AWS IoT TwinMaker app

The AWS IoT TwinMaker app for Grafana lets you build end-user 3D digital twin applications to monitor industrial operations. AWS IoT TwinMaker is a service that helps developers create digital replicas of real-world systems, such as factories and industrial equipment, so you can optimize operations using digital twins.

Note
Use Grafana version 10.4.0 or later with the AWS IoT TwinMaker app.

What’s included

AWS IoT TwinMaker is an app plugin, not a standalone data source plugin. Installing the app adds all of the following components to your Grafana instance:

AWS IoT TwinMaker data source: Queries entities, components, properties, and alarms from your TwinMaker workspace.
Scene Viewer panel: Renders an interactive 3D scene from your workspace with data-bound tags.
Video Player panel: Plays video from Amazon Kinesis Video Streams, including streams associated with TwinMaker video components.
Alarm Configuration panel: Views and edits alarm thresholds and notification settings.
Query Editor panel: Embeds the AWS IoT TwinMaker query builder to explore workspace data.
Pre-built dashboards: A main dashboard and an alarm dashboard you can import from the data source configuration page.
Register links transformation: Sets dashboard template variables when you click a row in a table panel.

The app is enabled automatically after installation, and the data source appears in the Industrial & IoT section when you add a new connection.

Supported features

The following table lists the features available with the bundled data source.

Feature	Supported
Metrics	Yes
Logs	No
Traces	No
Alerting	Yes
Annotations	No
Template variables	Yes
Streaming	Yes
Private data source connect (PDC)	Yes

Requirements

To use the AWS IoT TwinMaker app, you need:

A Grafana instance running version 10.4.0 or later.
An AWS account with an AWS IoT TwinMaker workspace.
An IAM role for your TwinMaker dashboard that the data source can assume. The data source requires this role’s Amazon Resource Name.

Get started

The following pages help you get started with the AWS IoT TwinMaker app.

Additional features

After you configure the data source, you can use the following Grafana features.

Use Explore to query data without building a dashboard.
Add Transformations to manipulate query results.
Set up Alerting rules to get notified when data changes.
Configure and use Template variables to build dynamic dashboards.

Example dashboard

Interact with a demo TwinMaker dashboard in Grafana Play. The dashboard monitors a cookie factory by visualizing a 3D factory, listing alarms, graphing temperature sensor history, and playing a video camera stream.

Cookie Factory Demo

Plugin updates

Always ensure that your plugin version is up-to-date so you have access to all current features and improvements. Navigate to Plugins and data > Plugins to check for updates. Grafana recommends upgrading to the latest Grafana version, and this applies to plugins as well.