Kinesis Data Firehose

Integrating Batch with Kinesis Data Firehose provides a powerful and efficient interface for searching and storing events. In this example, we will demonstrate integrating with Amazon AWS SES service.

Create a JSON collection

1. Login into https://console.streamdal.com

2. Navigate to 'Collections'

3. Click 'New Collection' at the top right

4. Name your collection and select JSON format

Json Collection

Create Kinesis Data Firehose

These steps are specific to SES integration but you can adjust most to your use case

1. Navigate to Kinesis in AWS console

2. Under 'Data Firehose' select 'Create delivery stream'

3. Enter a 'Delivery stream name'

4. Select 'Direct PUT or other sources'

5. Enable 'Enable server-side encryption for source records in delivery stream' if desired

6. At the bottom of the page select Next

7. On the next page, Processing Records leave defaults and select Next

8. Under 'Choose a destination' select 'HTTP Endpoint'

9. Set 'HTTP endpoint URL' to https://http-collector.streamdal.com/v1/kinesis

10. Set 'Access key' to the 'Collection Token' found under the Collection we created earlier in https://console.streamdal.com under the collections tab

11. Configure an S3 bucket for failed records and select Next

12. On the next page leave the defaults and select Next

13. Review and select 'Create delivery stream'

Tie Kinesis Data Firehose to SES

Follow the guide https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/event-publishing-add-event-destination-firehose.html to create an SES set and tie it to the Kinesis data firehose you created earlier.

Configure your application so use the SES

Follow the guide https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/event-publishing-send-email.html to associate your email to an SES set

Use Batch to view SES Data

1. Trigger an SES email that uses the SES set we created earlier

2. Wait a few minutes for Kinesis to send the event to Batch

3. Navigate to the collection we created earlier at https://console.streamdal.com

4. Click on a message to view the JSON and all searchable fields

In the image above I clicked on the field 'eventType' on the right-hand side. You can see the search field was automatically updated with the correct search syntax to find more SNS event types that match the value 'Open'

Summary

You now have a much better and simpler way of dealing with Kinesis data than dumping to an S3 bucket or managing your own Elasticsearch cluster. You also get access to many more features such as being able to replay these events into other destinations for further processing.