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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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