Architecture

PSknowHOW Architecture - Components

• Platform UI

• Data Collectors

• Custom API

• Kafka

• Data Store

Platform UI

• UI Application is hosted over a web server, and it is point from which the end user interacts with the system.

• The default installation is done with a self-signed SSL certificate.

Data Collectors

• The data collectors are written in JAVA to pull data from supported tools using RESTful API calls from these given tools.

• All collected data is stored in MongoDB as JSON documents.

• The data collection doesnt pull any PII data.

Custom API

• The API layer written in JAVA calculates the API metrices and expose as JSON documents to be consumed by UI.

Data Store

• MongoDB is the primary database , which is used by data collectors to push collected data from various sources

• The access to these various data storage systems are abstracted and the entire system talks to these entities only using Platform DAL 

Kafka System

• Kafka is used to push all notification messages for processing.

• Kafka will recieve in-bound mesaages submitted via post API in future release.