Webinar Highlights: How Texas Instruments Uses InfluxDB
It’s back to school season, and oftentimes, that means people are purchasing TI-84 calculators for their kids. But did you know that Texas Instruments makes so much more than calculators? Michael Hinkle, a Probe Engineering and Manufacturing Supervisor at Texas Instruments,...
Community Highlight: How InfluxDB Enables IoT Sensor Monitoring of Aquariums
I recently spoke with Jeremy White who is using InfluxDB to monitor his aquariums. By collecting IoT sensor data, he has been able to better understand his 200 gallon salt-water aquarium full of fish and coral. The entire project can be...
How InfluxDB Helps Retail Organizations Prepare for the Cyber Five Weekend
The five-day period from Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday is known as the Cyber Five Weekend (also known as Cyber 5). Forbes estimates that people spent $3.7 billion on Thanksgiving Day in 2018. They approximate that over 165 million people shopped over...
Community Highlight: How InfluxDB Enables IoT Monitoring of Gas Station Tanks
I recently spoke with Alex Skrivseth, the Operations Manager at The Shed App, and discovered how he’s using InfluxDB to monitor the current levels of gas and diesel at various gas stations. Simply by extracting IoT sensor data, he has been...
How Playtech Fixed Metrics Over-Collection with Observability
According to Forbes, 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created every day. Data volumes have grown exponentially in recent years due to the growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) and sensors. The majority of data collected has been collected in the...
WayKonect Uses InfluxDB to Improve Fleet Management
The fleet management industry has been quick to embrace technology. They want to understand the current state of vehicles and drivers to improve operations and safety. Data privacy laws are especially important as fleet managers expand their reach into new territories....
Webinar Highlights: How EnerKey Uses InfluxDB and Azure to Save Customers Millions
EnerKey’s CTO Martti Kontula recently presented on how EnerKey uses InfluxDB Enterprise and Microsoft Azure to power their IoT platform which enables their customers to save millions of euros! Their analytics platform uses sensor data to detect energy usage fluctuations triggered...
Webinar Highlights: Modern vSphere Monitoring and Dashboards Using InfluxDB, Telegraf and Grafana
Recently InfluxAce Jorge de la Cruz presented on “Modern vSphere Monitoring and Dashboards Using InfluxDB, Telegraf and Grafana”. Jorge is a Systems Engineer at Veeam Software and has been using InfluxDB for years. In case you missed attending the live session,...
Getting Excited for Flux Training: IoT-Sensor-Enabled Pizza Making
Our upcoming Flux Training (June 8-9) will be using an IoT-sensor-enabled pizza oven and corresponding time-stamped data as an example. You will be learning Flux while discussing how the temperature and the humidity levels of a pizza oven can impact the...
First Contact Day
In “Star Trek: First Contact,” the USS Enterprise-E and her crew are sent through a temporal vortex in an attempt to stop the Borg from preventing the human civilization’s first warp flight, which leads to the first contact with an extraterrestrial...