How Meshtastic Metrics Exporter Turned Eight Prometheus Queries Into One with Tiger Data
A Python exporter reads Meshtastic mesh telemetry from MQTT and writes it directly into a TimescaleDB‑enabled PostgreSQL instance, replacing a Prometheus setup that hit ~0.5 M series for 10 k nodes. The single database lets Grafana dashboards join node metadata with eight time‑series tables in one query, eliminates scrape‑budget limits, and uses native retention/compression (14‑day compression, 3…


