The recommended method for publishing monitor data into
Optimize is to use the Web Service Data Collector's dimensionalData interface that is described in this section. The Web Service Data Collector contains web services for sending data as
events and
dimensions, where events capture metric data and dimensions capture metadata about the metric data. For more information, see
Configuring KPIs.
The
addEvent (event) and addEvents
(events) methods pass data as event types and a list of details about the event types, presented as a series of key/value data pairs.
The following table provides an example of the metadata that the event passes.
The
addDimension (dimension) and addDimensions
(dimensions) methods pass metadata for the event data as a dimension type, or name, and a list of details about the dimension type presented as a series of key/value data pairs.
The following table provides an example of the metadata that the event passes.
The
addStronglyTypedDimension (dimension) and
addStronglyTypedDimensions (dimensions) methods pass metadata for the event data as a dimension type, or name, and a list of details about the dimension type presented as a series of key/value data pairs.
The following table provides an example of the metadata that the event passes.