grafana

In a previous blog post I wrote about collecting server statistics with Collectd, passing them to InfluxDB and graphing them with Grafana. Using “Retention Policies” (RPs) and “Continuous Queries” (CQs) metrics could be downsampled to reduce storage usage. This blog post shows how to do the same with InfluxDB v2. InfluxDB v2 At the end of 2020 InfluxDB v2 was released. Moving to InfluxDB v2 with the setup I had (Collectd input, downsampling) came with some challenges:...

It’s a little over a year ago that I got solar panels installed on my roof. Not a Tesla Solar Roof, but the most efficient solar panels available last year. From SunPower. The SPR-X21-350-BLK. Together with a SolarEdge SE5K converter its producing 5300 Watt during peak hours. I’m interested if a Tesla Powerwall is worth it financially. Will it pay back the investment in a reasonable amount of time? In the Netherlands there is still a net metering policy until 2023, which means that you can administratively subtract the electricity you have delivered to, from what you have used from the electricity network....

Almost 10 years ago I started developing a web frontend for collectd, Collectd Graph Panel (CGP). A PHP frontend that displays graphs in PNG format using rrdtool and the RRD files created by collectd. A lot has happened since then. Because of the IoT hype time series databases like Graphite, InfluxDB and TimescaleDB became more popular. Also visualization tools gained more traction, of which Grafana is the most popular one....

A while ago I was researching the possibilities to measure the power consumption of some devices in my house via Wifi. I came across the Broadlink SP3S Smart Plug. It met my requirements: relatively cheap, power measurement and Wifi. It comes with an IOS and Android App. There a big chance the app is not directly connecting to the SP3S, but to “the Cloud” where the SP3S sends its data to....