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Introduction to IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps gRPC (Remote Procedure Call) Connectors.
If you are new to IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps, your first question is: How do we ingest data into AIOps? The answer is there are various ways to ingest data, and one of the method is using connectors.
Simply put, a connector is an integration between AIOps and a particular data source. AI Manager can connect to multiple, diverse data sources at multiple levels of your IT infrastructure using connectors. In this topic, I am going to give a brief introduction to gRPC connectors. This is a data flow diagram of the connectors:
AIOPs developers published a connector SDK that can be used to create new connectors. You can find more details in: https://github.com/IBM/cp4waiops-connectors. The repository provides more in-depth technical information, template source code as well as an example connector. You can also use the Java connector template if you would like to start developing a Java based connector. Although the preferred programming model is via OpenLiberty, any gRPC compatible model such as NodeJs can also be used to develop a connector.