K Collector Infrastucture Requirements

1. Deploying Collectors

Collectors are used to connect to your sources to extract metadata & logs for processing

All Collectors are written in python.

See the Collector Method to see more details about each Collecotr

2. Cloud deployment options

Collectors can be deployed on Compute that supports Python.

The following Cloud providers are recommended:

Requirement

Detail

AWS

Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2)

Azure

Azure Virtual Machines

Google Cloud

Google Compute Engine (GCE)

3. Collector Server requirements

We recommend the following minimum specifications:

  • CPU: 2 vCPU

  • Memory: 8GB

  • Storage: 30GB (depends on historical data extracted)

  • OS: Unix distro e.g. RHEL preferred but can also work with Windows Server

  • Python 3.10.x or later

  • Access to K landing directory

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