Configuration for Grafana

With Grafana and InfluxDB you can log data from the Gataway and make beautiful graphs and nice dashboards.

The Gateway communicates via MQTT and publishes and listens to a number of topics. You can integrate this into InfluxDB with Telegraf.

See the topic on the Grafana example [1] for a simple configuration example.

You need to add the following in the Telegraf config:

Topics = [
    “ems-esp/#,
]

And tell it that data is set to json;

Data_format = “json”

MQTT structure

See Proddy’s EMS-ESP Wiki [2] for all the details on MQTT.

Another way to make Grafana dashboards is with Promotheus and API calls instead of MQTT. See the other article HERE.