Creating Source Types
Source Types define how a particular kind of data is split, annotated, and indexed so that it can be searched using IBM® Operations Analytics - Log Analysis. You must create a Source Type before you can create a Data Source.
Before you begin
Before you create a Source Type,
you must complete the following prerequisite tasks:
- You must create an Insight Pack Eclipse project.
- You must also define the Rule Sets or File Sets that are used to split and annotate the Source Type that you are creating.
- You must define an index configuration. The index configuration determines how data of that Source Type is indexed. Index configuration is specified using JSON configuration notation.
Note: If you manually edit the metadata\sourcetypes.json for
a project that you have opened in the Log Analysis Insight Pack Tooling,
any changes you make are not displayed and are overwritten by changes
made within the Tooling.