[zwayhowder]

At my work (A university) We setup a TIG stack to monitor IT systems and then one of our facilities management people saw it and we got chatting. We have just setup a POC to pipe metrics out of multiple proprietary building management systems into a single Grafana dashboard.

We've also updated all our tender documents for future projects to include a requirement that we can query metrics and logs through an API or direct DB access.

A recent project I worked on identified over 500 applications whose only use is to provide monitoring to a bespoke system or tool. This isn't uncommon at a university as different faculties and departments will buy "the best tool for XYZ" without ever asking IT if perhaps there is a tool that is almost as good that we already have.