Monitoring Jenkins with InfluxDB
A critical part of DevOps is Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment. Jenkins is the most popular Continuous Integration tool. Jenkins is an open source, Java-based automation tool that enables organizations to continuously build, test, and deploy software. Jenkins plugins (of which there are...
The Algorithm That Ties Together Google Maps and InfluxData's Giraffe
One of the best parts about being a developer advocate is being able to share the developer’s work with the community. Working at InfluxData also means the code, projects or ideas that I blog about come from exceptional engineers who, like...
InfluxDB and Kafka: How InfluxData Uses Kafka in Production
Following CTO Paul Dix’s original release announcement for InfluxDB 2.0 and a new release of InfluxDB Cloud 2.0 to public beta, I thought the community would be interested in learning about how InfluxData provides a multi-tenanted, horizontally scalable time series storage....
InfluxDB and Kafka: How Companies are Integrating the Two
As Kafka and time series databases gain popularity, it becomes increasingly valuable to understand how they are paired together to provide robust real-time data pipeline solutions. As the saying goes, the whole pipeline is greater than the sum of the Kafka...
Running InfluxDB on AWS with Cloud Formation
Coding bootcamps are great. I learned a lot, and it enabled me to land a Developer Advocacy role. However, despite an extensive curriculum and excellent instructors, I still came out lacking a lot of basic knowledge. I took a Data Science...
Community Highlight: How Timbergrove Uses InfluxDB to Offer a Smart Workplace Kit
Timbergrove is an American-based creative technology studio and consulting firm. For over a decade, Timbergrove has been using hardware and software to solve business problems. Timbergrove has a unique culture compared to other workplaces. They use their status as an IBM...
The Chande Momentum Oscillator and InfluxDB
I’m sitting in my friend’s living room. He’s sitting cross-legged in white linen pants, with his hands casually placed on his knees, nodding gently. His guests are part of a fairly successful pop band, and they’re recounting their adventures from their...
Autocorrelation in Time Series Data
A time series, as the name suggests, is a series of data points that are listed in chronological order. More often than not, time series are used to track the changes of certain things over short and long periods – with...
How to Write Points from CSV to InfluxDB
This blog has been updated since the time of writing. For the up-to-date version of this post, see this newer version. Telegraf is InfluxData’s plugin-driven server agent for collecting and reporting metrics. There are over 200 input plugins, which means there’s...
How to Use InfluxDB's Holt-Winters Function for Predictions
Welcome to Part Three of this three-part blog post series. To understand Part Three, I suggest reading Part One and Two first. In Part One, we covered: When to use Holt-Winters How Single Exponential Smoothing works A conceptual overview of optimization for...