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QuickLookup

QuickLookup publishes and queries three kinds of data service:

  • Time series return observations at a declared time grain.
  • Event feeds return event occurrences with arbitrary start and end times.
  • Lookups resolve supplied values such as coordinates, identifiers, or place names.

Time-series observations and events can be stored in QuickLookup's local ClickHouse, or read on demand from an approved CTX source. Customers choose the privacy policy. Account assignment comes from the signed-in identity and is not a form or API field.

Start with your task

  • Store time-series data

    Define the measurements, publish a private series, add observations, and query them.

    Publish a time series

  • Store events

    Define an event feed, publish it, add occurrences with stable identities, and query it.

    Publish an event feed

  • Find and query a service

    Search the catalogue, inspect the published contract, and run a request in the page.

    Open the query workbench

  • Resolve a place, read its day

    Turn a name, an address, coordinates, an IP, a phone number or a domain into a place, then read every source that a place and a date can answer, in one call.

    Resolve a place, read its day

  • Publish a grouped service

    Present several compatible time series as one product with a series selector.

    Publish a grouped service

  • Publish a lookup

    Expose an approved lookup source through a bounded, typed contract.

    Publish a lookup

  • Use the API

    Read the role-scoped OpenAPI contract and execute permitted operations inside the docs.

    Open the API explorer

Before you create anything

  1. Search the catalogue for an existing entity, unit, metric, dimension, source binding, or contract. Reuse it when the meaning matches.
  2. Choose stored only when QuickLookup will own the rows. Choose on_demand for an approved adapter, including CTX FDW relations.
  3. Choose the service's access policy. Local is private; sharing policies still require consumer entitlements.
  4. Save the draft, clear its readiness checks, and publish. Do not add stored rows until the publication is delivered.

Key terms

A time series or event feed is a published service definition. A data point is an observation belonging to a time series; it is not another service type. An event occurrence belongs to an event feed. See Data and service model for the full model.

Use Troubleshooting when a form is read-only, publication does not complete, a source is unavailable, or an API request is rejected.