Data kinds

A data kind documents what flows through a digital resource: its shape and its schema. Linking resources to data kinds makes workflows self-describing and lets the Kibana integration pick the right dashboard (resources of kind Observation get the Observation dashboard).

Warehouse → Data Kinds: payload shape and cardinality for each kind.

Fields

Field	Values
Name, Description	Free text
Payload Shape	Structured · Tabular · Text · Binary
Cardinality	Single · Collection · Stream
Schema Format	JSON (JSON Schema) · CSV (columns table) · XML (XSD) · Avro (JSON or IDL)
Schema	The schema itself. CSV kinds use a columns table (name, type string / number / integer / boolean / date, required).

Telemetry Event: a structured stream with a JSON Schema.

Built-in data kinds

Initialize Resources creates: Observation, Telemetry Event, Asset State, Tabular Records, Generic JSON Payload, XML Document, Avro Record, Document and Binary Blob. Their schemas are listed in Data kinds reference. You can duplicate and adapt them.

tip

The Observation kind must keep its schema: WME's observation pipelines and the Observation dashboard rely on it.