<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">I\u2019d second Grafana - I don\u2019t know if Grafana can ingest straight text but you can almost certainly get the data into a system that Grafana is able to talk to and you can do a lot of complex live visualizations of that data from Grafana. It\u2019s designed for creating dashboards of your data.<div><br></div><div>Spencer<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Apr 27, 2026, at 8:50\u202fPM, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb@2bits.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Maybe that was me, when I was explaining how to capture data from Home Assistant to InfluxDB and visualizing it in Grafana?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">That applies if the data is telemetry, in the sense that it is mostly numeric, sent at regular intervals, and reflect the state of various entities. Examples are CPU temperature, utilization and frequency, disk space, outdoor and indoor temperature, humidity, wind speed, ...etc.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If so, then the presentation is linked on KWLUG's web site.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But you only said text, which is quite ambiguous, so perhaps none of the above applies.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">--<br>Khalid Baheyeldin<br>Composed on a mobile device. <br>Please excuse any typos and/or brevity. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 27, 2026, 20:06 William Park via kwlug-disc <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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I think one of KWLUG presenters (when we had physical meetings) used
something like this at the meeting. I was more impressed with this
tool, than the topic of his talk.<br>
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Thanks for "data visualization" search term. More searching...<br></div>
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