Report Connector

It’s important to not that PLTcloud itself is not a data warehouse. PLTcloud serves as a datasource for a data pipeline (or ETL tool) enabling you to replicate data from various sources and consolidate it into a single location.

Supported Destinations

At this point, PLTcloud supports Amazon S3 buckets as Report Destinations.

Data will not begin replication until you’ve successfully connected a destination to a project, and at least one test plan is executed for the project.

As part of the Enterprise plan, additional destinations can be supported.

Amazon S3 Destination

Prerequisites

  • An Amazon Web Services (AWS) account. Signing up is free -go to https://aws.amazon.com to create an account.
  • Permissions to create and manage S3 buckets in AWS.

Step 1: Create an Amazon S3 Bucket

  • Sign into AWS Console
  • Click Services on the top-left corner
  • Select S3 under the Storage section
  • Click the + Create Bucket button

AWS S3 Bucket Creation

    • On the first screen, Name and region, complete the following:

      • Bucket name: Enter a unique DNS-compliant name for the bucket.
      • Region: Select the region you want the bucket to be located in.

  • Click Next

  • On the Configure Options screen, leave all default settings as-is, and click Next

  • On the Set Permissions screen, choose Block all public access and click Next

  • On the Review screen, verify all settings and click the Create bucket button.

Step 2: Set the Report Connector Destination in PLTcloud

  • If you aren’t signed into your PLTcloud account, sign in first.

  • Select the Project for which you’d like to set a Report Connector destination.

  • Navigate to Project Settings

  • Click on the Report Connector button

  • Click on the + Add Destination button

    • Fill in the fields as below:

      • S3 Bucket: Fill in the name of your S3 bucket (without any s3:// prefix)
      • Region: Fill in the AWS region of your S3 bucket
      • Report Prefix: Optionally fill in a prefix (folder name) for the reports within the bucket
  • Select either csv or json for CSV or JSON reports

Step 3: Grant bucket access

  • Navigate to the Report Connector Destination detail page.
  • Expand the S3 Bucket Policy tab
  • Copy the S3 Bucket Policy JSON
  • Sign into AWS in another tab, if not currently logged in.
  • In AWS Console, navigate to the Permissions tab of the S3 bucket that serves as the Report Connector Destinations.
  • In the Permissions tab, click the Bucket Policy button.
  • In the Bucket Policy editor, paste the bucket policy code from PLTcloud.
  • Click the Save button when finished.

At this point, test reports should start to appear in the S3 bucket a few seconds after a test plan associated with the Project is executed on a PLT.