Grafana dashboard: readsb
Description: Using Prometheus as a datasource to visualise readsb data

Used to visualise metrics collected from the mikenye/readsb-protobuf docker image.

This dashboard aims to emulate the majority of the functionality of graphs1090, but using Prometheus and Grafana.

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