In this second article we'll be taking a look at the dashboard itself. Six months ago we were distinctly underwhelmed by the dashboard - it was more style than substance.

More recently we tried it and found various bugs including a lack of sort which resulted in this amusing graph:

Britain is enjoying rather nice weather at the moment. One of our consultants has a CurrentCost meter and developed a plugin for Nagios using the excellent Nagios::Plugin Perl library. This allowed him to graph home current usage like this (spot when the electric oven was turned on):