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This is the official user's manual for the PowerGoblin tool. PowerGoblin is an open source tool for managing and aggregating power measurement data.

A typical power measurement setup consists of 1) a controller machine that runs the PowerGoblin instance, 2) a power meter hardware (e.g. Hardkernel SmartPower), and 3) the system under test (SUT). PowerGoblin can measure any devices supported by the power meter, even non-digital devices. The intro section presents simple hardware configurations for simple measurement.

You can easily navigate by choosing one of the main sections from the navigation bar above or use the table of contents to navigate to different sections. There is a separate technical manual for more advanced users / developers.

• Introduction to power measurements
  • The measurement process
  • Evaluation of hardware meters
  • Evaluation of software meters
  • Practical issues of power measurement
  • Buying recommendations
• Installation
  • Setting up the hardware
  • Obtaining the software
  • Configuring the drivers & software
  • Additional configuration
• User interface
  • Launching the application
  • Documentation for the user interface
• Performing measurements
  • Introduction, terminology
  • PowerGoblin's API v2
  • PowerGoblin's API v1
  • Resource consumption
  • Analyzing the data
  • Example configuration: Energy efficiency of sorting algorithms
  • Example configuration: Energy measurement of front-end software
  • Example configuration: Energy measurement of back-end software
  • Example configuration: Docker deployment
  • Example configuration: Docker Compose setup tutorial on WordPress
  • Lab demo
• Troubleshooting

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Changelog

• Friday, August 30, 2024: Initial version.

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Found a bug?

Please report all bugs to the project's public bug tracker.