{
  "id": 12612288,
  "title": "How Meshtastic Metrics Exporter Turned Eight Prometheus Queries Into One with Tiger Data",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/07/how-meshtastic-metrics-exporter-turned-eight-prometheus-queries-into",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-07T08:30:07.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "HackerNoon",
    "slug": "hackernoon",
    "url": "https://hackernoon.com/how-meshtastic-metrics-exporter-turned-eight-prometheus-queries-into-one-with-tiger-data?source=rss"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The Meshtastic Metrics Exporter, an open source monitoring tool for the Meshtastic mesh radio community, has shifted from Prometheus to a single Postgres database running TimescaleDB. This change was necessary as the network grew to 10,000 nodes, resulting in half a million metric series that overwhelmed Prometheus. Gleb Tcivie, a software engineer and Meshtastic community member, built and maintains the project. The exporter decodes mesh network traffic into TimescaleDB and provides pre-provisioned Grafana dashboards. The project began within the Meshtastic community and has since expanded to other global networks. The challenge was cardinality, as each distinct combination of labels created a new series in Prometheus. TimescaleDB, an extension on top of Postgres, solved this issue by allowing Gleb to write ordinary SQL and join node details directly against their time-series history. Three containers start the exporter with one command, making it easy for mesh operators to deploy, without needing to be database administrators.",
  "summary": "See how Meshtastic Metrics Exporter moved from Prometheus to TimescaleDB, combining node metadata and time-series telemetry in one Postgres database.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}