Sinks

when creating a sink, the following fields are available general name description enter a unique name description description optionally enter a description (optional) sink typ e description select a sink type sparkplugb nodeid description enter a nodeid to connect to groupid description enter a groupid to connect to mqtturl description enter the url of the mqtt broker to connect to clientcertificatefile description enter the client certificate file location if applicable clientkeyfile description enter the client key file location if applicable username description enter the username password description enter the password keepalivesecs description enter the keep alive period (in seconds) default 30 maxmetricspermessage description optionally, enter the max amount of metrics to send per message by default this is set to 0, which means no limit (optional) default 0 sendrebirth description optionally toggle dataonly mode when enabled no birth or death messages will be sent, only data messages will be sent (optional) default enabled enablebuffer description optionally enable the buffer, if enabled, the sink will buffer messages when the mqtt broker is not reachable (optional) default disabled bufferprocessinterval description process interval (in milliseconds) the interval at which the buffer is processed (optional) default 250 buffermaxbatchsize description the maximum number of messages in a batch, the batch size determines how many messages are sent in one go (optional) default 5000 buffermaxbatches description max batches the maximum amount of batches to keep in memory, when the maximum is reached a batch will be saved to disk if the disk queue is enabled and there is space available (optional) default 30 bufferdiskbatches description disk batches the maximum amount of batches to write to a single file on disk (optional) default 100 bufferminfreediskspace description min free disk space the minimum amount of free disk space required to write a batch to disk, if the free disk space is below this value, the sink will not write batches to disk and will drop batches instead (optional) default 2gb buffermaxdiskspace description max disk space the maximum amount of disk space to use for the buffer, if the maximum is reached, the sink will drop batches instead of writing them to disk (optional) default 0mb bufferenablediskqueue description enable disk queue if enabled batches will be written to disk when the maximum amount of batches in memory is reached or the application is stopped (optional) default disabled generic mqtt mqtturl description enter the url of the mqtt broker to connect to clientcertificatefile description enter the client certificate file location if applicable clientkeyfile description enter the client key file location if applicable username description enter the username password description enter the password qos description enter the qos with which to publish default 1 keepalivesecs description enter the keep alive period(in seconds) default 30 enablebuffer description optionally enable the buffer, if enabled, the sink will buffer messages when the mqtt broker is not reachable default disabled bufferprocessinterval description process interval (in milliseconds) the interval at which the buffer is processed (optional) default 250 buffermaxbatchsize description the maximum number of messages in a batch, the batch size determines how many messages are sent in one go (optional) default 5000 buffermaxbatches description the maximum amount of batches to keep in memory, when the maximum is reached a batch will be saved to disk if the disk queue is enabled and there is space available (optional) default 20 bufferdiskbatches description the maximum amount of batches to write to a single file on disk (optional) default 100 bufferminfreediskspace description the minimum amount of free disk space required to write a batch to disk, if the free disk space is below this value, the sink will not write batches to disk and will drop batches instead (optional) default 2gb buffermaxdiskspace description the maximum amount of disk space to use for the buffer, if the maximum is reached, the sink will drop batches instead of writing them to disk (optional) default 0mb bufferenablediskqueue description if enabled batches will be written to disk when the maximum amount of batches in memory is reached or the application is stopped (optional) default disabled forwarders