Conversion of cloud computing platform data for ingestion by data intake and query system

One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media including instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform the steps of:

• receive, by a client computing device via a connector, a first data object formatted in accordance with a first format associated with a cloud computing platform (CCP), the CCP having a cloud computing monitoring component to monitor performances of one or more components operating in the CCP, the first data object received from the cloud computing monitoring component;
• convert, by the client computing device via the connector, the first data object to one or more second data objects formatted in accordance with a second format that allows for enhanced ingestion by a data intake and query system (DIQS), the DIQS collecting and storing machine data as time associated events, and employing a late-binding schema to specify how to extract information from the stored events and that is not applied to the stored events until search time,
• wherein the first data object includes a plurality of metric values, and wherein converting the first data object to the one or more second data objects includes converting the first data object into a plurality of second data objects such that each of the plurality of second data objects includes only a single metric value from amongst the plurality of metric values included in the first data object;
• and
• provide, by the connector and to the DIQS, the plurality of second data objects, the DIQS being external to a firewall of the CCP,
• wherein each of the plurality of second data objects includes same information including information indicating the connector, wherein the connector is implemented at the client computing device, and the connector converts the first data object to the plurality of second data objects.

A computing device, comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• memory containing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the computing device to:
• receive, by the computing device via a connector, a first data formatted in accordance with a first format associated with a cloud computing platform (CCP), the CCP having a cloud computing monitoring component to monitor performances of one or more components operating in the CCP, the first data object received from the cloud computing monitoring component;
• convert, by the computing device via the connector, the first data object to one or more second data objects formatted in accordance with a second format that allows for enhanced ingestion by a data intake and query system (DIQS), the DIQS collecting and storing machine data as time associated events, and employing a late-binding schema to specify how to extract information from the stored events and that is not applied to the stored events until search time,
• wherein the first data object includes a plurality of metric values, and wherein converting the first data object to the one or more second data objects includes converting the first data object into a plurality of second data objects such that each of the plurality of second data objects includes only a single metric value from amongst the plurality of metric values included in the first data object:
• and
• provide, by the connector, the plurality of second data objects to the DIQS, the DIQS being external to a firewall of the CCP,
• wherein each of the plurality of second data objects includes same information including information indicating the connector, wherein the connector is implemented at the computing device, and the connector converts the first data object to the plurality of second data objects.