PLTcloud Report Connector
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
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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.
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Click Next
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On the Configure Options screen, leave all default settings as-is, and click Next
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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
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If you aren’t signed into your PLTcloud account, sign in first.
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Select the Project for which you’d like to set a Report Connector destination.
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Navigate to Project Settings
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Click on the Report Connector button
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Click on the + Add Destination button
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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
- S3 Bucket: Fill in the name of your S3 bucket (without any
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- Select either
csv
orjson
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.