Plant Buddy is an IoT project that involves soldering sensors to an Arduino device and teaching it to communicate directly with InfluxDB Cloud for monitoring plants. The project also includes developing an app for users to visualize and create alerts from their uploaded Plant Buddy device data in a custom user experience. This article provides a companion blog using the UI instead of the CLI, highlighting how to use the InfluxData platform with its various features such as generating tokens, uploading line protocol, running queries, downsampling, creating tasks, and setting up notifications.