Phillips Hue Bridge and OpenObserve Integration

Input and output integration overview

This plugin gathers status from Hue Bridge devices using the CLIP API interface.

This configuration pairs Telegraf’s HTTP output with OpenObserve’s native JSON ingestion API, turning any Telegraf agent into a first-class OpenObserve collector.

Integration details

Phillips Hue Bridge

The Hue Bridge plugin allows users to gather real-time status from Philips Hue Bridge devices utilizing the CLIP API interface. By communicating with Hue Bridges, this plugin is capable of retrieving various metrics related to home lighting and environmental conditions. It offers multiple schemes for accessing the bridges, such as local LAN, cloud, and mDNS, ensuring flexibility in deployment scenarios. The plugin can handle diverse configurations such as room assignments for devices, which optimizes the evaluation of statuses, especially in environments with many devices. Furthermore, it provides various monitoring metrics applicable to lights, temperature sensors, motion sensors, and device power status, thereby enabling comprehensive insights into a smart home setup. The configuration options allow users to tailor their connections to optimize performance and security, including optional TLS configurations for secure communication.

OpenObserve

OpenObserve is an open source observability platform written in Rust that stores data cost-effectively on object storage or local disk. It exposes REST endpoints such as /api/{org}/ingest/metrics/_json that accept batched metric documents conforming to a concise JSON schema, making it an attractive drop-in replacement for Loki or Elasticsearch stacks. The Telegraf HTTP output plugin streams metrics to arbitrary HTTP targets; when the "data_format = "json"" serializer is selected, Telegraf batches its metric objects into a payload that matches OpenObserve’s ingestion contract. The plugin supports configurable batch size, custom headers, TLS, and compression, allowing operators to authenticate with Basic or Bearer tokens and to enforce back-pressure without additional collectors. By reusing existing Telegraf agents already collecting system, application, or SNMP data, organizations can funnel rich telemetry into OpenObserve dashboards and SQL-like analytics with minimal overhead, enabling unified observability, long-term retention, and real-time alerting without vendor lock-in.

Configuration

Phillips Hue Bridge

[[inputs.huebridge]]
  ## URL of bridges to query in the form ://:@
/
  ## See documentation for available schemes.
  bridges = [ "address://:@/" ]

  ## Manual device to room assignments to apply during status evaluation.
  ## E.g. for motion sensors which are reported without a room assignment.
  # room_assignments = { "Motion sensor 1" = "Living room", "Motion sensor 2" = "Corridor" }

  ## Timeout for gathering information
  # timeout = "10s"

  ## Optional TLS Config
  # tls_ca = "/etc/telegraf/ca.pem"
  # tls_cert = "/etc/telegraf/cert.pem"
  # tls_key = "/etc/telegraf/key.pem"
  # tls_key_pwd = "secret"
  ## Use TLS but skip chain & host verification
  # insecure_skip_verify = false
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OpenObserve

[[outputs.http]]
  ## OpenObserve JSON metrics ingestion endpoint
  url = "https://api.openobserve.ai/api/default/ingest/metrics/_json"

  ## Use POST to push batches
  method = "POST"

  ## Basic auth header (base64 encoded "username:password")
  headers = { Authorization = "Basic dXNlcjpwYXNzd29yZA==" }

  ## Timeout for HTTP requests
  timeout = "10s"

  ## Override Content-Type to match OpenObserve expectation
  content_type = "application/json"

  ## Force Telegraf to batch and serialize metrics as JSON
  data_format = "json"

  ## JSON serializer specific options
  json_timestamp_units = "1ms"

  ## Uncomment to restrict batch size
  # batch_size = 5000

Input and output integration examples

Phillips Hue Bridge

1. Automated Lighting Control Based on Room Occupancy: Utilize the Hue Bridge plugin to monitor motion sensors within various rooms of a home. When motion is detected, the system can automatically trigger the lights to turn on, providing convenience and energy efficiency. This integration could significantly enhance user experience and preferences, adapting the lighting to occupancy levels without manual intervention.

2. Environmental Monitoring in Smart Homes: Implement the Hue Bridge plugin to track temperature and light levels within the house. By continuously monitoring these metrics, users can create a comfortable indoor climate, adjusting heating and cooling systems based on temperature trends or activating lights based on light levels detected. This data-driven approach leads to smart home automation that responds to actual environmental conditions.

3. Integration with Home Automation Systems: Leverage this plugin to integrate Philips Hue Bridge statistics into broader home automation frameworks. For example, collecting light and temperature data can feed into a centralized dashboard that provides homeowners with insights about their energy usage patterns. Environments can be programmed to respond proactively to user habits, promoting efficiency and energy conservation.

4. Battery Monitoring for Smart Devices: Use the Hue Bridge plugin to monitor battery levels across various connected smart devices. By being alerted about low battery states, homeowners can take timely actions to replace or recharge devices, preventing outages and ensuring smooth operation of their smart home systems.

OpenObserve

1. Edge Device Health Mirror: Deploy Telegraf on thousands of industrial IoT devices to capture temperature, vibration, and power metrics, then use this output to push JSON batches to OpenObserve. Plant operators gain a real-time overview of machine health and can trigger maintenance based on anomalies without relying on heavyweight collectors.

2. Blue-Green Deployment Canary: Attach a lightweight Telegraf sidecar to each Kubernetes release-candidate pod that scrapes /metrics and forwards container stats to a dedicated “canary” stream in OpenObserve. Continuous comparison of error rates between blue and green versions empowers the CI pipeline to auto-roll back poor performers within seconds.

3. Multi-Tenant SaaS Billing Pipeline: Emit per-customer usage counters via Telegraf and tag them with tenant_id; the HTTP plugin posts them to OpenObserve where SQL reports aggregate usage into invoices, eliminating separate metering services and simplifying compliance audits.

4. Security Threat Scoring: Fuse Suricata events and host resource metrics in Telegraf, deliver them to OpenObserve’s analytics engine, and run stream-processing rules that correlate spikes in suspicious traffic with CPU saturation to produce an actionable threat score and automatically open tickets in a SOAR platform.

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