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 TO…

Roger Light is a Co-founder and Senior Developer at Cedalo, as well as the Lead Developer of Eclipse 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? Deep…

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…

Steve Guthman 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 the…

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 …

In this episode, Jeremy Cioara and Erik Pope of Veeya join me to discuss how monitoring helps them provide technology services to chartered schools. Modern schools are highly connected and digitized. Students are "walking devices" (as Jeremy puts it) and the school itself has dozens of connected devices. This brings with it the need to manage the i…

Greg Sheridan and Glen Anderson have implemented a solar power system a their home lab in Sydney, Australia. Their system includes 400W solar panels with microinverters (which essentially lets them monitor each panel separately) and a Tesla Powerwall. But what metrics are they monitoring? Greig and Glen differentiate between health status metrics, …

Typical healthcare IT infrastructure has classic IT elements - routers, switches, firewalls, printers, and so on - as well as healthcare devices and systems. And if the infrastructure is large, there is even more complexity: not only are you dealing with disparate systems and devices, but also a lot of them. And that complexity is even more compoun…

Daren Fulwell of IP Fabric joins Simon Bell and Shaun Behrens of Paessler to talk about network automation. They cover what the perception of network automation is for IT administrators, their own perception of it, and how to approach it. Some tips that came out of the discussion for dealing with network automation: Start with individual tasks Focu…

To understand how wastewater treatment plants are monitored, it first helps to understand the processes behind how water is treated. David Montoya, our monitoring expert in this episode, takes us through the different phases that water goes through in a treatment plant, which include filtering, clarifying (such as with ozone or bacteria), and disin…

Greg Campion is the monitoring expert who joins Shaun to discuss observability in this episode. According to Greg, observability is observing a system in the sense that you take in as much of it as you can, without necessarily looking at something specific. For him, it's about the ability to observe things from a much wider perspective. Here's what…

Shaun drops in to briefly introduce The Monitoring Experts podcast by Paessler. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes in your feed every second Wednesday. In each episode, your host Shaun will be joined by a monitoring expert who will discuss different aspects of monitoring IT, OT and IIoT. Just as an example: the first episode wil…

The Monitoring Experts is a podcast all about monitoring IT, IoT, OT...and everything in between. In each episode, Shaun, your host, is joined by an expert in the monitoring field to discuss best practices, industry trends, monitoring deep dives, and more. Subscribe now and let's get monitoring! Let us know your monitoring use cases, ask us a monit…