Factry Historian Datasource

Grafana datasource for Factry Historian.

Introduction

Empower anyone to analyze industrial process and event data with Grafana. The Grafana Data Source for Factry Historian makes it easy for users to browse assets, trend time-series and event data such as batches or shifts – with zero technical skills required.

Typical use cases

• Browsing your asset structure (e.g. ISA88/ISA95 equipment model)
• Trending time-series data, while auto-configuring units of measurement
• Overlaying of events (e.g. golden batch analysis)
• Ad-hoc overlaying of time-series data on top of events

Features

• Query historical data using the asset tree defined in Factry Historian
• Query historical data using measurements from Factry Historian
• Autoload Units of Measurement, Y-axis scaling and HI/LO boundaries
• Query Events from Factry Historian (e.g. batches, CIP cycles)
• Annotate trends with Event data from Factry Historian
• Use assets, measurements and events from Factry Historian as variables to build dynamic dashboards

Installation

A full step-by-step guide can be found in the 'Installing Factry Historian Datasource' Tutorial.

Install using the grafana-cli or by cloning the repository directly into the Grafana plugins directory.

grafana-cli plugins install factry-historian-datasource

Configuration

Create a new instance of the data source from the Grafana Data Sources administration page. And configure the necessary settings.

• URL: The URL of the Factry Historian API.
• Token: The API token to authenticate with the Factry Historian API.
• Organization: The UUID of the organization to query data from.
• Default tab: The default tab to show when opening the query editor.

Documentation

Full documentation can be found at the Factry documentation site: https://docs.factry.cloud/docs/grafana-datasource