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 collector" is a lightweight micro-service application that collects and sends metadata, 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.
* The data is transmitted and stored and can be retrieved at any time.
*"data collector"* are developed with a platform agnostic"container-based application strategy
* "*data collector*" is developed with a platform agnostic" container-based application strategy
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A platform-agnostic approach offers many choices
* Can be seamlessly moved from local development machine to production deployments
* Can be seamlessly moved from local development machine to production deployment