When Is the Gym Least Crowded? Building a Gym Occupancy Dashboard
📌 TL;DR
I wanted to stop guessing when my local gym would be packed, so I built a personal dashboard to tell me.
💾 The Full Story
Blinks app and website offer limited information on how many people are in the gym.
🥃 Distilled Story
- Deployed a script to scrape real-time gym occupancy data from Blink’s exposed API
- Stored the data in a time-series database (InfluxDB) for efficient querying and retention
- Visualized occupancy trends using a Grafana dashboard for monitoring and analysis