Grafana at Continental Scale: Monitoring the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)
summary
NEON monitors 47 terrestrial and 34 aquatic field sites, ingesting 23,000 unique data streams from 3,500 data loggers (about 5 billion points per day) and visualizes them with Grafana on-site + cloud backed by centralized logging and Loki links. Dashboards track sensors, switch ports, gas‑exchange plumbing and alerts; a single air pump failure can invalidate an entire eddy‑covariant product, and a Pilikia diagnostics dashboard correlates rain, bad packets and port failures so technicians prioritize visits.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Introduction to the U.S. National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)
- 2:05NEON video
- 5:00Problems at NEON Sites, and where Grafana helps
- 7:32NEON's Grafana metamorphosis
- 8:37NEON's Grafana dashboards - sensors, infrastructure, and Pilikia
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