= Create Service


== Start Datacollector

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.

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http://docs.swarmlab.io/SwarmLab-HowTos/swarmlab/docs/swarmlab/docs/myservices/poc-datacollector.html[Data collector - start^]

http://docs.swarmlab.io/SwarmLab-HowTos/swarmlab/docs/build/site/swarmlab_poc-datacollector/docs/index.html[Data collector - Usage^]

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== Tasks 

 Make sure you have enough practice in the following tasks:

* Start Datacollector @okeanos
* Usage  @okeanos
* Start Datacollector @home
* Usage  @home