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Collector Configuration Manual for "Alibaba Cloud-VPC"

Before reading this article, please first read:

Before using this collector, you must install the 'Integration Core Package' and its associated third-party dependency packages

1. Configuration Structure

The configuration structure of this collector is as follows:

Field Type Required Description
regions list Required List of regions to collect data from
regions[#] str Required Region ID. For example: 'cn-hangzhou'
Refer to the full table in the appendix

2. Configuration Example

Specifying Regions

Collect data from Hangzhou and Shanghai regions.

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collector_configs = {
    'regions': [ 'cn-hangzhou', 'cn-shanghai' ]
}

3. Data Reporting Format

After the data has been successfully synchronized, it can be viewed in the {{( brand_name )}} "Infrastructure - Resource Catalog".

An example of the reported data is as follows:

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 {
  "measurement": "aliyun_vpc",
  "tags": {
    "name" : "vpc-bpxxxxxxxxxx",
    "VpcId": "vpc-bpxxxxxxxxxx"
  },
  "fields": {
    "VpcName"  : "Operator",
    "RegionId" : "cn-hangzhou",
    "VRouterId": "vrt-bp13e10uxxxxxxxxxx",
    "CidrBlock": "192.168.0.0/16",
    "message"  : "{JSON instance data}"
  }
}

The fields in tags and fields may change with subsequent updates

The value of tags.VpcId serves as a unique identifier

fields.message is a JSON serialized string

X. Appendix

Please refer to the official Alibaba Cloud documentation: