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• EPICS Archiver data source now allows for alerting, thanks to an ongoing fruitful collaboration with KEK, the Japanese High Energy Accelerator Research Organization.
  • Slack channels have been made for hutches and groups to opt-in to alerts:
    #grafana-alerts-ecs
    #grafana-alerts-cxi
    #grafana-alerts-kfe
    #grafana-alerts-mec
    #grafana-alerts-mfx
    #grafana-alerts-rix
    #grafana-alerts-xcs
    #grafana-alerts-tmo
    #grafana-alerts-xpp
    #grafana-alerts-xrt
    #grafana-alerts-lfe
  • ECS invites users to try this new functionality and report back their results.
  • Instructions to set up alerts can be found here: How to set up EPICS notifications using Grafana.
• A new PLC logging daemon ("ads-log-daemon") was installed to automatically stream logs from any PLC configured on the network.
  • Due to limitations of Beckhoff hardware, the previous configuration did not catch all messages coming from PLCs.
  • This new daemon hooks into the same system that TwinCAT XAE does, and therefore should be able to catch all messages from PLCs - even without a valid TF6310 TCP/IP license installed.
• A beta-level data source was added to log full IOC output in Grafana.
  • The current (stable) data source only accepts EPICS errLog messages, which not all IOC authors may be using.
  • Due to the extreme amount of log messages generated (>100 million per week), some pre-filtering is required, which will take time to perfect.
• EPICS Archiver Appliance statistics are now being tracked and monitored.

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We will get back to TMO DREAM starting April.  Near-term goal is to complete final design of 80% of the DREAM control systems. Long-term goal is to get ready for installation by April 2022.

EPICS alerting with Grafana

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Grafana

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