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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -====================================== - kerbana - a data management platform -====================================== +==================================================== + kerbana - a data storage and visualization platform +====================================================  kerbana is a platform that receives data from MQTT, saves it into RRDs  (Round Robin Databases) and generates and serves user-configured graphs. @@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ few users. Think environmental monitoring at home, not data monitoring  inside a datacenter (there are already many other versatile, if complex,  solutions for that usecase). +It has been written by a backend developer for backend developers and +bearded sysadmins, and thus its perceived ugliness is a design and +usability choice. +  The name comes from kerbaną_, cognate of γράφω_  .. _kerbaną: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kerban%C4%85  | 
