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Smart Home Observability with Cribl

Cribl User Group Talk I was invited to give a Talk about some of the "Smart Home" use cases I created with Cribl during the October 2023 Cribl UG Meeting. The presentation was based around my Mini Photovoltaic setup (a.k.a. "Balkonkraftwerk") that I monitor with free tools and the main data hub is Cribl. Here is a summary, YouTube and PDF copy of the slides from the session.
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Cribl: Send Data to Google Sheets

  What This is the second of a series of Posts where I want to show some Private and/or   "Smart Home" use cases that involve Cribl . Cribl (Stream) is a  Log/Data Streaming Platform  that allows you to route, enrich, reduce (and more) the data that you send through it. Check  cribl.io , their Docs, University and Community for more details.  Here's the first Post, about Slack Notifications. What Exactly For some of my Use Cases / Data sources I was looking for a free longterm storage solution . Not for big data volumes - basically for summary statistics . In this case the daily Energy Consumption and Production (Photovoltaic) in/at my house.  I don't have Splunk (or similar) 24/7 running in the Cloud or OnPrem. For midterm Analysis and Visualization I use Humio / Crowdstrike Falcon Logscale, but it only has a retention of 7 days. Than I thought about Google Sheets . It was one of my first Cloud services and I still use it for some of my private ...

Cribl: Send Slack Notifications

What This is the first of a series of Posts where I want to show some Private and/or   "Smart Home" use cases that involve Cribl. Cribl (Stream) is a Log/Data Streaming Platform that allows you to route, enrich, reduce (and more) the data that you send through it. Check cribl.io , their Docs, Courses and Community for more details.  I got to know Cribl during my day-to-day job as Big Data Engineer and started using it also for some private stuff.  Because of its flexibility (countless sources and destinations and even more ways to interact with the data in between) Because they have a free SaaS tier where you have an account on their Cloud Platform and you can send up to 1TB per day to your instance. It also includes access to Cribl Edge and Cribl Search; 2 different, but related Cribl Products.  Yes, free. Not because Cribl pays me for this posts. They don't (yet).  Update: Here's the second Cribl related post, about sending Data to Google Sheets. Wh...