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Datameer helps you answer new business questions and produce more data assets to feed your information-hungry organization. Datameer is an agile platform that covers the entire data lifecycle from ingestion to preparation to exploration and consumption.

Datameer helps organizations gain the maximum value from their data by creating secure, scalable, and accessible business data pipelines that connect users to the data they need at any time. Datameer offers a complete data preparation and exploration platform that simplifies and accelerates the time-consuming, cumbersome process of turning complex, multi-source data into valuable business-ready information to drive better business outcomes.

Datameer Express on AWS helps teams within organizations to transform dispersed, multi-formatted data into business-ready information to fuel faster analytics and time to insight. Data exploration and preparation using Datameer Express allows teams to discover the value in their data before they can build full fledged business pipelines.

Installation Guides

• Quick Install Guide for Datameer Express on AWS
• Step-by-Step Install Guide for Datameer Express on AWS

Testing and Troubleshooting 

Health Check

After installing and logging into Datameer Express, open a default workbook preloaded in Datameer. If a default workbook can be accessed, Datameer is running properly. 

Troubleshooting

If the Datameer landing page is not displayed aftering installing Datameer Express:

1. SSH into the AWS server.
2. Check to see if the instance is running. 
   1. From the command line run sudo service conduct status to view the PID and current state of the instance.
3. Check the log file for any error or warning messages.
   1. The log files are located in /opt/datameer/current/logs
4. Restart the server.
   1. To stop the instance, run the command sudo service conductor stop
   2. To start the instance, run the command sudo service conductor start

If there is an install or usage fault with Datameer Express, contact support@datameer.com

Backup and Recovery

Datameer Express does not have backup and recovery services. Please see the AWS recommendation for backup and recovery using a snapshot of the EBS values.

Maintenance

Datameer Express has no routine maintence, upgrade, or software patch considerations.

The AWS marketplace will update you if there is an upgrade available. If an upgrade is available, deploy the new AMI on the instance.

If you want to move to an available upgrade, make a backup of your MySQL database on S3 or your local drive. After upgrading to the new AMI you can restore all your saved data and continue using Datameer Express.

Datameer Express does not require any key rotations. 

Emergency Maintenance

Datameer Express can run on any AWS region or availability zone EC2 instance. If your current instance zone is down, start Datameer from a running AWS EC2 instance.