Cameras & Sensors

Overview

For a Camera or Sensor, this section shows graphically the availability and health for the selected time period (day, week, month) and date.

Camera or Sensor chart

Colour coding

When viewed for today only, each section on the Details page gives an indication if it is currently alerting and thus impacting the associated heat tile colour. Find out more about colour coding.

Description

Horizontal axis: Adjusts according to the selected time period to show "hours" in day view and "days" in week and month views; redraws if the time zone is changed at the top right of the Details page. See Zoom options for methods to zoom in on the data.

Time period

Highlight displays the values for each data point in the time period:

Day

Shows multiple data points per hour (one for each polling period, usually one to five minutes)

Week

Shows 24 data points per day (every hour), Maximum for each hour is shown

Month

Shows 6 data points per day (every 4 hours), Maximum for each 4 hour period is shown

Details IoT Tooltip Month

For any time period, hover on a point to see date, timestamp and availability status. If hovering on a week or month, there may be multiple availability states in the time period.

Availability

Coloured blips, with the priority and meaning shown below, are drawn on the Availability line.

Priority
Colour
Issue

1

Red blip

Camera or Sensor reported as Down

2

Blue blip

No data, controller is not contactable

3

Green line

Camera or Sensor is up

4

Grey line

No data

Week/Month: Priority on availability states

For week or month, if more than one availability event occurs during the time span (one hour for a week, 4 hours for a month), then only one blip is shown on the Availability line using the priority shown in the table above.

All availability events for the time span are listed in the tooltip when hovering on a point.

Health

Coloured blips are drawn on the Health line. More details on health issues are available on the Meraki daskboard.

Colour
Meaning

Red blip

Issue: Alerting

Green line

OK - no issue

Grey line

No data

Zoom options

There are two methods to zoom in on charts: drag and click. Find out more about zoom options.

Background colours

Grey backgrounds indicate non-business hours and purple backgrounds indicate maintenance periods. Find out more about background colours.

Location of Controller

From the Camera or Sensor Details page, hover on the controller icon to view the location of the controller

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