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Use
information_schema
in source command to query tables information under a datasource.In the current state, information_schema
only support metadata of tables.
This schema will be extended for views, columns and other metadata info in future.
source = datasource.information_schema.tables;
The examples fetches tables in the prometheus datasource.
PPL query for fetching PROMETHEUS TABLES with where clause:
os> source = my_prometheus.information_schema.tables | where TABLE_NAME='prometheus_http_requests_total' fetched rows / total rows = 1/1 +---------------+--------------+--------------------------------+------------+------+---------------------------+ | TABLE_CATALOG | TABLE_SCHEMA | TABLE_NAME | TABLE_TYPE | UNIT | REMARKS | |---------------+--------------+--------------------------------+------------+------+---------------------------| | my_prometheus | default | prometheus_http_requests_total | counter | | Counter of HTTP requests. | +---------------+--------------+--------------------------------+------------+------+---------------------------+
The examples searches tables in the prometheus datasource.
PPL query for searching PROMETHEUS TABLES:
os> source = my_prometheus.information_schema.tables | where LIKE(TABLE_NAME, "%http%"); fetched rows / total rows = 6/6 +---------------+--------------+--------------------------------------------+------------+------+----------------------------------------------------+ | TABLE_CATALOG | TABLE_SCHEMA | TABLE_NAME | TABLE_TYPE | UNIT | REMARKS | |---------------+--------------+--------------------------------------------+------------+------+----------------------------------------------------| | my_prometheus | default | prometheus_http_requests_total | counter | | Counter of HTTP requests. | | my_prometheus | default | promhttp_metric_handler_requests_in_flight | gauge | | Current number of scrapes being served. | | my_prometheus | default | prometheus_http_request_duration_seconds | histogram | | Histogram of latencies for HTTP requests. | | my_prometheus | default | prometheus_sd_http_failures_total | counter | | Number of HTTP service discovery refresh failures. | | my_prometheus | default | promhttp_metric_handler_requests_total | counter | | Total number of scrapes by HTTP status code. | | my_prometheus | default | prometheus_http_response_size_bytes | histogram | | Histogram of response size for HTTP requests. | +---------------+--------------+--------------------------------------------+------------+------+----------------------------------------------------+