Visualizing with Grafana
Grafana is a powerful tool for IoT data visualization. It is an open-source project available to everyone, but we also have a cloud option with AWS Managed Grafana, which frees us from any server management overhead. Some key features of Grafana are:
- Workspaces for developers to design dashboards for end users
- Easy integration with multiple data sources with plugins
- Easy manipulation and transformation of data with SQL
- A wide variety of customizable graph types for different needs
In this example, we will utilize AWS Managed Grafana to visualize the light data of the previous example. Here is an overview of what we will do in this example:
- We will create an Amazon Timestream database and a table in it for the light data. Amazon Timestream is a managed time-series database that comes with all the advantages of using the AWS cloud, such as no server to manage, auto-scaling, auto-encryption, etc.
- We will...
