Making really cool graphs with InfluxDB and Grafana - Tonight!

Hey,

I’ll be doing a super brief intro to graphing with InfluxDB and Grafana. If you don’t know what that means, you can make stuff like this:

Display data like this:

That’s just an example. Those are not the same datapoints. The graph is actually showing recent price + trade volume of Bitcoin.

Some use-cases:
@Logan_Buchy built an ESP8266 temperature logger in the space, and that can be graphed live for everyone to see.
I get my Raspberry Pis to send their internal IP to my server, so I don’t need to scan my network every time I plug it into a new place.
As you can see above, I graph Bitcoin prices, and other currencies (I made like 5 bucks off the Mexican Peso a few months ago!)
Next year, I will be logging temperature, humidity, and pH of my garden.

And a million more!

This is a no-charge event, and very informal. Show up around 6 with a laptop, and I’ll spend an hour or two walking people through how to send data to our server, and then link up Grafana to display pretty pretty data. I am not an expert! I have not done any preparation!

More info:
VHS wiki on how to access our instance
Writing data to InfluxDB
Syntax of InfluxDB
Grafana (Self-explanatory, once you get started)

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This seems great. Would you consider doing this topic again, with a little more notice? I would like to attend but had already made plans.

Sounds like there’s enough traction to do some preparation and run a proper
workshop at some point.

Likely won’t be until January, my month is filling up.

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Excellent. I will nag you later.

Hello @Jarrett could you help me with sending data with ESP8266 directly to InfluxDB?