en en The Monitoring Experts A podcast by Paessler all about monitoring IT, IoT, OT...and everything in between. Get monitoring deep dives, best practices, industry trends, and more from experts in the monitoring field. Let's get monitoring!  https://themonitoringexperts.com Sat, 18 Apr 2026 18:24:28 +0200 Paessler AG yes https://lcdn.letscast.fm/media/podcast/6c41284c/artwork-3000x3000.jpg?t=1669212868 The Monitoring Experts https://themonitoringexperts.com Paessler AG LetsCast.fm (https://letscast.fm) The podcast about all things monitoring Paessler AG episodic IT monitoring, OT monitoring, infrastructure monitoring, IT administration, sysadmins, IoT monitoring, network monitoring Paessler AG shaun.behrens@paessler.com no no no Paessler AG A podcast by Paessler all about monitoring IT, IoT, OT...and everything in between. Get monitoring deep dives, best practices, industry trends, and more from experts in the monitoring field. Let's get monitoring!  no no 0a34577967f24bb6b8d5e9cce20f0fea Working in IT 20 years ago: two IT veterans reminisce 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. 
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]]> Thu, 28 Dec 2023 16:00:00 +0100 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. 
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]]> https://themonitoringexperts.com Working in IT 20 years ago: two IT veterans reminisce 00:25:12 Paessler AG 11 full 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. 
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]]> no no no no c3d5232ea0ca4efb9ca78ea76479ac36 The story of Eclipse Mosquitto MQTT broker, and monitoring MQTT The Eclipse Mosquitto MQTT broker has been influential in MQTT and the Internet of Things, and its creator, Roger Light, joins as a guest to discuss how it started and grew. Plus, Shaun gives some tips and resources for monitoring MQTT. ]]> Wed, 06 Dec 2023 11:00:00 +0100 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: 
The Maker Monday YouTube series Shaun mentioned: Maker Monday playlist


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]]> https://themonitoringexperts.com The story of Eclipse Mosquitto MQTT broker, and monitoring MQTT 00:21:51 Paessler AG 10 full The Eclipse Mosquitto MQTT broker has been influential in MQTT and the Internet of Things, and its creator, Roger Light, joins as a guest to discuss how it started and grew. Plus, Shaun gives some tips and resources for monitoring MQTT. ]]> no no no no 1abc92c4984d43ab8d2a52f0bb060e4f Automating a trace heating system with monitoring data Simon uses a Davis Weather station and Sonoff power sockets to automate his trace heating system.]]> Thu, 20 Apr 2023 09:00:00 +0200 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 on the trace heating. 

Simon comes on the podcast to talk through his solution step by step. 

Note that part of Simon's solution involves working with grid-powered power sockets. Before attempting this project, please read and understand the instructions and safety guidelines on the Tasmota project pages (links in the blog posts below).

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]]> https://themonitoringexperts.com Automating a trace heating system with monitoring data Using weather data to turn trace heating on 00:17:46 Paessler AG 9 full Simon uses a Davis Weather station and Sonoff power sockets to automate his trace heating system.]]> no no no no d14c78458465468aa0c0358f168eeee9 How to use DICOM and HL7 to monitor medical infrastructure DICOM and HL7 are industry standards in healthcare IT, and you can use them to monitor modalities and the systems around them.]]> Thu, 30 Mar 2023 18:00:00 +0200 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 them. 

And Steve's advice for getting started with monitoring a medical healthcare facility: focus on quick wins first.

Steve Guthman's website: 104adt.com

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]]> https://themonitoringexperts.com How to use DICOM and HL7 to monitor medical infrastructure Getting monitoring data from modalities and healthcare systems 00:27:31 Paessler AG 8 full DICOM and HL7 are industry standards in healthcare IT, and you can use them to monitor modalities and the systems around them.]]> no no no no 240f96d74215407684807f84ec886ae8 Airport infrastructure - what happens behind the scenes Why you need a business processes approach to monitoring the many interconnected systems in an airport.]]> Thu, 09 Mar 2023 11:00:00 +0100 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 if any of these systems fail, major disruptions can ensue.

David Montoya joins us to describe the many moving parts of a typical airport, and he explains the importance of dashboards and a monitoring approach based on business processes.  

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]]> https://themonitoringexperts.com Airport infrastructure - what happens behind the scenes 00:17:06 Paessler AG 7 full Why you need a business processes approach to monitoring the many interconnected systems in an airport.]]> no no no no b0d56f674ad947fe9a0a226c377b0dfa Monitoring school infrastructure: connectivity, bandwidth and content filtering Student testing, regulatory requirements and content filtering: the unique challenges of monitoring school infrastructure.]]> Wed, 22 Feb 2023 17:00:00 +0100 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 infrastructure and bandwidth capacity. Not only is it important to have a real-time view of connectivity and bandwidth usage in the school network, but you need to understand the trends over time as well to understand how to optimize and upgrade.

Then there are regulatory requirements, like the Children's Internet Protection (CIPA) laws. An example of this is the need to ensure that content filtering is not only set up, but functioning at all times.

So how does monitoring help Veeya provide services to meet these challenges? What are the top things they need to keep an eye on? How do they monitor multiple schools? From DHCP pool monitoring through to utilizing Netflow technology to watch bandwidth, Jeremy and Erik give us a glimpse of what's involved in managing educational infrastructure.

Visit their Website: Veeya

Jeremy has also done YouTube videos about our product, Paessler PRTG: Jeremy Cioara on PRTG

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]]> https://themonitoringexperts.com Monitoring school infrastructure: connectivity, bandwidth and content filtering Meeting the unique challenges of providing technology services to schools 00:23:19 Paessler AG 6 full Student testing, regulatory requirements and content filtering: the unique challenges of monitoring school infrastructure.]]> no no no no f6727be1f9f34ea3a5f71fff7a775947 Monitoring a solar power system What metrics should you measure of a solar power system? What can you learn from the monitoring data? ]]> Wed, 08 Feb 2023 18:00:00 +0100 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, which indicate the status of the different components of the solar power system, and operational metrics, which help them optimize their power consumption on a day-to-day basis. And they also describe how their monitoring helped them make their service provider aware of a general problem.

You can find more information about how Greig and Glen monitor their solar power system at Greig's blog: Greig in Sydney

Specifically of interest are these articles:

Other notes from our discussion:

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]]> https://themonitoringexperts.com Monitoring a solar power system Monitoring the health status and operational metrics of a solar power system 00:24:53 Paessler AG 5 full What metrics should you measure of a solar power system? What can you learn from the monitoring data? ]]> no no no no 701d6c9e84344da1b19977bd9d75fd62 Monitoring healthcare infrastructure Classic IT, medical devices, COWs...monitoring a large medical facility has its own set of challenges.]]> Wed, 25 Jan 2023 12:00:00 +0100 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 compounded due to the nature of medical devices - for example, it's not easy to simply enable SNMP on medical devices.

Willem Bouwman is a Senior Technical Application Manager at Leiden University Medical Center, and he needs to monitor infrastructure that has both IT elements and healthcare devices. To do this, he is working on centralizing the monitoring approach - but this is a massive challenge. He explains the difficulties he is facing bringing everything together into one monitoring overview, the challenges with medical devices, and what his next steps are.

Our case study with the LUMC: How the LUMC can monitor all its IT systems

A deep dive video about monitoring healthcare infrastructure: Is your healthcare IT HEALTHY?


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]]> https://themonitoringexperts.com Monitoring healthcare infrastructure Medical devices, classic IT, and more: the challenges of healthcare infrastructure 00:17:59 Paessler AG 4 full Classic IT, medical devices, COWs...monitoring a large medical facility has its own set of challenges.]]> healthcare IT, monitoring, IT, IT monitoring no no no no be3db73444814b69ace490e7ca34b33f Network automation What do IT admins think of when they hear "Network automation"? What is it really? Where does one start when automating tasks? What role can monitoring tools play? ]]> Wed, 11 Jan 2023 01:00:00 +0100 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 
  • Focus on the solution and not the technology
  • Understand the data flows that you are automating
  • Automated tasks can be reused in multiple data flows 
Simon and Daren also discuss an example of automation involving an asset management tool (IP Fabric) and a monitoring tool (Paessler PRTG). Here is a link to the video of the use case:

Network automation – what does it actually mean?

You can find more details in this blog post by Daren:

Making sure your network is behaving as you intend

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]]> https://themonitoringexperts.com Network automation From task level to data flow: how to think about network automation 00:19:18 Paessler AG 3 full What do IT admins think of when they hear "Network automation"? What is it really? Where does one start when automating tasks? What role can monitoring tools play? ]]> no no no no 8d5e2680c5b148b2b86d6566d205db5e Monitoring wastewater treatment plants Wastewater treatment plants are crucial to society, and provide their own unique challenges. We take a look at the processes in a typical water treatment facility and discover what needs to be monitored to ensure continuous and secure operations.]]> Wed, 28 Dec 2022 14:00:00 +0100 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 disinfecting. Then he explains the combination of operational technology (OT) and IIoT components involved, how these should be monitored (including the common protocols used), and the importance of predictive maintenance.

The challenges of wastewater treatment facilities are unique: 
  • The nature of water brings its own problems, such as corrosion or rusting of equipment. 
  • Quality control is a concern too, and this requires accurate measurements and historical data. 
  • There is a risk of cyber attacks (in fact, last year we featured an example of this on our blog - Cyberattack on water plant shows vulnerability of industrial networks
  • Energy consumption of treatment facilities is a major concern
David explains how monitoring can help manage each of these specific challenges.


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]]> https://themonitoringexperts.com Monitoring wastewater treatment plants Operational technology components, environmental metrics, ozone levels...the unique challenge of monitoring wastewater treatment plants. 00:22:45 Paessler AG 2 full Wastewater treatment plants are crucial to society, and provide their own unique challenges. We take a look at the processes in a typical water treatment facility and discover what needs to be monitored to ensure continuous and secure operations.]]> OT monitoring, wastewater treatment, monitoring critical infrastructure, infrastructure monitoring no no no no 3117ef731f6842f58a7a6feaa319a145 Observability and monitoring What is observability? And how does it relate to "traditional" monitoring? We take a look at how observability has taken us from "Neanderthals with log files" to "astronauts with instrument panels", and also how it has turned the traditional concept of monitoring upside down.]]> Wed, 14 Dec 2022 08:00:00 +0100 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 Greg discusses: 
  • The development of observability from simple logs through to the single pane of glass (with this article as our reference point)
  • The challenges of incorporating observability into existing systems
  • The difference between observability and monitoring
  • Why Greg is so fascinated by observability.
Greg also wrote a blog post in 2019 called The rise of observability that is worth a read. He also covered observability in a video about the future of infrastructure: Why we won't care about infrastructure anymore 

Things mentioned in this episode:
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]]> https://themonitoringexperts.com Observability and monitoring What observability is, how it developed, and observability vs. monitoring 00:24:31 Paessler AG 1 full What is observability? And how does it relate to "traditional" monitoring? We take a look at how observability has taken us from "Neanderthals with log files" to "astronauts with instrument panels", and also how it has turned the traditional concept of monitoring upside down.]]> observability, monitoring, infrastructure, IT no no no no fd64479097e646e4a383304090564fa2 Introducing The Monitoring Experts Podcast 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 will cover observability and its relation to monitoring, the second will look at monitoring the machines and systems of a wastewater treatment plant, and the third episode will focus on network automation, where monitoring also plays its part.

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]]> Wed, 07 Dec 2022 20:00:00 +0100 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 will cover observability and its relation to monitoring, the second will look at monitoring the machines and systems of a wastewater treatment plant, and the third episode will focus on network automation, where monitoring also plays its part.

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]]> https://themonitoringexperts.com Introducing The Monitoring Experts Podcast 00:02:58 Paessler AG 0 full 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 will cover observability and its relation to monitoring, the second will look at monitoring the machines and systems of a wastewater treatment plant, and the third episode will focus on network automation, where monitoring also plays its part.

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]]> no no no no a129959261744c93b168ed2672f36253 The Monitoring Experts Podcast Trailer 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! 
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