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Re:Monitoring Raspberry Pi Devices Using Telegraf, InfluxDB ... by liketochill on Thursday August 26, 2021 @10:26PM (#28323668)
Wonderware historian, inductive automation ignition, and osi pi all can buffer data at a collection or edge node that it collects from a Plc and then forward it on to the central database historian when connectivity is present. Grafana might have a better web ui but they all offer some client for plotting.

I am curious in what regard nothing comes close to grafana? I am Currently paying a lot for citect and wonderware support across a couple dozen facilities.

Re:Monitoring Raspberry Pi Devices Using Telegraf, InfluxDB ... by camtarn on Friday August 27, 2021 @04:23AM (#28325509)
We're a bit of a weird case in that we log data at 20Hz and 100Hz for prototypes, so we need custom queries and/or aggregation to reduce that down for display. We had a good chat with Inductive earlier this year, but even they said that might be a bit much for them. Other than that, though, Ignition is literally everything we want in a single product.
Re:Monitoring Raspberry Pi Devices Using Telegraf, InfluxDB ... by liketochill on Friday August 27, 2021 @02:24PM (#28331296)
You are logging data in to grafana at 100 Hz from a Plc? That’s pretty quick for a plc, I’d definitely have either a tiny program or a fast periodic task to be generating new samples every 10 ms, although I’m sure there are faster PLCs out there than m340
Re:Monitoring Raspberry Pi Devices Using Telegraf, InfluxDB ... by camtarn on Friday August 27, 2021 @03:54PM (#28332298)
Hehe, yeah. We run B&R PLCs which are fairly beefy Atom processors under the hood.
Re:Monitoring Raspberry Pi Devices Using Telegraf, InfluxDB ... by mhall119 on Friday August 27, 2021 @12:04PM (#28329503)
Telegraf can do this too, in a more limited capacity. It keeps an in-memory buffer of collected data points so if a write to an output fails it'll try again on the next interval without losing the data it has already collected.