The LSST EFD Client¶
The LSST EFD Client helps you access the LSST Engineering Facility Database (EFD), which is backed by InfluxDB.
The client, EfdClient
handles authentication and provides convenience methods for accessing data in ready-to-use formats:
get_topics
- Get the topics in the EFD.
get_fields
- Get the fields in a particular topic.
build_time_range_query
- Build an InfluxQL query for a topic and time range.
select_time_series
:- Get a
DataFrame
containing results of a time range query. select_packed_time_series
:- Get a
DataFrame
with high cadence telemetry expanded into a singleDataFrame
. select_top_n
- Get a
DataFrame
with the results of just the most recent rows.
Follow the Getting started guide to start accessing EFD data. Also, check out the demo notebooks for examples.
Using lsst_efd_client¶
Python API reference¶
lsst_efd_client Package¶
Collection of EFD utilities
Classes¶
NotebookAuth ([service_endpoint]) |
Class to help keep authentication credentials secret. |
EfdClient (efd_name[, db_name, port, …]) |
Class to handle connections and basic queries |
Contributing¶
lsst_efd_client
is developed at https://github.com/lsst-sqre/lsst-efd-client.
Please use GitHub issues in the project repository to report problems and contribute.