Author of the book "Getting Started with Grafana", Ronald McCollam is a geek of all trades with experience ranging from full stack development to IT operations to management and sales. He has a strong background in open source software, starting when a stack of 3.5" Slackware floppies was the easy way to install Linux. He's managed IT operations in datacenters from back when the "cloud" was new and scary, built and run an OS certification program for hardware running Linux, and spent entirely too long thinking about observability. He's also a Certified Irish Whisky Taster.

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Prometheus and Pets: Monitoring Furry Friends with Metrics and IoT

Can Prometheus help take care of your pet? In this talk, we’ll explore how to use simple IoT devices and open source tools Prometheus and Grafana to monitor your pet’s activities in real-time.

This session will demonstrate how observability can go beyond servers and improve the lives of our four-legged friends.

We’ll cover using off-the-shelf components that can send data to Prometheus and react to alerts, visualizing water consumption and door use trends in Grafana, and alerting when something looks unusual.  We’ll review the architecture and see a live demonstration of this stack (hardware and software) in action!

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