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@unpublished{ploetzeneder:pcapac2022-tho12,
author = {B. Plötzeneder and T. Mazanec},
title = {{Grafana and the "archiver cache" - from Machine Status to Facility-Wide Live Data Access}},
% booktitle = {Proc. PCaPAC'22},
booktitle = {Proc. Int. Workshop Emerging Technol. Sci. Facil. Controls (PCaPAC'22)},
language = {english},
intype = {presented at the},
series = {International Workshop on Emerging Technologies and Scientific Facilities Controls},
number = {13},
venue = {Dolní Brežany, Czech Republic},
publisher = {JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland},
month = {02},
year = {2023},
note = {presented at PCaPAC'22 in Dolní Brežany, Czech Republic, unpublished},
abstract = {{The Control & DAQ systems of ELI Beamlines store data inside a Cassandra cluster, and traditionally provide access and visualization via standard CS GUIs and archiver tools. In 2020, motivated by the increasing operational demands of a maturing facility, we started to develop a concept which was initially only intended as a machine-status website to expose some of this data live. Responding to wildly diverging stakeholder feedback, this evolved into a new layer for rapid data access (’archiver cache’), based on InfluxDB, with Grafana as a frontend. Fully operational since 2021, this stack has become a powerful and heavily used tool for operations, and is continuously extended to include auxiliary data sources beyond CS (building management, IT monitoring, cleanroom…). In 2022, over 25000 metrics are available live and updated every 3-5 seconds, with a latency of less than 5 seconds. This contribution describes the background, architectural drivers, system design and implementation, lessons learned, and considerations for the future.}},
}