Integrate TDengine with Perspective

This article demonstrates how to integrate TDengine with Perspective for real-time stream analytics.

Video

TDengine–Perspective Demo

You can explore the visualization options provided by Perspective in this demonstration environment.

Prerequisites

• Install Git. For more information, see the official website.
• Install Docker. For more information, see the official website.

Procedure

1. Clone the perspective-examples repository from GitHub to your local machine and open the examples/tdengine/node directory.

   git clone https://github.com/ProspectiveCo/perspective-examples
   cd examples/tdengine/node

2. Run the provided script to start TDengine in a Docker container:

   ./docker.sh

3. Install Node.js dependencies:

   npm install

4. Run the producer script to create a database and table in TDengine and insert simulated data in real time:

   node src/producer.js

5. Run the server script to construct a Perspective WebSocket server and a Perspective table:

   node src/server.js

6. Host the Perspective front-end with Vite.

   npm run dev

7. Open the URL of the Vite development server in a web browser. The default URL is http://localhost:3000.

You can now visualize the sample data in your browser as shown in the following figure.