Grafana (trial/beta/something)
Added 2022-06-29 01:13:00 +0000 UTCBefore I kick off, I just wanted to mention that updates on the Patreon are probably going to be slow over the next months as I'll be travelling, but thats not to say progress on SondeHub will slow down. Mark and Luke are always improving the platform.
Now onto Grafana. We've had a public OpenSearch cluster for sometime now, and while it does allow users access to query the data and make visualisations, accessibility has always been an issue. It requires logging in and finding the data that you are looking for. Due to AWS limitations there's no way of embedding the data or easily linking to other users. We've been constantly updating our OpenSearch version due to promises that some of these issues are fixed but at the end of the day it's still not as accessible as we'd like.
This is where Grafana fits in. It's an analytics platform that sits front of existing databases (in this case our OpenSearch cluster). It's very configurable and this allows us the ability to provide anonymous access. No logins required for viewing.
The data is much the same as what we have in OpenSearch but we have some more flexibility in how we display it. We can provide a payload_callsign picker that allows anyone to see data about any specific payload.
At the moment we only have dashboards for SondeHub amateur but if there is interest in specific data for regular SondeHub then we can certainly add some. We can also create dshboards specific to certain flights. Eg we might create a HORUS dashboard.
Here's a link to the dashboard above : https://grafana.v2.sondehub.org/d/HJgOZLq7k/basic?orgId=1&from=1655607254426&to=1655626915820&var-Payload=ITSWINDY
Feel to have a browse around and provide any feedback on dashboards you'd like to see.
