adapter-assistant

Setting up a data source adapter involves choosing your source type (syslog, webhook, cloud service), generating a configuration from adapter templates, validating credentials and field mappings, then deploying across your infrastructure. The adapter-assistant guides you through researching available adapter types, creating valid configurations, and troubleshooting deployment issues end-to-end.

LimaCharlie adapters support Grok and regex parsing rules for extracting and transforming data during ingestion. Field mappings let you align incoming data to your schema. The adapter-assistant helps you write, test, and validate these rules for your specific data source before deployment.

Yes, the adapter-assistant supports multi-adapter deployments spanning cloud and on-premises infrastructure. It handles credential setup, environment-specific configuration, and coordination between multiple adapters to ensure consistent ingestion across your deployment topology.

The adapter-assistant diagnoses ingestion failures by validating adapter configurations, checking credential validity, reviewing parsing rules, and identifying configuration mismatches. It provides specific remediation steps for common issues in credential setup, field mapping, and adapter deployment.

The adapter-assistant dynamically researches available adapter types from LimaCharlie's local documentation and the usp-adapters repository. It retrieves current configuration requirements, supported parameters, and setup patterns specific to your chosen data source without manual documentation lookup.

The adapter-assistant guides secure credential setup for multi-adapter deployments, ensuring each adapter receives properly validated credentials without exposure. It coordinates credential configuration across SaaS and on-premises adapters while maintaining security best practices during setup and updates.