UPS Status: power outage alerts
A dashboard that watches UPS units over SNMP and raises the alarm the instant one drops to battery, turning a silent power loss into minutes of warning.
- Client
- GRASSMARK OY
- Role
- Software, SNMP & deployment
- Stack
- MONITORING · SNMP · REALTIME
A UPS switching to battery is a silent event. Nothing in the room announces it, and in a live production the first sign is often the runtime running out, by which point the decision has been made for you.
A Python service polls every unit over SNMP, and the dashboard shows charge, load and estimated runtime at a glance. The moment a unit transfers to battery it raises a loud alarm.
What matters is the minutes between that transfer and an empty battery: enough to shed load, start a generator, or see the segment through to the end.
Those minutes have been needed twice so far, including at Kuninkuusravit 2025 in Oulu.