Creating a measurement

In Factry Historian, navigate to Measurements. On the overview, click + Create Measurement.

In the form on the right, complete the fields in the Basis form fieldset:

Specific settings will need to be completed depending on the type of the collector you select. Read more about Collectors, protocols and data formats.

The engineering specifications can be used to give more meaning the values and set limits on them. Furthermore, the Factry Historian Datasource plugin will automatically fetch these settings for labeling of axes, scaling, and configuring thresholds.

The fields are:

Tags will be stored for every data point written to the time series database. In most cases, we recommended using Labels instead.

Metadata can be used to store additional information about the measurement, this information is not stored in the time series database.

Labels can be used to group measurements together and can be used to selective forward measurements using sinks and forwarders. A measurement can have multiple labels.

If External Validation is enabled, Factry Historian will perform a check against (an) external endpoint(s) to verify the measurement settings. After creating a measurement, the external validation status will appear in the measurement detail view.

Read more about configuring external validation.