Use cases & Reporting
Line Monitoring
introduction in this how to guide, we will describe how to build a grafana dashboard for monitoring production lines in real time this is docid\ toq 9h3b ahk9phcl3asf a real time dashboard for floor operators and shift leads, showing input tank levels, mixer status and storage tank state across all production lines simultaneously dashboard overview line overview dashboard the line overview dashboard gives a single screen view of the entire production line — from input tanks through the mixer to storage tanks it introduces panel repetition by variable , where one panel definition automatically renders once per production line it also covers the filter fields by name and rename by regex transformation pattern, which is essential whenever a query returns data for multiple assets at once and each repeated panel copy needs to isolate its own slice of that data prerequisites make sure you have the following prepared an instance of factry historian if you do not have an instance of factry historian at your disposal, you can run it locally using our data from faketory loaded as measurements consult the or the pages for more information a configured faketory and associated installed and configured we recommend loading all data for the faketory in a separate organization in factry historian and configuring the datasource plugin against this organization
