When we talk about WSO2 DAS there are a few important things we need to give focus to. They are, Event receivers, Event Streams, Event Stream definitions and Event Stores.
Events, are units of data, that are received by WSO2 DAS using Event Receivers. Through these Event Receivers WSO2 DAS receives events from different transports in JSON, XML, WSO2 Event formats, etc. formats. There are many different Event receivers available in WSO2 DAS, such as HTTP Event Receivers, SOAP Event Receivers, WSO2Event Event Receivers, etc.
Event Streams are known to be a sequence of events of a particular type. The “type” in this context can be defined as an event stream definition.
An Event Stream definition is sort of a schema which describes in which format the events that comes into WSO2 DAS server should be in. Each Event Stream Definition would have a name, a version and most importantly the type of the data that it expects to be sent in to WSO2 DAS as Events.
Once an event is received by the Event Receiver, it would be checked against the Event Stream definition and be persisted to an Event Store. This is happening through the Data Analytics Layer (DAL) where the events will be stored in the Event store (can be a relational database) as a BLOB which is in human unreadable format. Then these events will be analyzed and processed and the processed information will then again be store in a Process Store (This too can be a relational database) in a BLOB format.
These analyzed data will be decrypted by DAL and presented in a human readable format through the Data Explorer of WSO2 DAS.
When it comes to IS Analytics, whatever the analyzed data that are in the Process Store will be presented through the Analytics Dashboard which is available in WSO2 DAS after the data being decrypted from DAL.
However, the API Manager Analytics are visible from the Store/Publisher portals that are shipped with the API Manager product. However, the API manager related events that are stored in the Process store cannot be read directly from the API Manager dashboards as they are in a encrypted format. Only a DAL can decrypt this information into a human readable format. Because of this, we have introduced a way which is using a method called carbonJDBC where the DAL converts these information that are in the process store and store them in an external relational database. This database is then pointed to, from the API Manager dashboards and you will see API Manager analytics accordingly.
