In this exercise, we'll launch Instaview from the Start menu and connect to the MongoDB database to build an Analyzer Report, showing total session duration by browser and referring URL.
Click Instaview from the Windows Start menu.
Instaview will take a few seconds to launch, and then you will be presented with two buttons. Click on the Create New button.
You have the option to choose which Big Data technology to analyze. Select MongoDB and click on OK.
The MongoDB Input step will appear and expose four important tabs for configuration to retrieve records from a single collection. These four tabs are described in the following bullets:
Configure connection: Configure a server connection with the following default information:
Host name
:localhost
andPort
:27017
Input options: Configure a database and collection by clicking on the Get buttons and selecting the following values:
Database
:pentaho
andCollection
:sessions_events
Query: This tab is used to...