An Introduction to Apache Parquet
This article was originally published in The New Stack and is reposted here with permission. A look at what Parquet is, how it works and some of the companies using its optimization techniques as a critical component in their architecture. As...
Import JSON data into InfluxDB using the Python, Go, and JavaScript Client Libraries
Devices, developers, applications, and services produce and utilize enormous amounts of JSON data every day. A portion of this data consists of time-stamped events or metrics that are a perfect match for storing and analyzing in InfluxDB. To help developers build...
Monitoring Network Outages at the Edge and in the Cloud
This article was originally published in The New Stack and is reposted here with permission. Gathering data to explore a problem with power outages creating connectivity issues and ultimately draining a laptop battery. Monitoring locations that have intermittent power and/or connectivity...
The Best Query Language to Use with InfluxDB
People often ask us, “What is the best query language to use with InfluxDB?” The answer to this question has evolved a bit over the years – and the current answer might surprise you. The early days InfluxDB’s first query language...
Partitioning for Performance in a Sharding Database System
This article was originally published in InfoWorld and is reposted here with permission. Partitioning can provide a number of benefits to a sharding system, including faster query execution. Let’s see how it works. In a previous post, I described a sharding...
Yes, You Subscribed Correctly. The OPC UA Client Listener Plugin Has Been Released!
This article would not be possible without the contribution of Lars Stegman. The OPC UA Client Listener Plugin was his own contribution to a long-standing issue. Telegraf now includes a new plugin highly anticipated by the community. The OPC UA Client...
InfluxDB is 5x Faster vs. MongoDB for Time Series Workloads
This blog post has been updated on November 17, 2022 with the latest benchmark results for InfluxDB v1.8.10 and MongoDB v5.0.6. To provide you with the latest findings, this blog is regularly updated with the latest benchmark figures. At InfluxData, one...
Scaling Throughput and Performance in a Sharding Database System
This article was originally published in InfoWorld and is reposted here with permission. Understand the two dimensions of scaling for database query and ingest workloads, and how sharding can make scaling elastic — or not. Scaling throughput and performance are critical...
Reducing MTTR for DevOps and SREs with PagerDuty Process Automation and InfluxDB
Mean time to resolution (MTTR) is a metric that transcends industry and technology. It’s a measure of how quickly, on average, support teams identify, act, and resolve IT issues and incidents. Because MTTR directly relates to service quality, maintaining a low...
Getting Started with Fluentd for Data Collection
This article was written by Thinus Swart. Scroll down for the author’s bio. Fluentd is an open source data collector capable of retrieving and receiving event data from several sources and then filtering, buffering, and routing data to different compatible destinations....