The Things Stack Gateway Monitoring
Background In previous posts we showed how the status of TheThingsNetwork gatways can be monitored. With the switch of the underlying infrastructure to TheThingsStack this becomes even easier, because the API allows direct access to the relevant statistics of the gateways. It is now also possible to authenticate with a (personal) API key, such that the login procedure becomes also easier to handle. API Key The first step is to create an API key with the appropriate permissions. This can be done in the console of TheThingsNetwork, by clicking on your username in the upper right corner and selecting the option Personal API Keys. You have to create a token with at least the permissions view gateway status and list gateways the user is a collaborator of. ...