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I find it confusing that these solutions seem to conflate time series storage/querying with visualization. Is there a reason for this? I recall that Kibana is

by svckr 11y ago

I find it confusing that these solutions seem to conflate time series storage/querying with visualization. Is there a reason for this? I recall that Kibana is a plugin for Elastic Search but don't know about the others. Isn't it possible to connect a hypothetical standalone visualization frontend to any TSDB?

nemo44x 11y ago
Kibana 3 and earlier was a plugin for Elasticsearch. However, Kibana 4 is a stand alone application. Also, Kibana 4 uses Elasticsearch aggregations instead of Lucene Facets.
gh02t 11y ago
Grafana is sort of that. It's a visualization tool that can use a bunch of different TSDBs as the backend. I use it with InfluxDB to track and plot sensor data from my home IoT setup. Basically all sensors (primarily temp because it controls my thermostat) are connected to an isolated WLAN and broadcast do their readings via MQTT. A process on the server collects them and stores them in Influx, which Grafana can use to make nice plots. It's quite easy to use actually. The TSDBs I tested when I was building this setup (Graphite, OpenTSDB and InfluxDB) all had some sort of basic plotting facilities, but they were extremely minimal and all pointed towards Grafana if you wanted something more substantial.
- emilburzo 11y ago
  > sensor data from my home IoT setup Have you documented your setup anywhere? I'm DIY-ing something similar and I'm always curious how others have approached things.
  - gh02t 11y ago
    I haven't, unfortunately. I'm planning on doing it eventually, but it'll probably be a while. The tl;dr though is a RasPi hosting a local-only wifi network and Mosquitto + ESP8266's everywhere. I was originally going to go for Arudino+NRF24 wireless, but ESP8266 is cheaper, smaller, longer range, simpler and still compatible with the Arduino library.

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I find it confusing that these solutions seem to conflate time series storage/querying with visualization. Is there a reason for this? I recall that Kibana is

by svckr 11y ago

nemo44x 11y ago
Kibana 3 and earlier was a plugin for Elasticsearch. However, Kibana 4 is a stand alone application. Also, Kibana 4 uses Elasticsearch aggregations instead of Lucene Facets.
gh02t 11y ago
Grafana is sort of that. It's a visualization tool that can use a bunch of different TSDBs as the backend. I use it with InfluxDB to track and plot sensor data from my home IoT setup. Basically all sensors (primarily temp because it controls my thermostat) are connected to an isolated WLAN and broadcast do their readings via MQTT. A process on the server collects them and stores them in Influx, which Grafana can use to make nice plots. It's quite easy to use actually. The TSDBs I tested when I was building this setup (Graphite, OpenTSDB and InfluxDB) all had some sort of basic plotting facilities, but they were extremely minimal and all pointed towards Grafana if you wanted something more substantial.
- emilburzo 11y ago
  > sensor data from my home IoT setup Have you documented your setup anywhere? I'm DIY-ing something similar and I'm always curious how others have approached things.
  - gh02t 11y ago
    I haven't, unfortunately. I'm planning on doing it eventually, but it'll probably be a while. The tl;dr though is a RasPi hosting a local-only wifi network and Mosquitto + ESP8266's everywhere. I was originally going to go for Arudino+NRF24 wireless, but ESP8266 is cheaper, smaller, longer range, simpler and still compatible with the Arduino library.