Grafana at Continental Scale: Monitoring the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)

The National Ecological Observatory Network, or NEON project, is a continental-scale ecological monitoring network comprising 47 terrestrial and 34 aquatic field sites across the United States. Using a suite of scientific instruments and custom automation, 23,000 unique data streams are collected from 3,500 data loggers, comprising 5 billion data points per day.

In this talk, NEON IT Service Administrator Robert Hamnett shares the suite of Grafana dashboards that monitor every NEON sensor onsite alongside its supporting IT infrastructure. Technicians use these dashboards at NEON sites while performing maintenance to determine sensor health and function, while remote staff utilize these dashboards mirrored on the cloud to monitor cross-site performance and look for systemic issues at a continental scale. NEON has interesting and unique challenges maintaining this level of infrastructure in remote, rugged areas, and improving the ability to detect these issues and infer cause remotely has the potential to completely revolutionize how technicians maintain NEON sites while saving time and money.

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction to the U.S. National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)
2:05 NEON video
5:00 Problems at NEON Sites, and where Grafana helps
7:32 NEON's Grafana metamorphosis
8:37 NEON's Grafana dashboards - sensors, infrastructure, and Pilikia

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[willhendricks]

Wow! What a cool project. Great presentation.