Processing SCADA Alarm Data Records Offline with ELK

Open-source tools for industrial automation

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This article continues a series where we use open-source Data Science tools to analyze alarm and event logs produced by SCADA systems.

This is the third article in the series, previous articles included,

1. Processing SCADA Alarm Data Offline with ELK
2. SCADA Alarm Standards & Metrics

In Processing SCADA Alarm Data Offline with ELK, the following was presented,

• An introduction to industrial control systems (a.k.a SCADA systems), their architecture, and purpose
• The ElasticSearch stack (ELK) was introduced and installed
• Alarm and event logs from a commercial SCADA system were cleaned and loaded into ELK
• A simple analysis of the raw alarm events was completed using ElasticSearch Kibana and simple dashboards created

In SCADA Alarm Standards & Metrics the following was covered:

• Alarm management standards
• The alarm lifecycle
• Alarm system performance metrics

That is where we have been, but where are we going? In this article, we will…