Export and Import metrics configuration

Users can use export and import functions to back up configurations.

The exported file is in JSON format and contains all existing configurations and settings as displayed in the web UI.

Use case example

On Device #2, suppose a user wants to make the same configurations as Device #1.

The user can first export configurations from Device #1. Then go to Device #2 Web UI, import configurations using the exported file from the previous step. After successful import, the user will get the same configurations as Device #1.

NOTICE

Importing a configuration file will overwrite previous configurations. To avoid data loss, please backup (export) the configurations before importing.

Resetting configuration to default using an empty JSON file

There is a tip for quickly resetting to default by using an empty JSON file. Save below JSON as a file and import it. This resets all existing configurations to default.

{
    "configurations": [],
    "settings": {
        "flush": 5,
        "interval_sec": 60,
        "prometheus_username": "",
        "prometheus_password": ""
    }
}

Default global setting values are required in a configuration.

Upload Sample

{
    "configurations": [
        {
            "title": "System metrics - PostgreSQL",
            "description": "System metrics with PostgreSQL target",
            "datasources": [
                {
                    "appId": "System",
                    "appTitle": "System"
                }
            ],
            "metrics": [
                {
                    "name": "disk",
                    "instance": {
                        "name": "disk"
                    }
                }
            ],
            "destinations": [
                {
                    "id": "69f47912-daf4-489b-a81b-b11059c9b821",
                    "name": "pqsql",
                    "instance": {
                        "database": "fluentbit",
                        "host": "192.168.244.111",
                        "name": "pgsql",
                        "port": 5432,
                        "table": "fluentbit",
                        "user": "posgresql"
                    }
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "title": "API Config",
            "description": "This is a description text",
            "datasources": [
                {
                    "appId": "hI5FOxrLcRCQ7doCpoQTDLXTki8al5sI",
                    "appTitle": "tom-nginx"
                }
            ],
            "metrics": [
                {
                    "name": "cpuUsage",
                    "instance": {
                        "name": "cpuUsage"
                    }
                }
            ],
            "destinations": [
                {
                    "id": "1",
                    "name": "apitest",
                    "instance": {
                        "brokers": "192.168.1.3:9092,192.168.1.4:9092",
                        "dynamic_topic": "Off",
                        "format": "json",
                        "message_key": "msg",
                        "message_key_field": "msg",
                        "name": "kafka",
                        "queue_full_retries": 10,
                        "timestamp_format": "double",
                        "timestamp_key": "@timestamp",
                        "topic_key": "key",
                        "topics": "fluent-bit"
                    }
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "settings": {
        "flush": 5,
        "interval_sec": 60,
        "prometheus_username": "",
        "prometheus_password": ""
    }
}