Monitoring a fleet of IoT farms with Grafana Cloud

If you had a fleet of all-in-one indoor farming solutions deployed across the world, how would you tackle the challenge of monitoring these distributed agricultural systems?

In this session, Amandeep Ratte, Head of Data Science at a multinational AgTech company, will answer that question and more as he walks through how his team leveraged Grafana Cloud to build a way to track their international fleet of IoT farms with dashboards that offer fleet-wide aggregate views, detailed device views, and a robust health check architecture. Amandeep will show how the company’s entire Grafana Cloud stack is deployable via Terraform; how they use AWS Lambda functions, Lambda layers, and AWS Timestream to perform scheduled health checks that are testable; and how they use JSON API community plugins to create custom endpoints to expose relevant business logic and meta-data to organize their views.

You’ll learn about Terraform in the context of Grafana Cloud, horticultural diagnosis, how to leverage Grafana plugins to access internal APIs for meta-data, and a framework to iteratively convert common visual /graphical diagnosis into automated, testable health checks. The talk will also touch on larger themes related to monitoring B2B IoT systems and how remote diagnosis can solve problems before customers are impacted.

Amandeep Ratte
Head of Data Science at a multinational AgTech company
Amandeep Ratte
Head of Data Science at a multinational AgTech company
Amandeep Ratte is the Head of Data Science at an AgTech company focused on vertical farming. He is passionate about agriculture, science policy communication, and civic-tech. Outside of work, Amandeep volunteers with Code for America and science-policy non-profits. When not there, you can find him reading about social and political and social effects of new technologies.