AnalyticDB:Use data synchronization to synchronize data from Simple Log Service to Data Lakehouse Edition (recommended)

Prerequisites

• An AnalyticDB for MySQL Data Lakehouse Edition cluster is created.

• A job resource group is created for the AnalyticDB for MySQL cluster. For more information, see Create a resource group.

• A database account is created for the AnalyticDB for MySQL cluster.

  • If you use an Alibaba Cloud account, you must create a privileged account. For more information, see the "Create a privileged account" section of the Create a database account topic.

  • If you use a Resource Access Management (RAM) user, you must create both a privileged account and a standard account and associate the standard account with the RAM user. For more information, see Create a database account and Associate or disassociate a database account with or from a RAM user.

• SLS is activated. A project and a Logstore are created in the same region as the AnalyticDB for MySQL cluster. For more information, see Getting Started.

Usage notes

The data of an SLS Logstore can be synchronized to only a single table in an AnalyticDB for MySQL cluster.

Billing rules

If you use the data migration feature of AnalyticDB for MySQL to migrate data to OSS, the following fees are incurred:

• AnalyticDB compute unit (ACU) elastic resource fees of AnalyticDB for MySQL. For more information, see Billable items of Data Lakehouse Edition.

• Storage fees of OSS and the fees for the number of requests such as GET and PUT. For more information, see Billing overview.

Procedure

• Step 1: (Optional) Configure RAM authorization.

• Step 2: Create a data source.

• Step 3: Create a data synchronization job.

• Step 4: Start the data synchronization job.

• Step 5: Analyze data.

• Step 6: (Optional) Manage the data source.

Configure RAM authorization

If you want to synchronize SLS data to an AnalyticDB for MySQL cluster across Alibaba Cloud accounts, you must create a RAM role on the data source, grant permissions to the RAM role by attaching a policy, and then edit the trust policy of the RAM role. If you want to synchronize SLS data within the same Alibaba Cloud account, you can skip this step and create a data source. For more information, see the "Create a data source" section of this topic.

1. Create a RAM role. For more information, see Create a RAM role for a trusted Alibaba Cloud account.

   Note

   Select Other Alibaba Cloud Account for the Select Trusted Alibaba Cloud Account parameter and enter the ID of the Alibaba Cloud account to which the AnalyticDB for MySQL cluster belongs. You can log on to the Account Center console to view the Alibaba Cloud account ID on the Security Settings page.

2. Attach the AliyunAnalyticDBAccessingLogRolePolicy policy to the RAM role. For more information, see the "Method 2: Grant permissions to a RAM role by clicking Precise Permission on the Roles page" section of the Grant permissions to a RAM role topic.

3. Edit the trust policy of the RAM role. For more information, see Edit the trust policy of a RAM role.

   {
     "Statement": [
       {
         "Action": "sts:AssumeRole",
         "Effect": "Allow",
         "Principal": {
           "RAM": [
               "acs:ram::<Alibaba Cloud account ID>:root"
           ],
           "Service": [
               "<Alibaba Cloud account ID>@ads.aliyuncs.com"
           ]
         }
       }
     ],
     "Version": "1"
   }

   Note

   In the preceding code, the Alibaba Cloud account ID parameter specifies the account ID that is entered in Step 1. When you specify this parameter, delete the angle brackets (<>).

Create a data source

1. Log on to the AnalyticDB for MySQL console. In the upper-left corner of the console, select a region. In the left-side navigation pane, click Clusters. On the Data Lakehouse Edition tab, find the cluster that you want to manage and click the cluster ID.

2. In the left-side navigation pane, choose Data Ingestion > Data Sources.

3. In the upper-right corner of the page, click Create Data Source.

4. On the Create Data Source page, configure the parameters that are described in the following table.

   Parameter	Description
   Data Source Type	The type of the data source. Select SLS.
   Data Source Name	The name of the data source. By default, the system generates a name based on the data source type and the current time. You can modify the name based on your business requirements.
   Data Source Description	The description of the data source. For example, you can enter the use case and business limits.
   Deployment Mode	Only Alibaba Cloud Instance is supported.
   Region of Simple Log Service Project	The region in which the source SLS project resides.
   Across Alibaba Cloud Accounts	Specifies whether the SLS data can be synchronized to the AnalyticDB for MySQL cluster across Alibaba Cloud accounts. Valid values: No. Yes. If you select Yes, you must specify the Alibaba Cloud Account and RAM Role parameters. Note Alibaba Cloud Account: the ID of the Alibaba Cloud account to which the data source belongs. RAM Role: the name of the RAM role that is created on the data source in Step 1.
   Simple Log Service Project	The name of the source SLS project. Important All projects that belong to the Alibaba Cloud account and RAM users are displayed. If you select a project that belongs to the Alibaba Cloud account and want to synchronize data as a RAM user, make sure that the RAM user is granted permissions on the project. Otherwise, data cannot be synchronized to AnalyticDB for MySQL.
   Simple Log Service Logstore	The name of the source SLS Logstore.

5. Click Create.

Create a data synchronization job

1. In the left-side navigation pane, click Simple Log Service/Kafka Data Synchronization.

2. In the upper-right corner of the page, click Create Synchronization Job.

3. On the Simple Log Service Data Source tab of the Create Synchronization Job page, configure the parameters in the Source and Destination Settings, Destination Database and Table Settings, and Synchronization Settings sections.

   • The following table describes the parameters in the Source and Destination Settings section.

     Parameter	Description
     Job Name	The name of the data synchronization job. By default, the system generates a name based on the data source type and the current time. You can modify the name based on your business requirements.
     Data Source	The name of the data source. You can select an existing SLS data source or create a data source.
     Destination Type	The destination type. Only Data Lake - OSS Storage is supported.
     OSS Path	The Object Storage Service (OSS) storage path of the AnalyticDB for MySQL cluster data. Important All buckets that reside in the same region as the AnalyticDB for MySQL cluster are displayed. Configure this parameter based on your business requirements. After you configure this parameter, it cannot be modified. We recommend that you select an empty directory that does not have nested relationships with the directories of other data synchronization jobs. This prevents historical data from being overwritten. For example, assume that the involved OSS storage paths of two data synchronization jobs are oss://adb_demo/test/sls1/ and oss://adb_demo/test/. In this case, data overwriting occurs during data synchronization because these two paths have nested relationships with each other.

   • The following table describes the parameters in the Destination Database and Table Settings section.

     Parameter	Description
     Database Name	The name of the destination database in the AnalyticDB for MySQL cluster. If no database that uses the same name exists, a database is created. If a database that uses the same name already exists, data is synchronized to the existing database. For information about the naming conventions for databases, see Limits.
     Table Name	The name of the destination table in the AnalyticDB for MySQL cluster. If no table that uses the same name exists in the database, a table is created. If a table that uses the same name already exists in the database, data fails to be synchronized. For information about the naming conventions for tables, see Limits.
     Schema Field Mapping	The source and destination fields. By default, fields are obtained based on the shipping task configuration of SLS. If no shipping task is configured for the Logstore, fields are obtained based on the most recent log data. The following data types are supported: BOOLEAN, INT, BIGINT, FLOAT, DOUBLE, and STRING. The reserved fields of SLS can be synchronized. For more information, see Reserved fields. Important The destination field names cannot be modified. If a data synchronization job is started, regardless of whether it is being started and running or has been started and completed, information about existing columns cannot be modified. However, you can add more columns. If a data synchronization job is created but has never been started, information about existing columns can be modified.
     Partition Key Settings	The partition field settings for the destination table. To ensure that data is ingested and queries are executed as expected, we recommend that you configure partitions based on the log time or business logic. If you do not configure partitions, no partitions exist in the destination table. Valid values for the Format Processing Method parameter: Formatted Time: Select a datetime field from the Source Partition Field drop-down list, set the Format Processing Method parameter to Formatted Time, and then configure the Source Field Format and Destination Partition Format parameters. AnalyticDB for MySQL identifies the value of the partition field based on the specified source field format and converts the value into the specified destination partition format for partitioning. For example, if the source field is gmt_created whose value is 1711358834, the Source Field Format parameter is set to Timestamp Accurate to Seconds, and the Destination Partition Format parameter is set to yyyyMMdd, the value is partitioned based on 20240325. Specified Partition Field: Set the Format Processing Method parameter to Specified Partition Field and configure other required parameters.

   • The following table describes the parameters in the Synchronization Settings section.

     Parameter	Description
     Starting Consumer Offset for Incremental Synchronization	The point in time from which the system consumes SLS data when the data synchronization job starts. Valid values: Earliest Offset (begin_cursor): The system consumes SLS data from the point in time at which the earliest data record was generated. Latest Offset (end_cursor): The system consumes SLS data from the point in time at which the latest data record was generated. Custom Offset: You can select a point in time. Then, the system consumes SLS data from the first entry that is generated as of the selected point in time.
     Job Resource Group	The job resource group that runs the data synchronization job.
     ACUs for Incremental Synchronization	The number of AnalyticDB compute units (ACUs) that are required for the job resource group to run the data synchronization job. The value ranges from 2 to the maximum number of computing resources that are available in the job resource group. To improve the stability and performance of data ingestion, we recommend that you specify a larger number of ACUs. Note When you create a data synchronization job in a job resource group, elastic resources in the resource group are used, and the system deducts the used resources from the resource group. For example, assume that a job resource group has 48 ACUs of reserved computing resources and a synchronization job that consumes 8 ACUs is created. When you create another synchronization job in the resource group, you can select up to 40 ACUs.
     Advanced Settings	The custom settings for the data synchronization job. If you want to configure custom settings, contact technical support.

4. Click Submit.

Start the data synchronization job

1. On the Simple Log Service/Kafka Data Synchronization page, find the data synchronization job that you created and click Start in the Actions column.

2. In the upper-right corner of the page, click Search. If the state of the job changes to Starting, the data synchronization job is started.