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Monitoring energy usage with smart plugs, Prometheus and Grafana
My obsession with measuring the power consumption of my devices reached a whole new level.
I’ve used a simple digital energy meter before to get instantaneous readings, but that was not ideal for monitoring how an electrical appliance consumes power over a longer time period. My initial goal with these plugs was to visually monitor the power consumption of a few devices, such as my home server, router, workstation setup and the electric water heater. I’ve added a panel to my usual Prometheus node exporter Grafana view that shows the server setup power consumption alongside other metrics.
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