Obirdability: Building an Observability System for Bird Songs
summary
A working pipeline captures bird sound with a USB mic + Raspberry Pi, runs BirdNET locally, sends detection logs via Grafana Agent into Loki → Grafana and Mimir, and combines Open-Meteo, WAQI, Wikipedia and Google Sheets for context. BirdNET recognizes up to 6,000 species; this setup records nine distinct species in a day and 18 occurrences of Eurasian blue tit. Bonfire smoke correlates with sharp drops in songs, a placed bird feeder increases magpie visits, and alerts/SLOs fire for Blackbird mornings and unexpected sirens.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introductions
- 2:02About BirdNET
- 4:16Obirdability infrastructure
- 5:06BirdNET data - from Raspberry Pi to Loki
- 6:41Obirdability dashboard
- 7:34What can we learn about birds and their songs with Grafana?
- 13:00Observations, investigations and learnings
- 15:49Next steps: Alerts, SLOs,
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