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Archiverappliance-datasource is a Grafana plugin that connects Grafana to the EPICS Archiver Appliance with the purpose of allowing users to create visualization dashboards and alerts. We’ve added a back-end component to this plugin to allow users to create realtime, continuously monitoring alerts based upon EPICS process variables. Our work compliments the initial front-end work completed at KEK that allows users to build and save visualizations from archiver data. The notification system’s key feature is that it does not require engineering expertise to configure alerts yet still offers a high degree of customizability. Once the process variables are being archived, users are able to use Grafana’s web interface to identify their process variables, view a PV’s history, and carefully craft alerts tailored to their specific needs. These alerts can be coupled with Grafana’s support for a variety of messaging systems such as Email, Slack, Kafka, and raw HTTP POST requests to distribute these notifications in the manner of the users choice.
