My Grafana Labs colleague RichiH recently talked about why IoT and time series databases work so well together. It just so happens that we have a highly scalable time series database on hand. Let’s talk about that. My name is Goutham, and I am a maintainer for Cortex. I have been working on it for nearly three years out of the four-and-a-half years the project has existed. Cortex is built to serve as a scalable, long-term store for Prometheus.

Before we start, please take a moment to appreciate what day it is. IoT, or Internet of Things, has been a buzzword for longer than usual. Buzzwords usually have two common properties, and then their paths fork. I like thinking about buzzwords and about the useful aspects of what they mean. The most recent public example focuses on another buzzword currently in its hype phase: observability.

In this post, I will show you, how to monitor your IoT device in just 2 simple steps.

Connected devices will obviously have a firm hold of various industries in the present. Since the pandemic Covid 19, has affected every aspect of our life, the evolution of innovations in IoT has been impacted a lot in the daily life of people amid the crisis. The connection between the world is being made easily possible with increased use cases with the IoT devices, which connects appliances and initiates the exchange of information.