Usage Metering
Ingestion Options
Files
2 min
ingesting meters from file sources metering data is often generated and stored in files by other systems these files may be in formats such as csv json other structured or semi structured types in many cases, the data needs to be transformed before it can be ingested into amberflo’s metering system options for ingesting file based metering data you have several methods available write code using our sdks to read data from files, transform the data if needed and send it to amberflo for ingestion use logstash to parse and transform the file contents and upload the transformed data to amberflo's s3 bucket ( elastic logstash ) use an etl tool any etl tool that can push data to s3 is supported amberflo will automatically pick up the files and ingest them once they’re in your assigned bucket aws s3