Pipeline Quickstart: Add a Telemetry Generator Node

Overview

This is the first step in the Pipeline Quickstart guide. See that page for an overview and the prerequisites.

In this section, you create a telemetry generator node to generate dummy traffic in the pipeline.

1. Add Telemetry Generator Source Node

1. Click Add Node.

2. Search for generator and click Telemetry Generator Source.

3. The Telemetry Generator Source configuration page opens. Select Apache Error in the Templates field.

This form configures the Telemetry Generator to output logs that look like apache errors at a rate of 1 per second.

4. Click Save.

2. Connect the Nodes

Next you route traffic from the Telemetry Generator to the Edge Delta destination node.

Drag a link from the Telemetry Generator’s processor output to the Edge Delta Destination’s Processor input.

You can send the Telemetry Generator traffic to the log to pattern node too.

Next Step

Reduce noise and volume by dropping lower‑value severities (debug, info, trace, notice).