Configuring integration with external Kafka and Predictive Insights

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Integrate Predictive Insights and external Kafka that contains the metric data available from Telco Network Cloud Manager - Performance timeseries database. The data that is available in the Kafka topic depends on the configuration on the Exporter Service.

Before you begin

The data in the Kafka topic must conform to the following requirements:

The data must be in Predictive Insights compatible format. For more information, see JSON file for REST Mediation service.
Specify a tenant identifier with each message. The tenant identifier is used later to map to a topic name in Predictive Insights. For more information, see Configuring integration with Kafka.

Procedure

On Predictive Insights server, configure the following settings in mediation_spark_datestamp/config/config.properties:


kafka.metadata.broker.list=myserver1.ibm.com:9092
kafka.zookeeper.connect=myserver1.ibm.com:2181
kafka.metric.topic.name=NPI

For more information, see Configuring integration with Kafka on IBM® Knowledge Center.