Obirdability: Building an Observability System for Bird Songs 🐦
summary
A working pipeline records audio on a microphone + Raspberry Pi, runs BirdNET on Raspberry Pi to output species and confidence, and ships logs via Grafana Agent to Loki with metrics scraped to Prometheus; Grafana dashboards join Loki, Infinity (Wikipedia, Open-Meteo, Google Sheets) and show images/audio, annotations and alerts. Live result: roughly 30k sounds, 610 >75% confidence, 35 species yesterday; alerts and SLOs fire and the dashboards and integrations demonstrably work.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Bird observability project intro
- 2:58Collecting bird song data
- 8:35Storing detections in Loki
- 10:23Visualizing bird data
- 13:59Enriching bird data
- 16:30Demo: Multi-source dashboard
- 24:46Bird behavior experiments
- 27:37Actionable insights with alerts
- 31:05Demo: Bird song alerts
- 32:52AI dashboard adjustments
- 34:58Public bird monitoring dashboards
- 35:19Q&A on Grafana
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