3 posts authored by “Ken Bannister”

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OpenTelemetry for IoT Metrics

Observability is vital for remotely operated embedded devices, and we at balena always are on the lookout for better solutions. OpenTelemetry (OTel) is a CNCF project to provide vendor neutral reporting for metrics, logs, and traces. This post describes our encouraging exploration of OTel with Prometheus metrics and Grafana Cloud, like the overview below of a balena device. We also created a…

August 13, 2023 / 4 min

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Replace Google IoT Core with ClearBlade

Recently we posted an article to the balena blog on Google's retirement of its IoT Core product, which is scheduled for August 2023. For a user of IoT Core, one way to adapt is to keep using Google Cloud, but replace only the IoT Core functionality. ClearBlade provides such a replacement, including a migration tool. This article describes how we used ClearBlade IoT Core to replace Google IoT Core…

April 06, 2023 / 5 min

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Introducing the Cloud Relay Block: send data to your favorite cloud provider

Often customers want to send data from their balena device to a cloud IoT provider like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. These providers allow you to register your device to their IoT service and provide public key credentials so you can send the data securely. Introducing the Cloud Relay balena Block Our balenaCloud service already provides backend management for the device, so we created some tools…

June 22, 2022 / 6 min