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April 2018Docker|InfluxDBEveryone likes good old fashioned pen-and-paper (easy, and accessible) but data entry is becoming old-fashioned, too. The way of the world now is to automate everything you possibly can (from your lighting, to your garage door, to scheduling meetings,...
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July 2017Docker|Raspberry PiKegerator monitoring/volume tracking tool written in Python
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June 24, 2018InfluxDB|Node.jsWe wanted to build a service which can store price data for multiple financial products (like BTC future quoted in USD) and can answer time based price aggregation queries within milliseconds.
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January 10, 2018IoT and Sensor MonitoringHistorically embedded communications have been handled via either low level embedded interfaces that are hard to interface with at a high level and susceptible to noise such as SPI or I2C, analog buses such as a 4-20mA that require...
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December 7, 2017Grafana|InfluxDB|TelegrafTout commença lors d’une pause café avec mes chers collègues. L’un d’eux voulait connaître les outils existants pour collecter et analyser les métriques de serveurs Windows. Je ne sais pas s’il s’est rendu compte de mon embarras car, après...
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July 24, 2018Grafana|InfluxDBEccoci qua, oggi cavalco l’onda di uno dei trittici di moda al momento, e a ragion veduta. Il trittico in questione è DietPi come sistema operativo, InfluxDB come database e Grafana come visualizzatore.
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June 15, 2018InfluxDBAntes de empezar con las instalaciones, comandos, configuraciones etc. vamos a definir el escenario en el que trabajaremos.
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June 21, 2018InfluxDB|TelegrafPor ahora tenemos montado el servidor InfluxDB, donde almacenaremos los datos estadísticos de aquellos ordenadores que deseamos monitorizar. Lo que falta es instalar Telegraf en esos Ordenadores para que tome y envié esos datos estadísticos a nuestro InfluxDB.
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June 25, 2018InfluxDB|TelegrafAs part of my Home Automation series, we configured a Grafana dashboard to display status and statistics about SmartThings devices, the local weather and more. A few months ago, I retired an 8+ year old Windows Server storage solution...
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March 1, 2018Chronograf|InfluxDB|KapacitorI’ve recently consulted an IoT related project, where I suggested using InfluxData’s Services...
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January 15, 2018InfluxDBWe have a cheapo Chinese incubator for hatching eggs. According to popular Internet postings, the calibration of the 'temperature setting' on the front vs reality inside isn't terribly accurate. Since I have a stack of 'Ruuvitags' (https://ruuvi.com) from their...
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August 2018InfluxDB|KafkaThis project provides an API for developers to track live geographical data. The process starts by 1) a client sending formatted events to an API which 2) serves the event data onto a messaging queue 3) which is read...
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February 20, 2018Grafana|Raspberry PiIn diesem Tutorial will ich euch zeigen wie einfach ihr mit ESPEasy einen Sensor einbinden könnt und Daten übers WLAN mit MQTT verschicken könnt. ESPEasy ist ein umfangreiches Arduino Programm, das ihr nur auf einen ESP8266 kopieren könnt und...
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January 5, 2018InfluxDBMetrics in Influxdb can then be viewed using visualization tools like Grafana. There are several input and output plugins for telegraf, which can be included in the /etc/telegraf/telegraf.conf file to support wide range of metric sources and destinations.
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March 3, 2018GrafanaHere’s a short overview of a recent project for a client of ours that run some very large WiFi networks and need to let their clients have access to a simple status and performance Dashboard.
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February 20, 2018Grafana|InfluxDBThe Gatling team implemented a functionality that allows us to easily integrate Gatling with one of the most powerful tools for comprehensive system monitoring - Grafana (for detailed dashboards) and InfluxDB (for performance metrics storage).
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November 27, 2017Grafana|InfluxDBA smart home captures a lot of data. Visualizing that data can help you see long term trends in how your smart home is used.
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February 9, 2018Grafana|InfluxDBGet a Grafana and InfluxDB stack up and running with Docker to monitor multiple servers across instances. Learn more.
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No date providedGrafana|InfluxDB|TelegrafA pior parte de IoT pra mim é a parte visual. Confesso que não gosto de mexer com front-end, prefiro escrever meus firmwares e coletar dados via MQTT. Mas por esses dias venho tendo um interesse especial por gráficos,...
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May 3, 2016Grafana|InfluxDB|TelegrafAs a picture is worth a thousand words, we may want to visualise the oracle performance metrics. There is already several tools to do so, but what if you could do it the way you want? build your own...
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August 7, 2018Grafana|InfluxDB|TelegrafFirst of all I have to say, that I’m fairly into designing, although I don’t design things nor I know how to do it. However, I like things which are well and beautiful designed and I would say,...
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January 17, 2018GrafanaIn this final part of our Node-RED integration blog series, I will be covering how you can accelerate your website performance monitoring strategy by building a custom dashboard using the popular open data visualization platform, Grafana.
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February 21, 2018Grafana|InfluxDBThis blog post describes how you can use the open source tools Influx and Grafana along with a PowerShell module I've authored on Windows to create and populate interactive metric and monitoring dashboards like this one...
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May 14, 2017InfluxDB|Raspberry PiInfluxDB is an easy to use open-source time series database developed by InfluxData. It is written in Go and optimized for fast, high-availability storage and retrieval of time series data in fields such as operations monitoring, application metrics, Internet...
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April 18, 2017Grafana|InfluxDBAfter you have successfully setup your Kubernetes cluster, have built Docker images with your applications or microservices, and see them running, the next step is to configure a proper monitoring and alerting mechanism so that you’re aware of any...
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December 8, 2017DashboardAs you can imagine from my previous post (icinga2-classicui shows Whoops error on new Icinga 2.8 install) I'm currently setting up a renewed monitoring architecture running on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial. To my big surprise PNP4Nagios doesn't run anymore on Xenial...
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February 7, 2018Industry 4.0|InfluxDBSlideShare presentation in Spanish about Industry 4.0 - Presentación del evento Industria 4.0 que Plain Concepts organiza anualmente en Bilbao. Este año hablé de almacenamiento y procesamiento de grandes volumenes de datos, como los que generan las soluciones de...
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February 2018InfluxDBJust a bunch of scripts to insert data into a local InfluxDB instance for home monitoring. I've tried to make it modular/generic enough that anyone can throw their vars/settings in, and away you go.
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January 2017InfluxDBSlideshow about InfluxDB from a talk in Ottawa - Let's play with time-series databases!
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January 24, 2018Grafana|InfluxDBそこで本日は InfluxDB Grafana を使用し、golang標準パッケージexpvar からメトリクス情報を取得し、goroutine の数が増加した時の、メトリクスデータをグラフで可視化していきたいと思います。
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July 21, 2018Grafana|InfluxDBAs RRDTool wasn’t a perfect tool for storing sensor data, I tried a newer datastore: InfluxDB. It is a database designed specifically for time-series data, such as my temperature readings here.
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July 16, 2018Grafana|InfluxDBO InfluxDB é um banco de dados de séries temporais de código aberto desenvolvido pela InfluxData. Ele está escrito em Go e otimizado para armazenamento rápido e de alta disponibilidade e recuperação de dados de séries temporais em campos...
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August 1, 2018InfluxDB|Raspberry PiIt’s been a while since I last got to work with a Linux cluster, so I decided to build an affordable cluster of raspberry Pi computers. It took an entire afternoon to build! The cluster had 16 cores, 4gb...
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June 6, 2018InfluxDB|Raspberry PiInfluxDB est une base de données Open Source pour séries temporelles développée par la société InfluxData qui fonctionne sur Windows 64-bits, macOS ou sur la distribution Raspbian du Raspberry Pi. Dans ce tutoriel nous allons apprendre comment installer InfluxDB...
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August 6, 2018Docker|InfluxDBThis video is a tutorial on how to install InfluxDB in a Docker container!
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July 3, 2018InfluxDBAs well as my main gig, I do some work with the excellent folks at Jump Trading. My main focus there so far has been finalising and open sourcing a project - implemented in Go - called influx-spout.
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November 11, 2017InfluxDB|TICK StackLast week in CrossEngage Academy we had another session. This time it was by me, about my favorite stack so far (after using it for 2 years it's still!), InfluxDB and TICK Stack!
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InfluxDBDevices from the IoT realm generate data in a rate and magnitude that make it practically impossible to retrieve valuable information without support of adequate AI engines. Although being one among many solutions available, Azure ML has proved to...
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May 17, 2018InfluxDBLoRa App Server can now export decoded payload data directly to InfluxDB.
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June 3, 2018Go|IoT and Sensor MonitoringMainflux is a modern, scalable, secure, open source and patent-free IoT cloud platform written in the Go progamming language. It accepts connections over multiple network protocols (i.e. HTTP, MQTT, WebSocket), thus making a seamless bridge between them. It is...
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March 1, 2018Grafana|InfluxDB|TelegrafAquí estamos de vuelta. Hoy os voy hablar de una excelente combinación de productos, que nos ayudarán a monitorizar, a nivel gráfico, nuestro servidores. Los productos en cuestión son InfluxDB, un motor de base de datos, de serie de...
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July 1, 2018Grafana|InfluxDBSo a couple of months ago I wrote this post about how to setup InfluxDB and Grafana to show UPS stats. And in that post I used the telegraf database that was already present. I used that database out of...
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August 4, 2016Grafana|InfluxDB|TelegrafI needed a way to monitor Docker resource usage and metrics (CPU, Memory, Network, Disk). I also wanted historical data, and ideally, pretty graphs that I could navigate and drill into.
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November 7, 2016Grafana|InfluxDB|Telegrafcommandes ne sont peut-être plus valides. Avec les problèmes à répétition que rencontre la connexion ADSL de ma mère depuis un an, et la Freebox n’enregistrant que les douze derniers évènements de déconnexion/connexion, j’ai cherché une solution pour collecter plus...
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June 14, 2016Grafana|InfluxDB|TelegrafJ’ai récemment essayé une nouvelle solution pour surveiller ma petite Kimsufi, et cette solution s’appuie sur une base de données de série temporelle (Time Series Database). Je n’a jamais abordé ce sujet sur le blog alors qu’on entend de...
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May 29, 2018Grafana|InfluxDB|TelegrafI regularly check my pf(4) activity using pfctl(8) and pflogd(8). I already monitored pf using collectd(1) and rrdtool. This time, I wanted to use my already configured InfluxDB/Grafana system. The thing is, Telegraf is not (yet) available in OpenBSD...
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December 7, 2017InfluxDBThis short how-to article focuses on monitoring Spark Streaming applications with InfluxDB and Grafana at scale. Both tools are widely used in enterprises and therefore don't add additional complexity to existing IT landscapes.
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July 24, 2018Grafana|Industry 4.0|Raspberry PiI recently started looking into ways of monitoring the temperature and humidity in my garage – for two reasons. Firstly, I have my lab workload cluster out there in the form of a Dell C6100, and I’ve noticed with...
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January 25, 2018Raspberry PiThe project aims to use a Raspberry Pi as a standalone device that monitors the temperature, relative humidity, pressure, light intensity and air quality. To make this data useful though, I want to send the it to a server...
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September 20, 2016DashboardTL;DR: Look into TICK if you feel the alternatives are too expensive, lack features, have bad clients, you’d like control over managing your data, or you’re simply interested in a promising tool for time-series data.
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Dec 28, 2017DevOps MonitoringAs you can imagine from my previous post (icinga2-classicui shows Whoops error on new Icinga 2.8 install) I'm currently setting up a renewed monitoring architecture running on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial. To my big surprise PNP4Nagios doesn't run anymore on Xenial...
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June 2018Grafana|InfluxDBLas bases de datos de series cronológicas (Time series Databases) pueden entenderse a grandes rasgos como motores de almacenamiento clave-valor donde la clave es un timestamp.
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June 2018Grafana|InfluxDB|PythonLas bases de datos de series cronológicas (Time series Databases) pueden entenderse a grandes rasgos como motores de almacenamiento clave-valor donde la clave es un timestamp. Dicho de esta manera es fácil darse cuenta de los casos de uso...
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February 6, 2018DevOps MonitoringThe main goal of collecting metrics is to store them for long term usage and to create graphs to debug problems or identify trends. However, storing metrics about your system isn’t enough to identity the problem’s & anomalies root...
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July 11, 2018InfluxDB|KapacitorTo paraphrase H.S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, ’We had two virtual machines, seventy-five sites, thousands of metrics and machines to monitor, a bunch of Python scripts, one database and one message queue, InfluxDB, and a whole...
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March 10, 2016InfluxDBTraditional opensource performance management tools like Cacti, MRTG all have the same problem. Due to the way they store their metrics in multiple files they are unable to store all the data in due time. New techniques like timeTime-series...
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June 4, 2018Grafana|InfluxDBI must admit this post is just an excuse to play with Grafana and InfluxDb. InfluxDB is a cool database especially designed to work with time series. Grafana is one open source tool for time series analytics. I want...
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May 11, 2018Grafana|InfluxDB|TelegrafComment utiliser les roles Ansible de Manala pour provisionner simplement une stack de monitoring Telegraf + InfluxDB + Grafana
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June 19, 2018InfluxDBThis video is a tutorial on how to install influxDB and set it up to pull in data from Home Assistant.
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February 23, 2018Grafana|InfluxDB|IoT and Sensor MonitoringRaspberry Pi 3 with Mosquitto, Node-RED, InfluxDB, Grafana and Nginx (as a reverse proxy)
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October 8, 2017Grafana|InfluxDBWe can take a glimpse at our applications or we can truly see them. We have a choice.
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June 14, 2018Grafana|InfluxDBIn the last two blogs Getting Started (Part 1) and Stepping back a bit (Part 1.1) I looked at what data I could source from the boat's instrumentation and introduced some new hardware to the boat to support the...
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June 3, 2017InfluxDBO InfluxDB é um banco utilizado para manipular séries temporais, mas desejo tratar aqui um pouco melhor o conceito de série temporal e a estrutura básica desse banco de dados.
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February 14, 2018Chronograf|Grafana|InfluxDBS7Web pushes every state change to the time series database InfluxDB . Together with tools like Grafana and Chronograf plus Kapacitor from the TICK Stack we can visualize and understand our data over time, moreover we can set...
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August 29, 2015Docker|Grafana|InfluxDBAs a software engineer, I eventually need to collect metrics from my development environment to be graphed and measured. I found a very portable solution based on Docker containers, InfluxDB as time series store and Grafana as visualization tool.
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October 4, 2017InfluxDB|TICK StackSlideShare Presentation about the TICK Stack and InfluxDB
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July 4, 2018TICK StackEn este tutorial vamos a explicar el stack tecnológico ofrecido por InfluxData que sirve para procesar, analizar y almacenar datos de series temporales. Ofrece las principales piezas del stack como Open Source y un servicio administrado en la nube...
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September 11, 2016DashboardI have been collecting currency data (once every hour) over the last couple of years, using a Node.JS retriever. The data goes in to a Mongo DB instance. We store the timestamp and all the currency pairings against the...
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October 1, 2016Docker|Grafana|InfluxDBIn this article, I will explain how to use docker to setup a simple monitoring stack by using collectd, influxdb and grafana.
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May 1, 2018Grafana|InfluxDBIn Teil 1 hatte ich ja bereits beschrieben wie ihr ein ein Gateway mittels Resin.io aufbauen könnt und ein einfaches Monitoring startet. Nachdem ich nun den Beitrag von Keptenkurk gelesen habe, musste ich mein Monitoring erweitern, bzw. erst mal...
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May 14, 2018InfluxDBAt its core, this is a time series use case, and I was inspired by a talk from @vsivsi at the Cabled Array Hack Week where he talked about using some DevOps tools, including InfluxDB, as a way to...
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May 6, 2018Grafana|InfluxDB|TelegrafI wanted to graph and monitor my Internet usage. I already have some great system monitoring and graphing setup using Grafana, InfluxDB and Telegraf on my unRAID boxes by following PanzerschreckGER’s Reddit Tutorial.
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May 6, 2018Grafana|InfluxDB|TelegrafI wanted to graph and monitor my Internet usage. I already have some great system monitoring and graphing setup using Grafana, InfluxDB and Telegraf on my unRAID boxes by following PanzerschreckGER’s Reddit Tutorial.
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December 28, 2017InfluxDBInfluxDB is a high-performance store for time-series data. It supports insertion and real-time querying of data via a SQL-like query language. In this introductory article, we’ll demonstrate how to connect to an InfluxDb server, create a database, write time-series information,...
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November 24, 2017Grafana|InfluxDB|TelegrafTwo years ago I wrote about how to use InfluxDB & Grafana for better visualization of network statistics. I still loathe MRTG graphs, but configuring InfluxSNMP was a bit of a pain. Luckily it’s now much easier to collect...
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June 20, 2018Chronograf|InfluxDB|Raspberry Pi|TelegrafLes objets connectés IoT envahissent notre monde chaque jour d’avantage. Bonne ou mauvaise chose ? je ne me prononcerai pas. Pour mieux comprendre comment ça fonctionne, je vous propose cet article de découverte de MQTT.
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January 2018SparkThe sensorpi repo on GitHub holds various ramblings, scripts and code put together for and experiment to visualise realtime sensor data processed on a cluster of Raspberry Pis. Not dissimilar to https://www.circuits.dk/datalogger-example-using-sense-hat-influxdb-grafana/ but using the features of the cluster...
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August 2, 2017Grafana|InfluxDBMy Home Assistant on my PI does collect a lot of data, not only the status of switches, lights and other sensors, but also data from my (dutch) energy meter via the DSMR/Slimme meter component. Until now I didn’t...
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July 8, 2018Go|Grafana|InfluxDBSome day ago, I discovered a feature in my F1 2017 Game(PS4), navigating in a menu I sow an option called UDP Telemetry Settings with many network configurations, as shown below.
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May 28, 2018Grafana|InfluxDB제목은 저렇지만 정확히는 Xiaomi 온습도 센서로 측정한 값을 Smart Things가 받고 그걸 InfluxDB에 저장해서 Grafana로 그린다가 되겠다. 해놓고 나니 이게 큰 의미가 있나 싶지만 준비해 놓은지는 꽤 되었으니 정리하는 차원에서. 성공한 기업가들이 내가 하고 싶은걸 하지 말고 고객이 원하는걸...
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July 15, 2018Grafana|InfluxDB|TelegrafВ цій публікації я розкажу про те як побудувати графік зміни якоїсь змінної в реальному часі. Наприклад якоїсь ціни, чи кількості запитів до сервера. Ключові слова: Docker, Docker compose, time series database, InfluxDB, Grafana, Telegraf. Всі крім докера будуть...
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June 15, 2018Grafana|InfluxDB好像是3.22开始，V2Ray开始支持通过API查看用户流量，动态增删用户，向机场化又迈进了一步。最近也不少前端面板出来了，不过像我这种自用的专门装个面板也麻烦，加上一直在用Grafana+Influxdb在监控小鸡，想着是不是能把V2Ray的统计数据送到Influxdb，然后由Grafana绘图。查询点文档后，发现Influxdb支持HTTP API，用Curl就能实现，好像在能力范围内，折腾半天还是弄出来了。