Can you debug your baby's unreliable nocturnal sleeping cycle with Zabbix? Of course you can! Or, as babies can be very random, maybe "possibly". Additionally, can you monitor when your baby goes to her night sleep with Zabbix? Of course you can! By day, I am a lead site reliability engineer in a global cybersecurity company. By night, I monitor my home with Zabbix & Grafana and do some weird experiments with them.
Not really any new functionality in this post, but utilising the data my Zabbix is collecting.
Lately our about six months old baby has not been very stable in her nightly sleep, waking up at least every hour or so.
Could there be a reason for that, other than baby being a baby? Let's see what our bedroom temperature graphs says.
What, there's a significant dip in the temperature during the past 30 days and even more so during the last week when our baby's been a bad sleeper?! OK, maybe this explains it.
Let's take a closer look to last two days so we can see more exact times.
And how come this would measure baby sleeping time? Well... we have a Philips Hue light strip in our bedroom, which I turn on to a dim night light mode each time I go and try to put the baby to her night sleep.
So, that does give me a good guesstimate when the baby went to sleep -- or at least tried to do so. This can be very useful or at least interesting data in the future, and of course if someone asks from me "At which time your baby goes to sleep?", I can pull this fantastic stunt where I reply back "Wait a second, I'll check from my analytics... oh, on average she goes to bed around 7.05pm".
However, my method does not measure when she woke up to the point that she's being carried out from our bedroom, as the light strip will turn off around the sunrise automatically (adjusted by Cozify).
