Telemetry Ingestion Staging Feature (Cloud Only)

This article walks through the user interface for Telemetry Ingestion Staging feature. This feature was released to Cloud in November 2025, and will be included in the On Prem solution in early calendar 2026.

This feature can be used in different ways, based on the workflow preference of the user. The first option is to set up the data ingestion pipeline first (Telemetry Collector and Sensor Collector), and upon the data appearing as "discovered" in the UI, the user can curate how they want the data to appear in Provider Connectivity Assurance. Alternatively, the user can set up the Provider Connectivity Assurance attributes first using this feature before setting up the configuring and installing a data ingestion pipeline, and do the mapping of metrics after data is flowing.

Enabling Feature

To leverage the feature, contact TAC over intercom to have the "Ingestion Staging" feature enabled on the tenant.

Important: Remember that new object types will not appear in the openmetrics section of Ingestion->metrics when this feature is enabled. Instead, new and existing object types appear under a new menu item Ingestion -> Object Types, shown here:

Create New Telemetry Object Type

To create a new object type, you can either send in data from a Sensor Collector and it will appear in the list with the status "discovered", or you can start by setting it up in Provider Connectivity Assurance before sending in data from a Sensor Collector, either option works.

To create a new telemetry Object type in the platform before their is data incoming from a Sensor Collector, choose "+ Create Object type" button and type in an object name and a Category (usually the vendor name or the telemetry source, like Cisco) :

Update Existing Telemetry Object Type

To add or remove metrics from an existing object type (a common use case for CX when adding additional sensor paths to IOS XE and IOS XR object types), select the object type and choose the ellipses (three dots) on the right, then choose "duplicate" to make a new copy that you can edit for your use case:

Assign Metrics and Units to Object Type

Use the middle column to add the metrics and dynamic metadata you will use in your object type, and note that the system identifiers will be added automatically because they are mandatory: