General options:

This is list of general options for Data Sources.

More detailed descriptions and additional information can be found in Data source overview

These options are inside given data source configuration file. For example: postgresTest-source_1.conf. The filename depends on the name of the data source → nameOfDataSource.conf.

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Key	Requirements	Conf File field	Description	Possible values	Default
Enabled	-	enabled	Enables or Disables the data source.	Boolean	True
Driver	-	driverConfig.name	The field allows either a new or existing JDBC driver to be specified.	String	-
JDBC URL	-	url	The url configuration will normally be build through the configuration wizard, or can be copied from an existing JDBC application.	String	(Generated based on driver)
Username	-	properties.user	It's used in various situations more here: User to use for health monitoring, and if no other authentication credentials are provided on a connection, as the default user to connect to the database	String	-
Password	-	properties.password	It's used in various situations more here: health checking the data source, To performing lag detection, to write to and read from the Heimdall schema, when doing cluster detection, when no user or password is specified in JDBC mode, In proxy mode, if proxy authentication is not provided.	String	-
Test query	-	properties.testQuery	This option is used in a variety of situations, including health checks, and verifying that a connection is still viable after an exception. It is also used in a variety of conditions when pooling is configured, in order to validate the connection while idle, etc.	String	-