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Summaries are not the original full articles. ## Belt and Suspenders and Possible Overcomplications in Home Control DevFeed: [Belt and Suspenders and Possible Overcomplications in Home Control]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Fuzzygroup Published: 2020-02-01T00:00:00Z Content type: opinion Language: en Sources: [Scott Johnson]() Topics: [systems](), [Time Series](), [Database]() Tags: [backup](), [database](), [hardware](), [home-control](), [influxdb](), [systems](), [time-series]() ### AI overview The author reflects on a home-control leak-monitoring system and argues that a sophisticated, remotely monitorable setup using InfluxDB can be complemented by a simpler, inexpensive backup because complex systems can fail and leaks may occur while someone is at home. ### Source excerpt I mildly shudder to write this post and I strongly hope that it received with all the good intentions that I have. I saw that my friend Greg Stein wrote a damn interesting post about home control and water sensors. Greg is one of those scarily smart folks that makes me feel a bit like a knuckle dragging monkey, who, at times, is picking things out of his fur and debating "should I eat this or not?". In this post, Greg builds a wonderful home control system that will notify him anywhere that he is in the world if a leak occurs (he had a fish tank leak that led to him say "hm... I can fix this"). This is utterly classic "Nerd Itch Scratching" and I actually love the solution that he came up with but it made me think a lot about the number of moving parts in his solution. I had a similar issue back in 2017 and I wrote up my solution at that time. This is one of those things where I suspect the actual answer is both things: The sophisticated approach that let's you monitor from anywhere and play with a time series database (InfluxDB; I'm jealous, TSDBs are cool) The brutally simply solution that I came up with because even if what I did isn't remotely monitorable, my solution is so simple (and cheap) that it qualifies as backup to the complex solution You spend more time at home than you do away which means that statistically the leak is more likely to happen when you are home. And because systems with lots of moving parts are inherently something that can break, having backup, even if imperfect might not be a bad idea. ## Grafana - installation and configuraton with InfluxDB and CollectD on Debian/Ubuntu DevFeed: [Grafana - installation and configuraton with InfluxDB and CollectD on Debian/Ubuntu]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Tom Published: 2016-01-10T00:00:00Z Content type: tutorial Language: en Sources: [Tomasz Gągor]() Topics: [Grafana](), [Debian](), [Ubuntu](), [MySQL](), [SQLite]() Tags: [apt](), [collectd](), [debian](), [grafana](), [https](), [influxdb](), [installation](), [linux](), [mysql](), [packages](), [permissions](), [play](), [port](), [scripted](), [sqlite](), [ubuntu]() ### AI overview A tutorial on installing and configuring Grafana with InfluxDB and CollectD on Debian or Ubuntu. It covers configuring the Grafana package repository, installing Grafana, choosing SQLite or configuring MySQL, connecting to Grafana on port 3000, and adding InfluxDB source data. ### Source excerpt Now when you have CollectD and InfluxDB installed you may configure Grafana 😃 First configure repo with current Grafana version (select your distro): curl https://packagecloud.io/gpg.key | sudo apt-key add - deb https://packagecloud.io/grafana/testing/debian/ wheezy main Now install package (on wheezy I needed to install apt-transport-https to allow installation of packages from repo via HTTPS): apt-get update apt-get install -y apt-transport-https apt-get install -y grafana By default Grafana will use sqlite database to keep information about users, etc: ## InfluxDB - installation and configuration on Debian/Ubuntu DevFeed: [InfluxDB - installation and configuration on Debian/Ubuntu]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Tom Published: 2016-01-09T00:00:00Z Content type: tutorial Language: en Sources: [Tomasz Gągor]() Topics: [Debian](), [Ubuntu](), [configuration](), [apt](), [cURL]() Tags: [apt](), [collectd](), [configuration](), [curl](), [debian](), [grafana](), [https](), [influxdb](), [installation](), [linux](), [ubuntu]() ### AI overview A tutorial explaining how to install and configure InfluxDB on Debian and Ubuntu. It covers adding the InfluxDB repository, installing the package, editing configuration settings, adjusting the port, and checking the web admin panel on port 8083. ### Source excerpt I wanted/needed some statistics on few my machines. I saw earlier grafana and was impressed so this was starting point. Then I started reading about graphite, carbon and whisper, and then... I found InfluxDB. Project is young but looks promising. Let's start! On project page there is no info about repo but it's available, configure it: curl -sL https://repos.influxdata.com/influxdb.key | apt-key add - echo "deb https://repos.influxdata.com/debian wheezy stable" > /etc/apt.sources.list.d/influxdb.conf for Ubuntu use url like (of course selecting your version): ## CollectD - installation and configuration with InfluxDB on Debian/Ubuntu DevFeed: [CollectD - installation and configuration with InfluxDB on Debian/Ubuntu]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Tom Published: 2016-01-08T00:00:00Z Content type: tutorial Language: en Sources: [Tomasz Gągor]() Topics: [configuration](), [Debian](), [Ubuntu](), [Grafana]() Tags: [collectd](), [configuration](), [debian](), [grafana](), [influxdb](), [installation](), [linux](), [packages](), [repo](), [statistics](), [ubuntu](), [whisper]() ### AI overview A tutorial on installing and configuring CollectD with InfluxDB on Debian or Ubuntu. It discusses package availability, backports for newer versions, configuration, plugins, and service restarting. ### Source excerpt I wanted/needed some statistics on few my machines. I saw earlier grafana and was impressed so this was starting point. Then I started reading about graphite, carbon and whisper, and then... I found InfluxDB. Project is young but looks promising1. Installation of collectd is easy on Debian because packages are in default repo. One problem is that packages may be old, ex. on wheezy it version 5.1. But in backports/backports-sloppy2 you may find current 5.5, so enable backports first: ## Realtime metrics with Go: Running InfluxDB in production DevFeed: [Realtime metrics with Go: Running InfluxDB in production]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Xoan Vilas Follow Published: 2015-04-14T00:00:00Z Content type: tutorial Language: en Sources: [Trivago]() Topics: [Time Series](), [telemetry](), [Grafana]() Tags: [backend](), [devops](), [grafana](), [influxdb](), [metrics](), [monitoring](), [production]() ### AI overview Trivago describes its production setup for storing real-time metrics in InfluxDB, using Collectd to collect metrics and Grafana for dashboards. The article discusses the deployment, scale, data-model choices, and limitations of the InfluxDB version in use. ### Source excerpt At trivago we love hotels above everything else, but we also like metrics, we love to measure everything, compare, decide, improve and then rinse and repeat. In this blog entry we are going to describe our experience with InfluxDB, a time series database that we are using to store some real time metrics.