The data collector is a lightweight microservice application that collect and sends metadata, collected from a system, such as an IoT network, distributed system, data center, etc to a storage system.
* The data are transmitted, stored, and can be retrieved at any time.
* In a platform agnostic container-based application.
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Can be seamlessly moved from local development machine to production deployments
* From Code to full-blown systems
** from a single container on your local machine
** to a running cloud native - container-based environment
*"Directory Maps"* are the preferred mechanism for persisting data generated by and used by Docker containers. We use here "bind mounts" and they are dependent on the directory structure and OS of the host machine.
WARNING: Your local changes to the files will be overwritten by click on "Download" button. You should always *take a full backup* first (simple copy the directory tree)