6 posts tagged with “monitoring”

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OpenTelemetry for IoT Metrics

Observability is vital for remotely operated embedded devices, and we at balena always are on the lookout for better solutions. OpenTelemetry (OTel) is a CNCF project to provide vendor neutral reporting for metrics, logs, and traces. This post describes our encouraging exploration of OTel with Prometheus metrics and Grafana Cloud, like the overview below of a balena device. We also created a…

August 13, 2023 / 4 min

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balenaSense v2: Updated temperature, pressure, and humidity monitoring for Raspberry Pi

Welcome to version 2.0 of balenaSense, featuring a number of radical changes that rendered previous guides somewhat outdated. Using an outdated guide is no fun, so, we present a new project tutorial for balenaSense v2. balenaSense was designed to make it easy to take temperature, humidity, barometric pressure and other readings from sensors and provide a dashboard to see this information at a…

July 09, 2021 / 17 min

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IoT fleet monitoring with Datadog and balenaCloud: How small agent containers make a big impact

One challenge of managing a fleet of dispersed IoT devices is gathering and monitoring device metrics in real-time. Let’s check out how companies like Datadog are adding monitoring capabilities using lightweight containers that are ideal for IoT and edge devices. Datadog’s newest monitoring agent requires as little as 36MB of memory, 63MB of disk space, and very modest network throughput to…

February 24, 2021 / 9 min

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Keeping a watchful-eye on WiFi and cellular networks in Ghana with balenaCloud

Balena user Sam Moorhouse writes a guest blog post to tell us about how he's using Raspberry Pi devices on balenaCloud to monitor ISP-supplied 4G (cellular) routers in Ghana. His project watchful-eye keeps eyes 👀 on these devices which are used as a fallback connectivity option for his charity project Global Code which runs a summer program each year teaching students in Ghana about the joys of…

May 31, 2019 / 4 min

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Monitoring the edge with Prometheus pt. 1

A method of self-similar monitoring for the edge. Properly monitoring a fleet of devices is an evolving art. One of the current leaders in the server world for application and hardware monitoring is Prometheus, both for bare metal and as a first-class citizen in the Kubernetes world. In order to reduce the friction between the edge and the cloud, this project will deploy a Prometheus stack to…

May 06, 2019 / 8 min

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Monitoring your balena devices with Datadog

Updated 28 July 2020: Double-checked that we're using the latest Datadog build steps. Here at balena, we have developed a complete set of tools to deploy and manage your fleet of IoT devices, but what if you also want a monitor detailed metrics of a single device or of your entire fleet? That’s when Datadog comes into play as a great complement to your balenaCloud setup. Datadog is software as a…

January 10, 2019 / 6 min