CTS 385: Building Your Own Wi-Fi Dashboard Using APIs and Grafana
From Clear To Send: Wireless Network Engineering by Rowell Dionicio and François Vergès
February 2, 2026 · 25 min
About this episode
In this episode, the hosts explore building a Wi-Fi dashboard using Python, APIs, and Grafana as part of an automation journey.
Thank you to our sponsor: Meter: Visit meter.com/cleartosend to book a demo! In this episode, we’re diving into some Python and APIs to visualize data within Grafana. This episode is part of Rowell’s automation journey. He has been learning Python with his daughter. For Rowell, this is just the beginning as he starts integrating Grafana with InfluxDB and Telegraf. A lot more has to be learned in addition to Python and API. Within the video, we look into the Mist API and see how Rowell was able to develop a script to pull specific information that could be part of a dashboard within Grafana. Resources * Mist Postman Collection: https://www.postman.com/juniper-mist * Mist API Documentation: https://www.juniper.net/documentation/us/en/software/mist/api/http/getting-started/how-to-get-started * Install the TIG stack: https://www.turbogeek.co.uk/grafana-ubuntu-tig-stack/ * Github: https://github.com/rowelldionicio/telegraf/tree/main/code * Zero to Network Automation: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7LMO8gfmDqzg736fj1n1FAr8ln2Vz8Hx
People in this episode
Hosts: Rowell Dionicio, François Vergès
Topics covered
- Wi-Fi Dashboard
- APIs
- Grafana
- Python
- Network Automation
- Data Visualization
Keywords
- Wi-Fi
- Grafana
- APIs
- Python
- InfluxDB
- Telegraf
- Mist API
- Network Automation
Sponsors
Meter
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Mist, InfluxDB, Telegraf, Postman, Github, TurboGeek, YouTube
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