The Monitoring Experts

Doing tech support in people's houses, dealing with smoky workplaces, and finding dead birds in PCs...Greg and Simon look back at their jobs 20 years ago, as well as considering some things that have changed since then.  Let us know your monitoring use cases, ask us a monitoring question, or just give us general feedback about the podcast: GET IN TOUCH [https://themonitoringexperts.com/feedback] Get in touch on Twitter: @monitoringxpert [https://twitter.com/monitoringxpert] Website: themonitoringexperts.com [https://themonitoringexperts.com/] Visit the Paessler blog [https://blog.paessler.com/] for more from the monitoring experts.

Roger Light is a Co-founder and Senior Developer at Cedalo [https://cedalo.com/], as well as the Lead Developer of Eclipse Mosquitto [https://cedalo.com/mqtt-broker-pro-mosquitto/]. He started Mosquitto as a hobby project in 2009, which gained rapid popularity and contributed to the widespread adoption of MQTT as an IoT protocol. Resources and tips for monitoring MQTT:  * Description of MQTT and more: What is MQTT? [https://www.paessler.com/it-explained/mqtt] * Deep dive into MQTT architecture for monitoring: Understanding MQTT architecture [https://blog.paessler.com/understanding-mqtt-architecture] * The history of MQTT: From Oil Pipelines to the IoT: A Brief History of MQTT [https://blog.paessler.com/a-brief-history-of-mqtt] * Video tutorials of monitoring MQTT use cases with Paessler PRTG: Our new MQTT sensors: video tutorials [https://blog.paessler.com/our-new-mqtt-sensors-video-tutorials] The Maker Monday YouTube series Shaun mentioned: Maker Monday playlist [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlzpc0FQ9agg4q1gejCJbGzNMY43F2TVc&si=rdv1cJprl4qlsU7c] Let us know your monitoring use cases, ask us a monitoring question, or just give us general feedback about the podcast: GET IN TOUCH [https://themonitoringexperts.com/feedback] Get in touch on Twitter: @monitoringxpert [https://twitter.com/monitoringxpert] Website: themonitoringexperts.com [https://themonitoringexperts.com/] Visit the Paessler blog [https://blog.paessler.com/] for more from the monitoring experts.

Simon Bell needed a way to automate turning his trace heating system on and off. He was already collecting weather data with his Davis Weather Station, and so he decided to use this as a trigger for the trace heating. His solution? When the temperature drops below a certain threshold, his monitoring tool sends a notification to a smart plug to turn on the trace heating.  Simon comes on the podcast to talk through his solution step by step.  Note that part of Simon's solution involves working with grid-powered power sockets. Before attempting this project, please read and understand the instructions and safety guidelines on the Tasmota project pages (links in the blog posts below). Here are blogs Simon has already written about this: * The Sonoff plug sockets: PRTG + Sonoff = Smart Meter [https://blog.paessler.com/prtg-sonoff-smart-meter] and part 2, MQTT strikes back [https://blog.paessler.com/prtg-and-sonoff-smart-meter-part-2-mqtt-strikes-back] * Monitoring a Davis Weather Station: How to keep track of the weather with PRTG [https://blog.paessler.com/weather-the-weather-with-prtg] * Finally, the Trace Heating solution: How to keep warm (enough) with PRTG [https://blog.paessler.com/keeping-warm-enough-with-prtg] Let us know your monitoring use cases, ask us a monitoring question, or just give us general feedback about the podcast: GET IN TOUCH [https://themonitoringexperts.com/feedback] Get in touch on Twitter: @monitoringxpert [https://twitter.com/monitoringxpert] Website: themonitoringexperts.com [https://themonitoringexperts.com/] Visit the Paessler blog [https://blog.paessler.com/] for more from the monitoring experts.  Let us know your monitoring use cases, ask us a monitoring question, or just give us general feedback about the podcast: GET IN TOUCH [https://themonitoringexperts.com/feedback] Get in touch on Twitter: @monitoringxpert [https://twitter.com/monitoringxpert] Website: themonitoringexperts.com [https://themonitoringexperts.com/] Visit the Paessler blog [https://blog.paessler.com/] for more from the monitoring experts.

Steve Guthman [https://104adt.com/] has been working in medical IT for decades. He joins us to discuss recent trends in healthcare IT (such as 3D imaging and AI), and then he explains what DICOM and HL7 are. These two medical industry standards can be leveraged to monitor healthcare infrastructure, specifically the modalities (imaging devices) and the systems around them.  And Steve's advice for getting started with monitoring a medical healthcare facility: focus on quick wins first. Steve Guthman's website: 104adt.com [https://104adt.com/] Read more about monitoring healthcare IT on our blog:  * From the Doctor to the Radiology Department and Back: Monitoring Your Healthcare Workflows [https://blog.paessler.com/monitoring-your-healthcare-it-workflows] * Monitoring the modalities [https://blog.paessler.com/healthcare-it-monitoring-the-modalities] * Monitoring the integration engine [https://blog.paessler.com/healthcare-it-monitoring-the-integration-engine] * 4 Ways to monitor a PACS [https://blog.paessler.com/healthcare-it-4-ways-to-monitor-a-pacs] Let us know your monitoring use cases, ask us a monitoring question, or just give us general feedback about the podcast: GET IN TOUCH [https://themonitoringexperts.com/feedback] Get in touch on Twitter: @monitoringxpert [https://twitter.com/monitoringxpert] Website: themonitoringexperts.com [https://themonitoringexperts.com/] Visit the Paessler blog [https://blog.paessler.com/] for more from the monitoring experts.  Let us know your monitoring use cases, ask us a monitoring question, or just give us general feedback about the podcast: GET IN TOUCH [https://themonitoringexperts.com/feedback] Get in touch on Twitter: @monitoringxpert [https://twitter.com/monitoringxpert] Website: themonitoringexperts.com [https://themonitoringexperts.com/] Visit the Paessler blog [https://blog.paessler.com/] for more from the monitoring experts.

Chances are, when you are in an airport, you don't give much thought to what's going on behind the scenes. But there are a lot of systems and interfaces involved in getting you from your arrival at the airport to boarding your flight. There is passenger check-in, baggage drop-off, flight info displays, physical security devices, and much more. And if any of these systems fail, major disruptions can ensue. David Montoya [https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-montoya-42102117/] joins us to describe the many moving parts of a typical airport, and he explains the importance of dashboards and a monitoring approach based on business processes.   Do you have a monitoring question for us, or just general feedback about the podcast? Let us know: Give us feedback [https://themonitoringexperts.com/feedback] Get in touch on Twitter: @monitoringxpert [https://twitter.com/monitoringxpert] Website: themonitoringexperts.com [https://themonitoringexperts.com/] Visit the Paessler blog [https://blog.paessler.com/] for more from the monitoring experts.  Let us know your monitoring use cases, ask us a monitoring question, or just give us general feedback about the podcast: GET IN TOUCH [https://themonitoringexperts.com/feedback] Get in touch on Twitter: @monitoringxpert [https://twitter.com/monitoringxpert] Website: themonitoringexperts.com [https://themonitoringexperts.com/] Visit the Paessler blog [https://blog.paessler.com/] for more from the monitoring experts.