Building Unified OT/IT Observability with Ignition, Telegraf, and InfluxDB

Session Date: May 14, 2026
Time: 8:00am (PT) | 3:00pm (GMT)

Observability in industrial environments is no longer optional—you can’t optimize what you can’t see. As teams instrument Ignition gateways and scale deployments across multiple sites, they encounter a critical challenge: observability data and operational telemetry remain isolated in separate systems.

SkyIo works across manufacturing environments where equipment, protocols, and data sources vary widely from site to site. Join us on May 14 to see how InfluxDB, Telegraf Enterprise, and the broader TIG stack (Telegraf, InfluxDB, & Grafana) solve this problem, unifying observability and operational analytics in a single platform fit into those architectures, from single-plant deployments to multi-site fleets.

Calvin Hamus, Digital Factory Consultant at SkyIO, and Ben Corbett, Senior Solutions Engineer at InfluxData, will walk through a working industrial IoT setup and demo the architecture live. The session covers how Telegraf Enterprise ingests both OpenTelemetry metrics and live tag data from OPC UA servers like Ignition’s, landing both streams in InfluxDB as a unified time series store.

We will also covers Telegraf Enterprise’s plugin ecosystem and how InfluxDB fits alongside (or in place of) traditional data historians.

Key takeaways:

• How eliminate data silos by collecting OPC UA tag data and OpenTelemetry metrics through a single pipeline
• What a edge-to-hub InfluxDB architecture looks like in practice, from site-local to northbound enterprise instances for multi-site visibility
• How to store observability and operational telemetry together in InfluxDB, enabling unified visibility across IT and OT teams
• When Telegraf Enterprise’s centralized controller and white-glove support make sense for large-scale deployments versus open source Telegraf
• Where a Python processing engine fits for workloads like predictive maintenance and anomaly detection

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Calvin Hamus

Digital Factory Consultant - Cloud and AI

Calvin Hamus is a digital manufacturing leader at SkyIO who specializes in bridging IT and OT to help organizations modernize their operations. With more than a decade of experience working with cloud platforms, MES, SCADA, IoT, and data architecture, Calvin has led high-impact transformations across multiple industries. His work includes launching SaaS products, architecting enterprise-scale digital solutions, and advising executives on Industry 4.0 strategy. Calvin is known for his ability to translate between engineering, operations, and IT leadership, helping companies uncover opportunities and turn data into real-world outcomes.

Ben Corbett

Solutions Engineer, InfluxData

Ben Corbett is a Solutions Engineer at InfluxData. He has been working in the real-time solutions space since graduating with a 1st class Masters from the University of Bath in Mechanical Engineering, putting his love for connecting the digital and physical worlds into practice through developing many IoT platforms and real-time applications across the Energy, Manufacturing, Agriculture, Construction, Smart Building, and Electric Vehicle sectors. Since joining InfluxData, Ben has worked with our EMEA and APAC customers to understand and demonstrate the value of InfluxDB as applied to their specific use case or time series challenges.