Guided tutorials for IBM Event Automation
This set of guided tutorials will take you through the key features of Event Automation.
Set up the environment
Quickly create a demo Event Automation environment, including topics with live streams of events that you can use to try the tutorials.
1 - Filter events based on particular properties
When processing events we can use filter operations to select input events.
2 - Transform events to create or remove properties
When processing events we can use transform operations to refine input events.
3 - Aggregate events to detect trends over time
Processing events over a time-window allows you to build a summary view of a situation which can be useful to identify overall trends.
4 - Join related events within time windows
Many interesting situations need us to combine multiple streams of events that correlate events across these inputs to derive a new, interesting situation.
5 - Automate actions based on event triggers
Once your event processing has identified a situation of interest, a common next step is to automate a response. You can write the output of your processing flows to a Kafka topic to achieve this.
6 - Share events for discovery by others
Publish the results of your event processing to the Catalog to allow them to be shared and reused by others.
Tutorials for Event Processing
Learn about how Event Processing can help you transform and act on event data.
Enrich events with reference data
Enriching a stream of events with static reference data from a database can increase the business relevance of events.
Generating custom properties for custom filters
Writing custom filter expressions that use dynamically generated properties added to events can help to identify specific situations.
Identify combinations of events occurring multiple times
Aggregate processors can identify events that are interesting if they occur multiple times within a time window.
Deduplicating repeated events
Some systems offer at-least-once assurances, and will occasionally generate duplicate events. Processing these to remove duplicates can enable consumption by systems that cannot behave idempotently.
Identify trends from events
Identifying types of events that occur most frequently within a time window is a useful way to detect trends.
Process out-of-sequence events
Events generated from a wide range of producers can be out of sequence on the topic, making it important to resolve this before time-sensitive processing.
Triggering automations from processing results
You can use App Connect to trigger automations and notifications from event processing results.
Using complex events with nested properties and arrays
Handling complex events with nested properties and arrays to identify a situation and extract only the necessary information.
Monitoring Flink with Prometheus and Grafana
Find out how to monitor Flink with Prometheus and setup Grafana.
Handle evolving formats by using a schema registry
Connect to a schema registry to process a stream of events with formats that change over time.
Tutorials for Event Streams
Find out how to get more out of Event Streams with these practical tutorials.
Monitoring Event Streams cluster health with Prometheus and Grafana
Set up Prometheus to monitor your Event Streams installations and visualize the data through Grafana.
Monitoring cluster health with Datadog
Monitor the health of your cluster by using Datadog to capture Kafka broker JMX metrics.
Monitoring cluster health with a Splunk HTTP Event Collector
Monitor the health of your cluster by using Splunk to capture Kafka broker JMX metrics.
Monitoring cluster health with Splunk
Monitor the health of your cluster by using Splunk to capture Kafka broker JMX metrics.
Setting up alert notifications to Slack
Receive notifications about the health of your cluster based on monitored metrics.
Installing a multizone cluster
See an example of setting up a multizone Event Streams in a non-zone-aware cluster.