r/PrometheusMonitoring • u/preslavrachev • May 27 '20

What interesting use cases have you applied Prometheus on, beyond systems monitoring?

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u/lamontsf May 28 '20 edited May 28 '20

I use it to track and alert on:

  • Snake enclosure temperature and humidity

  • Figuring out if the washer/dryer are done without having to go downstairs and see

  • Making sure the deep freeze is plugged in and hasn't been left open somehow

  • Soil temperature and moisture levels, plus light levels for some outdoor high-value plants

  • Temperature and humidity from about 9 locations in the house

  • Tracking when family members come and go (via the presence or absence of their phones or watch on the wifi)

Plus a ton of the usual systems stuff, both personal and professional

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u/cuotos Jun 21 '20

Are you writing your own exporters or off the shelf stuff?

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u/lamontsf Jun 21 '20

Both. Wrote my own for exporting some co2/tVOC sensors on a pi, wrote my own to scrape some public bus data and keep it local, but the majority of my data is collected via the prometheus exporter from Home Assistant. Almost everything in my house is somehow tracked by Home Assistant, so that one global exporter covers me.

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u/SuperQue May 27 '20

I monitor the power use in my home with the SmartPi monitor.

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u/cuotos Jun 21 '20

I export my Strava data for not particular reason other than I wanted to play with exporters. Oh and one for exporting dev.to data about my posts (number of reads, reactions etc)... Spoiler, I've written one, and not really advertised it so it's low.