Project TTN Daten in InfluxDB für Grafana

Flexible Visualization of TTN Data

This page describes installing Grafana and InfluxDB on openSuse 42.2. It also describes how to configure apache 2.4 to recieve data from a Things Network applications HTTP integration and store it in an InfluxDB database. Finally it shows how to create a Grafana dashboard to display the data from the InfluxDB.

InfluxDB

Installing InfluxDB

Here is the Download Portal Currently, it tells me to

wget https://dl.influxdata.com/influxdb/releases/influxdb-1.7.9.x86_64.rpm
sudo zypper install influxdb-1.7.9.x86_64.rpm

It warns about missing package shadow-util. On openSuse this is named shadow and is installed -> ignore.

To use systemd for managing the database service, copy the service file

sudo cp -av /usr/lib/influxdb/scripts/influxdb.service /etc/systemd/system/

For later versions of openSuse, Influx Installation Documentation suggests using a repository - should have the same results:

sudo zypper ar -f obs://devel:languages:go/ go
sudo zypper in influxdb

Configure InfluxDB

sudo vi /etc/influxdb/influxdb.conf

Start InfluxDB

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable influxdb
sudo systemctl start influxdb
sudo systemctl status influxdb

Test InfluxDB

Call the CLI and insert some test data. More details here: https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v1.7/tools/shell/

influx
 CREATE DATABASE my_test_db
 USE my_test_db
 INSERT my_table,my_key=my_test my_value=1
 INSERT my_table,my_key=my_test my_value=2
 INSERT my_table,my_key=my_test my_value=3
 SELECT * FROM my_table
 QUIT

Grafana

Install Grafana

Here are the installation instructions. Basically just do

wget https://dl.grafana.com/oss/release/grafana-6.5.2-1.x86_64.rpm 
sudo zypper install grafana-6.5.2-1.x86_64.rpm 

It complains about missing urw-fonts, but they are not really required -> ignore. Also accept there is no signing key

Start Grafana

sudo systemctl daemon-reload 
sudo systemctl enable grafana-server.service 
sudo systemctl start grafana-server.service 
sudo systemctl status grafana-server.service