Testing Your Firehose stream Using Sample Data - Amazon Data Firehose

Amazon Data Firehose was previously known as Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose

Testing Your Firehose stream Using Sample Data

You can use the AWS Management Console to ingest simulated stock ticker data. The console runs a script in your browser to put sample records in your Firehose stream. This enables you to test the configuration of your Firehose stream without having to generate your own test data.

The following is an example from the simulated data:

{"TICKER_SYMBOL":"QXZ","SECTOR":"HEALTHCARE","CHANGE":-0.05,"PRICE":84.51}

Note that standard Amazon Data Firehose charges apply when your Firehose stream transmits the data, but there is no charge when the data is generated. To stop incurring these charges, you can stop the sample stream from the console at any time.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, create a Firehose stream. For more information, see Creating a Firehose stream.

Test Using Amazon S3 as the Destination

Use the following procedure to test your Firehose stream using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) as the destination.

To test a Firehose stream using Amazon S3
  1. Open the Firehose console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/firehose/.

  2. Choose the Firehose stream.

  3. Under Test with demo data, choose Start sending demo data to generate sample stock ticker data.

  4. Follow the onscreen instructions to verify that data is being delivered to your S3 bucket. Note that it might take a few minutes for new objects to appear in your bucket, based on the buffering configuration of your bucket.

  5. When the test is complete, choose Stop sending demo data to stop incurring usage charges.

Test Using Amazon Redshift as the Destination

Use the following procedure to test your Firehose stream using Amazon Redshift as the destination.

To test a Firehose stream using Amazon Redshift
  1. Your Firehose stream expects a table to be present in your Amazon Redshift cluster. Connect to Amazon Redshift through a SQL interface and run the following statement to create a table that accepts the sample data.

    create table firehose_test_table ( TICKER_SYMBOL varchar(4), SECTOR varchar(16), CHANGE float, PRICE float );
  2. Open the Firehose console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/firehose/.

  3. Choose the Firehose stream.

  4. Edit the destination details for your Firehose stream to point to the newly created firehose_test_table table.

  5. Under Test with demo data, choose Start sending demo data to generate sample stock ticker data.

  6. Follow the onscreen instructions to verify that data is being delivered to your table. Note that it might take a few minutes for new rows to appear in your table, based on the buffering configuration.

  7. When the test is complete, choose Stop sending demo data to stop incurring usage charges.

  8. Edit the destination details for your Firehose stream to point to another table.

  9. (Optional) Delete the firehose_test_table table.

Test Using OpenSearch Service as the Destination

Use the following procedure to test your Firehose stream using Amazon OpenSearch Service as the destination.

To test a Firehose stream using OpenSearch Service
  1. Open the Firehose console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/firehose/.

  2. Choose the Firehose stream.

  3. Under Test with demo data, choose Start sending demo data to generate sample stock ticker data.

  4. Follow the onscreen instructions to verify that data is being delivered to your OpenSearch Service domain. For more information, see Searching Documents in an OpenSearch Service Domain in the Amazon OpenSearch Service Developer Guide.

  5. When the test is complete, choose Stop sending demo data to stop incurring usage charges.

Test Using Splunk as the Destination

Use the following procedure to test your Firehose stream using Splunk as the destination.

To test a Firehose stream using Splunk
  1. Open the Firehose console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/firehose/.

  2. Choose the Firehose stream.

  3. Under Test with demo data, choose Start sending demo data to generate sample stock ticker data.

  4. Check whether the data is being delivered to your Splunk index. Example search terms in Splunk are sourcetype="aws:firehose:json" and index="name-of-your-splunk-index". For more information about how to search for events in Splunk, see Search Manual in the Splunk documentation.

    If the test data doesn't appear in your Splunk index, check your Amazon S3 bucket for failed events. Also see Data Not Delivered to Splunk.

  5. When you finish testing, choose Stop sending demo data to stop incurring usage charges.