I’m thinking of making an Epicor System Status screen that we can display on screens around our shop/office. So it’s obvious if there is a bottleneck or other problem somewhere in our business pipeline. With simple green lights/numbers for everything working and red lights to indicate something is…

We use Grafana for this. As of v10 which we finally got to last Friday they have some sweet very mature JSON data sources and a new canvas feature for arbitrary object placement, like a shop floor map with status indicators sort of thing. Really your decision will come down to what kinds of data so…

I can second Grafana with API feeding it data. Grafana is nice to use and it was free!

Wow ok thanks much! And it looks perfect, very easy to customize look. Only data source should be Epicor… though now yall have me thinking.

Followup question - for those of you using Grafana, do you get data from BAQs/REST, or connect Grafana directly to Epicor database and make queries in Grafana? I see advantages either way… is there something that makes one method way better than another? Here we are discussing both, with warning a…

Depends on the situation for us, these days, but historically for Epicor we used the Direct SQL Drive and hit a read only version of the database. Not ideal but it’s where we were able to start. Since then a much better support for simple JSON has been implemented so going to calling BAQs via REST v…

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NateS (Nate Schoonover) January 23, 2024, 6:44pm 6

I used API key and restricted Access scope to just the BAQ that was needed. I think I used a generic odata as the source.

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