New in Qube 6.10

With the exception of the transmissions between the collectors and the DRA, all communications are done over TLS with x509 certificates signed by a known CA.

The Metrics Collectors

The metrics collectors run on the supervisor, one collector for each metric. They sample at 15-second intervals and report the data every 60 seconds to the Data Relay Agent (DRA). Data is sent over the HTTP protocol to the DRA.

The Data Relay Agent (DRA)

The DRA serves as a gateway between the collectors and the cloud-based metrics server. It can be installed either on the supervisor, on another host on the same network, or on a host outside of a firewall.

DRA Installation Scenarios

The Metrics Server

The DRA relays data up to the metrics server over a REST API running over TLS. The metrics server's only purpose is to ingest the metrics data and store it in an InfluxDB cluster database, and is a service running behind an Elastic Load Balancer to ensure high availability and scalability.

The Metered Licensing Portal

The metered license portal is the service running at https://metered.pipelinefx.com, and is a cluster of hosts behind an Elastic Load Balancer. The website servers behind that load balancer communicate with another set of backend servers behind a separate load balancer over another REST API, and those backend servers retrieve the metrics data from the InfluxDB cluster for display on the portal site.