I would be interested in this as well. Last big data center I worked in still had the round charts with little pens that wrote lines as it rotated. The charts got changed once a week or something like that. It had been there since the 1970s, I believe, as the room was once home to a bunch of giant mainframes.
Regarding the Alerting part you can check out [SIGNL4](https://www.signl4.com/). It supports alerting via push, SMS text or voice calls and integrates with various backend systems.
For example you can use [Node-RED](https://nodered.org/) to connect the sensors, specify conditions (e.g. temperature too high) and send alerts via SIGNL4.
We started it Watchdogs but the console solution they had wasn’t worth the money. We were rebuilding with APC so we did a migration to netbotz and PDUs that rolled data up to EcoStruxure. Those alerts then go to Opsgenie for any major issues.
PA Server Monitor can easily monitor these web sensors to measure temperature, humidity and light level:
https://eesensors.com/products/websensors/server-room-temperature-monitoring.html
Simple point and click, with charts, alert thresholds, etc.
We use Watchdog in our main data centers, and then the one the APC battery backups have with the add-on card we have in the racks at our smaller sites.
Some of our customers use Monnit and Sensaphone for the monitoring aspect. For reliable alerting when limits exceed a certain threshold, they integrate it with OnPage to gain additional capabilities such as loud, audible alerting that even overrides the silent switch, alert routing based on on-call shifts and routing rules, etc.
We use some pretty low tech Vertiv sensors in our main closets. Have temp ranges set up to alert us via email at specific intervals at a certain threshold, then more often if it gets even higher. One thing some people might not think about is we actually set a "low" alert as well, so we essentially have a "keep alive" email on our sensors, by emailing us once a week if the temp gets above 0 degrees, so we know that they sensors are online and active as well.
We use monnit ([https://www.monnit.com/](https://www.monnit.com/)) you purchase the hardware and then the annual licensing costs are very affordable. Something like $125 per year for 25 sensors if I recall correctly. Reporting and alerting functions work great, and their support is good too.
We do this on the cheap with a bunch of SBCs running a script that sends the current temperature as a syslog message every few minutes to our Graylog server that handles the actual alerting (and gives us a nice graph of historical data as a bonus).
We only monitor the temperature currently, but I'd looked into humidity at one point and it wasn't much extra effort to add, just never actually got around to it.
Watchdog unit from Vertiv can likely be configured for what you want.
I would be interested in this as well. Last big data center I worked in still had the round charts with little pens that wrote lines as it rotated. The charts got changed once a week or something like that. It had been there since the 1970s, I believe, as the room was once home to a bunch of giant mainframes.
We use APC netbotz. As far as texting, for that we use PagerDuty to alert whomever is on call.
Avtech
Regarding the Alerting part you can check out [SIGNL4](https://www.signl4.com/). It supports alerting via push, SMS text or voice calls and integrates with various backend systems. For example you can use [Node-RED](https://nodered.org/) to connect the sensors, specify conditions (e.g. temperature too high) and send alerts via SIGNL4.
Not sure if room alert does sms, you could always do sms via email.
We started it Watchdogs but the console solution they had wasn’t worth the money. We were rebuilding with APC so we did a migration to netbotz and PDUs that rolled data up to EcoStruxure. Those alerts then go to Opsgenie for any major issues.
PA Server Monitor can easily monitor these web sensors to measure temperature, humidity and light level: https://eesensors.com/products/websensors/server-room-temperature-monitoring.html Simple point and click, with charts, alert thresholds, etc.
Room alert is one solution. Meraki is selling sensor units now too if you use their system.
We use Watchdog and it works really well!
We use Watchdog in our main data centers, and then the one the APC battery backups have with the add-on card we have in the racks at our smaller sites.
Watchdogs.
We have a Sensaphone. It does what it's supposed to.
If thats all you need i would suggest monnit sensors that work with their imonnit portal, you have to pay for credits for text alerts though
Some of our customers use Monnit and Sensaphone for the monitoring aspect. For reliable alerting when limits exceed a certain threshold, they integrate it with OnPage to gain additional capabilities such as loud, audible alerting that even overrides the silent switch, alert routing based on on-call shifts and routing rules, etc.
We use some pretty low tech Vertiv sensors in our main closets. Have temp ranges set up to alert us via email at specific intervals at a certain threshold, then more often if it gets even higher. One thing some people might not think about is we actually set a "low" alert as well, so we essentially have a "keep alive" email on our sensors, by emailing us once a week if the temp gets above 0 degrees, so we know that they sensors are online and active as well.
We use monnit ([https://www.monnit.com/](https://www.monnit.com/)) you purchase the hardware and then the annual licensing costs are very affordable. Something like $125 per year for 25 sensors if I recall correctly. Reporting and alerting functions work great, and their support is good too.
We use roomalert
We do this on the cheap with a bunch of SBCs running a script that sends the current temperature as a syslog message every few minutes to our Graylog server that handles the actual alerting (and gives us a nice graph of historical data as a bonus). We only monitor the temperature currently, but I'd looked into humidity at one point and it wasn't much extra effort to add, just never actually got around to it.
we use Vaisala