical metrics and perform complex queries for trend analysis and capacity planning.</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>Scalable Monitoring in Distributed Environments</strong>: Leverage the plugin to dynamically create tables per metric type in ClickHouse, making it easier to manage and query data from a multitude of distributed systems without prior schema definitions.</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>Optimized Storage for IoT Deployments</strong>: Deploy the plugin to ingest data from IoT sensors into ClickHouse. Its efficient schema creation and native type mapping facilitate the handling of massive volumes of data, enabling real-time monitoring and predictive maintenance.</p> </li> </ol>
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Powerful Performance, Limitless Scale
Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-velocity data. Any data is more valuable when you think of it as time series data. with InfluxDB, the #1 time series platform built to scale with Telegraf.
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