# Display sensor data history

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/display-sensor-data-history/8752>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [8 March 2019 19:18 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/display-sensor-data-history/8752 "2019-03-08T19:18:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![nassima100](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e5b9ba/32.png) [@nassima100](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/nassima100)\
**Post date:** [8 March 2019 19:18 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/display-sensor-data-history/8752/1 "2019-03-08T19:18:16Z")

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Hello, for those who are fimiliar with node red please help me, I'm starting to use node red & MQTT with an esp8266 and dht22, I followed this tutorial and it worked fine : [https://randomnerdtutorials.com/esp8266-and-node-red-with-mqtt/](https://randomnerdtutorials.com/esp8266-and-node-red-with-mqtt/)  
now my goal is to display something like this on my dashboard for historisation sake

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/2X/7/728dcc884d4088447ff855b82f1afb14d67580dc.jpeg)  
and I need the data to be stored somewhere in a database or cloud  
Could you please guide me through this what should I use, and how ?  
Thanks in advance

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**Author:** ![JayDickson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/jaydickson/32/90592_2.png) [@JayDickson](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/JayDickson)\
**Post date:** [8 March 2019 19:23 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/display-sensor-data-history/8752/2 "2019-03-08T19:23:50Z")

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I would highly recommend looking into influxDB and grafana for this type of thing.

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**Author:** ![ghayne](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/ghayne/32/39_2.png) [@ghayne](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ghayne)\
**Post date:** [8 March 2019 19:26 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/display-sensor-data-history/8752/3 "2019-03-08T19:26:21Z")

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+1 for @JayDickson's suggestion.

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**Author:** ![nassima100](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e5b9ba/32.png) [@nassima100](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/nassima100)\
**Post date:** [8 March 2019 19:28 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/display-sensor-data-history/8752/4 "2019-03-08T19:28:50Z")

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Thanks, I'll look for it

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**Author:** ![nassima100](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e5b9ba/32.png) [@nassima100](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/nassima100)\
**Post date:** [20 March 2019 11:54 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/display-sensor-data-history/8752/5 "2019-03-20T11:54:31Z")

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@JayDickson, @ghayne I'm using a win7 32 bits so I couldn't install InfluxDB, is there another suitable option !

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**Author:** ![JayDickson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/jaydickson/32/90592_2.png) [@JayDickson](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/JayDickson)\
**Post date:** [20 March 2019 12:40 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/display-sensor-data-history/8752/6 "2019-03-20T12:40:42Z")

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Is the hardware itself 32 bit, or just the OS? If the hardware is x86-64, I'd recommend switching to Ubuntu server for multiple reasons.

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**Author:** ![nassima100](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e5b9ba/32.png) [@nassima100](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/nassima100)\
**Post date:** [20 March 2019 12:59 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/display-sensor-data-history/8752/7 "2019-03-20T12:59:54Z")

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I would like to but I'm running out of time, I already did a lot of work on win32 and I want to move the work on Rpi when I'm done, so I want somethin that works on both