Monitor your home's temperature and humidity with Raspberry Pis and Prometheus | Opensource.com

Data is beautiful. As a #CitizenScientist, I enjoy gathering data and trying to make sense of the world around me. At work, we use Prometheus to gather metric data from our clusters, and at home, I use Prometheus to gather data from my hobbies. This article explores how to take an application—a Python script that gathers temperature and humidity data from a sensor—and instrument it to provide data in a model that Prometheus can gather. I'll also create a systemd service to start and manage the application.

More on Raspberry Pi What is Raspberry Pi? eBook: Guide to Raspberry Pi Getting started with Raspberry Pi cheat sheet eBook: Running Kubernetes on your Raspberry Pi Whitepaper: Data-intensive intelligent applications in a hybrid cloud blueprint Understanding edge computing Our latest on Raspberry Pi Prometheus is an open source monitoring and alerting system that gathers metrics and provides a powerful query language for exploring data. I've written about setting up Prometheus locally at home. Prometheus is frequently used to gather data from container orchestration clusters such as Kubernetes and OpenShift.

In my job as a site reliability engineer running OpenShift Dedicated clusters for Red Hat, Prometheus is the core of a robust monitoring and alerting system for all of our clusters, operators, and applications. It is used at huge scale by large enterprise organizations, but it is equally at home, well, at home, collecting data for hobbyist projects.

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