Scrub Jobs

This section discusses topics related to scrubbing telemetry data from Kloudfuse.

This new powerful approach enables users to safely delete data from Metrics, Logs, and APM streams.

The topics include:

To scrub telemetry data, follow these steps:

  1. Select the Admin tab, and then the Scrubbing option in the drop-down menu.

    Navigate to the Scrubbing interface

  2. The Scrubbing Jobs interface appears.

Using the Scrubbing Jobs Interface

The Scrubbing jobs interface has the following information and affordances:

Scrub Jobs list
Scrubbing Jobs list

  1. Refresh jobs list.

  2. Create scrubbing job button to create a new job. See Create a Scrubbing Job.

  3. Search bar to locate specific jobs.

  4. List of existing Scrubbing Jobs.

  5. Sort for the Scrubbing Jobs list, on Job name, Stream, or Status, and Created date.

  6. Specify the number of rows you can see on each page.

    select the number of rows on page

  7. Navigate across pages by clicking individual page numbers, or forward (forward) and backward (backward) arrows.

    select page numbers

Create a Scrubbing Job

You can only scrub data from Metric, Log, and APM streams.

Follow these steps to create a new scrub job:

  1. Click the start scrubbing job (start scrubbing job) button at the top of the page.

    Start a new scrubbing job

  2. The Confirm scrubbing job interface appears.

  3. In Confirm scrubbing job, specify these parameters:

    1. The Telemetry stream: Logs, Metrics, or APM.

    2. The Time interval; use the Time Picker.

    3. At least one Label Filter: the label, the comparison operator, and the value.

    4. [Optional] Add filter.

  4. Preview the selected telemetry items that you are planning to scrub, both on the chart and in the list.

  5. You can see the details of the selected items by selecting the Open in <telemetry stream> page.

    In this example, click Open in APM page to preview the matching APM traces that you plan to scrub from the system.

    Specify job paramters

  6. Click Confirm Scrubbing (Confirm Scrubbing).

  7. In the confirmation pop-up, name the scrubbing job, and click Confirm Scrubbing (Confirm Scrubbing) again.

    create the new job

  8. Kloudfuse notifies you that you successfully added a new scrubbing job.

The new job appears in the Scrubbing jobs interface.

Find a Scrubbing job

It may be difficult to find an existing scrubbing job. Kloudfuse enables you to find groups through our Search function.

  1. In Scrubbing jobs, click the Search bar.

  2. Start typing the key word, and Kloudfuse automatically filters the list of potential matches.