SQL Superpowers and Smart Plant Monitoring with Grafana

Agenda:

From SQL Expressions to Plant Monitoring in Grafana: join us to discover new Grafana features and exceptional use-cases.

18:00 Introductions & pizza

18:30 STEM in the garden: how to monitor plants with IoT sensors and Grafana Cloud by Marie Cruz, Senior Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs
Gardening meets Grafana in this beginner-friendly talk.

Marie will walk you through building a complete IoT monitoring pipeline using a soil moisture sensor, Arduino-compatible hardware, and Grafana Cloud.

• Setting up the tech: Arduino, Wi-Fi modules, and soil sensors
• Pushing metrics to the cloud with Prometheus and Grafana
• Designing the dashboard

19:15 Grafana’s New Superpower: Mastering SQL Expressions by Sam Jewell, Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs

Join Sam to discover a powerful new feature in Grafana, unlocking more power from your data and revolutionising your experience: SQL Expressions.
What we’ll cover:

• Performing last-mile transformations: show, hide, rename, filter, and order columns
• Using SQL features like subqueries and CTEs for in-memory data manipulation
• Joining data from unlimited data source queries