Metrics Addon Not Providing Items Metrics

[utdrmac (Jack)]

@rlkoshak

Then use a database supported by Graphana (or what ever you are wanting to chart), e.g. InfluxDB

I did, but it never worked properly with openHab (see next)

@rlkoshak

set up the corresponding persistence add-on in openHAB. Configure it to save the states of the Items based on what ever strategy you choose.

I did. I created an “every minute”, “every 5 minute”, and “every change” strategies. This never seemed to do anything.

Persistence was stored in Influx, but I could never get historical item data/states into influx.

@rlkoshak

support charting the states of Items over time

True, but it’s only single graphs per item. No way to create a graph for all temp monitors, or all door sensors, etc. Which is why I set up influx, and grafana, but could never get item data into influx.

I was hoping this new Metrics plugin would fix these issues, but seems to have the same restrictions.

This plugin looks promising to do what I need, and I hope the devs are considering the open pull-request to merge it (though development looks stalled):

Victoria metrics persistence service

Hello everyone, I’m happy to announce that I’m working on a VictoriaMetrics persistence binding for openHAB! VictoriaMetrics is an efficient and highly performant time-series database, often regarded as a superior alternative to InfluxDB due to its performance and simplicity. While VictoriaMetrics supports the same InfluxDB V1 write API (/write endpoint), it currently lacks direct compatibility with openHAB for querying data, meaning graphs and historical data won’t be readily available in ope…