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Capturing Data

We're going to start out by capturing a bit of data to work with.

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Run a Capture

  1. With Manage active in Stream's top navigation, select Processing from the submenu, then click Pipelines.
  2. Make sure Sample Data has focus in the right pane.
  3. Click Capture Data.
  4. In the Capture Sample Data modal's Filter Expression field, the following expression should already be present. If not, paste in: 
    sourcetype==='employee'
  5. Click Capture, accept the defaults, and click Start.
  6. Once the capture is complete, you should see a number of events in the modal. (The events will look roughly like the right side of the screenshot below.)
  7. Click Save as a Sample File.
  8. Note the default File Name under Sample File Settings. (You can change it to something more intuitive if you like.)
  9. Click Save.

When the modal closes, you should see something like this in the right pane:

Captured Data

Now that we've got some sample data to work with, let's start shaping it...