Measurements

available when adding a measurement are the following fieldsets general name description the name of the measurement must be unique! description description a description of your measurement (optional) collector description the collector this measurement belongs to selecting a collector might make more fields and settings appear database description the database where this measurement's data will be stored this might be prefilled if the selected collector has a default database datatype description the type of this measurements data eg string, number, boolean, etc engineering specifications the engineering specifications can be used to give more meaning the values and set limits on them furthermore, the factry historian datasource plugin will automatically fetch these settings for labeling of axes, scaling, and configuring thresholds uom description the unit of measurement of this measurement (optional) valuemin description the minimum expected value of the measurement (optional) valuemax description the maximum expected value of the measurement (optional) limitlo description the low threshold of the measurement (optional) limithi description the high threshold of the measurement (optional) tags description tags will be stored for every data point written to the time series database in most cases, we recommended using labels instead metadata description metadata can be used to store additional information about the measurement, this information is not stored in the time series database labels description labels can be used to group measurements together and can be used to selective forward measurements using creating a sink docid\ y4kz8um7h731s4hdh0n1y and creating a forwarder docid\ xalp36b2qlv9pdgo83p4c a measurement can have multiple labels