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Plugins

Before getting started we expect you went through the prerequisites.

Meteor follows a plugin driven approach and hence includes basically three kinds of plugins for the metadata orchestration: extractors (source), processors, and sinks (destination). Some details on these 3 are:

  • Extractors are the set of plugins that are the source of our metadata and include databases, dashboards, users, etc.

  • Processors are the set of plugins that perform the enrichment or data processing for the metadata after extraction.

  • Sinks are the plugins that act as the destination of our metadata after extraction and processing.

Read more about the concepts on each of these in concepts. To get more context on these plugins, it is recommended to try out the list command to get the list of plugins of a specific type. Commands to list the plugins are mentioned below

Listing all the plugins​

# list all available extractors
$ meteor list extractors

# list all extractors with alias 'e'
$ meteor list e

# list available sinks
$ meteor list sinks

# list all sinks with alias 's'
$ meteor list s

# list all available processors
$ meteor list processors

# list all processors with alias 'p'
$ meteor list p