Hi all, I'm just trying out Meltano for the first time. I set it up using the one click Digital Ocean droplet installer. I was trying to install a custom tap (tap-surveymonkey) so I went into the

/var/meltano/project

dir and did

meltano add --custom extractor

then followed the prompts. This seemed to do mess up the

meltano.yml

file and when I refreshed I got a 500 error. Where are logs located? Is this the wrong way to install a custom tap?

Hey @al_whatmough! The

meltano add --custom extractor

command indeed updates the

meltano.yml

file with the new extractor. But you have to then make some additional updates on your end. Can you please check our Tutorial on how to add

tap-postgres

? https://meltano.com/tutorials/postgres-with-postgres.html We also have documentation on adding a custom extractor in general in the following link: https://meltano.com/tutorials/create-a-custom-extractor.html

Thanks @yannis_roussos ! I had a look at the tap-postgres gudie. Since I'm using the Digital Ocean quick start, I already have a project set up by default so do I not need to follow the steps to create a new project using meltano init? I guess if I did that I'd have two meltano.yml files

Yes no need to create a new project

That makes sense - thanks for the explanation. Droplet is a nice way to quickly get up and running and try it out. For development I'll set up a different instance

Just FYI, you can get CLI access to your Droplet https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/droplets/how-to/connect-with-ssh/openssh/