This image shows the Metric microservice pipeline. It has the following components:
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On the left, the polled devices outside of Unified Assurance:
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On the right, a container representing Unified Assurance, containing:
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Poller microservices (Ciena MCP, Cisco Meraki, and others), reading metric data from their respective devices and publishing to the metric sink topic
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Apache Pulsar, with a topic for the metric sink
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Metric Sink, with two containers:
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Metric Sink container, reading metric data from the metric sink topic, translating it into a format understood by Telegraf, and sending the translated metrics on the local host within the pod to the Telegraf container
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Telegraf container, publishing the metrics to the Metric database.
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The Metric database
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The details of these components are described in the table that follows the image, and the flow is described in the text that follows the table.