Monitor Raspberry Pi

Use the Raspberry Pi Monitoring template to monitor your Raspberry Pi 4 or 400 Linux system.

The Raspberry Pi template includes the following:

• one bucket: rasp-pi (7d retention)
• labels: raspberry-pi + Telegraf plugin labels
  • Diskio input plugin
  • Mem input plugin
  • Net input plugin
  • Processes input plugin
  • Swap input plugin
  • System input plugin
• one Telegraf configuration
• one dashboard: Raspberry Pi System
• two variables: bucket and linux_host

Apply the template

1. Use the influx CLI to run the following command:

   influx apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/influxdata/community-templates/master/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-system.yml
   

   For more information, see influx apply.

2. Install Telegraf on your Raspberry Pi and ensure your Raspberry Pi has network access to the InfluxDB Cloud API.

3. Add the following environment variables to your Telegraf environment:

   • INFLUX_HOST: Your InfluxDB Cloud region URL
   • INFLUX_TOKEN: Your InfluxDB Cloud API token
   • INFLUX_ORG: Your InfluxDB Cloud organization name.

   export INFLUX_HOST=http://localhost:8086
   export INFLUX_TOKEN=mY5uP3rS3cr3T70keN
   export INFLUX_ORG=example-org
   

4. Start Telegraf.

View the incoming data

1. In the InfluxDB user interface (UI), select Boards (Dashboards).

   Dashboards

2. Click the Raspberry Pi System link to open your dashboard, then select rasp-pi as your bucket and select your linux_host.