How to Build Grafana Dashboards with InfluxDB, Flux, and InfluxQL
We’re excited about today’s release of Grafana 7.1, which extends Grafana’s built-in InfluxDB datasource to run queries in both the Flux language and InfluxQL. This means it’s super easy to connect Grafana to InfluxDB whether you use InfluxDB 1.8 or 2.0,...
InfluxDB Cloud Now Beta on Azure
InfluxDB Cloud is now beta on Microsoft Azure and we’d like you to try it out so we can work to make sure it’s ready for general availability (GA). If you’re already familiar with InfluxDB, head over to cloud2.influxdata.com to sign...
How to Run a Time Series Database on Azure
Today we’re pleased to announce the general availability of InfluxDB Enterprise on Microsoft’s Azure Marketplace. This brings the industry’s leading time series database to Azure Marketplace, which lets you: Instantly provision and deploy InfluxDB on any of 33 Azure regions Pay...
Datadog vs. InfluxDB
If you’re responsible for monitoring, chances are you’ve heard of Datadog. Like InfluxDB, Datadog is a monitoring platform for cloud applications, bringing together data from containers, servers, databases and third-party services. InfluxData and Datadog approach monitoring from different starting points. InfluxDB...
InfluxDB Templates: Easily Share Your Monitoring Expertise
If you’re the resident expert in your company on a particular technology, you probably get asked a lot of questions about it: how to set it up, how to maintain it, how to monitor it. While it’s great to be recognized...
InfluxDB is Now Available in Google Cloud Marketplace
In February, we announced the general availability of InfluxDB on Google Cloud, as well as a rich set of integrations that allow you to use our time series data platform to monitor your Google Cloud services, store sensor data from Google...
InfluxDB Cloud Now Available on Google Cloud
Today we’re excited to announce the general availability of InfluxDB Cloud for Google Cloud. With this new service, GCP users can now use our leading time series data platform on Google infrastructure. This lets you address a wide range of use...
AWS Marketplace Billing Now Available for InfluxDB
Does your company use AWS Billing and Cost Management? Now you can put your InfluxDB charges straight onto your AWS bill. This applies to both InfluxDB Cloud and InfluxDB Enterprise on the AWS Marketplace. Why does AWS Marketplace Billing matter? You...
AWS re:invent 2019 See You There!
We’re looking forward to participating at AWS re:Invent 2019 in Las Vegas. Since it’s a huge show, I thought I’d put together this guide to AWS re:Invent 2019. So, let’s dive in! Where is InfluxData at re:Invent? Speaking of re:Invent sessions,...
Monitoring AWS with Telegraf & InfluxDB Cloud
Recently I’ve been playing with InfluxDB Cloud and Telegraf for synthetic monitoring of Amazon Web Services API endpoints, and thought I’d share my configuration notes. What are InfluxDB and Telegraf? InfluxDB is an open-source time series database, and Telegraf is a software agent for sending time-series data to InfluxDB. Telegraf has hundreds of plugins to...