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...
InfluxDB Tops Cassandra in Time Series Data & Metrics Benchmark
This blog post has been updated on October 20, 2022 with the latest benchmark results for InfluxDB 1.8.10 and Cassandra v4.0.5. To provide you with the latest findings, this blog is regularly updated with the latest benchmark figures. At InfluxData, one...
Real-Time Energy Management with InfluxDB and eSoftLink IoT Platform
Smart energy IoT platforms are empowering consumers to track energy usage and even control spend based on their next bill’s forecast. Yet eSoftThings, a specialist in the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI), set out to push smart energy...
How Strivve is Helping Credit Card Issuers Capture Lost Revenue and Gain Visibility
“We all get our credit cards replaced a lot. Our online ecosystem is getting more complex with the number of accounts we have. We wanted to simplify that, and make it less complicated to get those cards back on file,” says...
Network Usage Visibility from the Free InfluxDB sFlow Monitoring Template
As business-critical applications increasingly rely on network services, even a minor change in network usage can impact network performance and reliability, thereby also impacting business functions and network maintenance costs. sFlow (short for “sampled flow”) by providing unprecedented visibility into network...
Monitoring Telegraf Plugins in Your Architecture
Monitoring Telegraf — the open source, plugin-driven server agent for collecting metrics from stacks, sensors and systems — is important because it allows you to track the health of Telegraf plugins in your stack. It’s for this purpose that the Telegraf...
Monitoring Endpoint Security States with InfluxDB
Several factors in recent years have increased endpoint vulnerability from organizations’ need to make access to data more fluid, to threats targeting mobile device access and networks, to the growing work-from-home and work-on-the-go trends. Endpoints connected to a network including remote...
Getting a Headstart with the Docker Monitoring Template
The growing popularity of Docker has led many enterprises to containerize applications. By 2022, more than 75% of global organizations will be running containerized applications in production, Gartner predicts, up from less than 30% today. Yet the shift to containers has...
Tracking CS:GO Stats with InfluxDB
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) – a multiplayer first-person shooter video game developed by Valve and Hidden Path Entertainment – is the fourth game in the now-legendary Counter-Strike series. Since its release, CS:GO has drawn in an estimated 11 million players per...
Achieve Better Observability into AWS Services with the AWS CloudWatch Monitoring Template
Amazon CloudWatch – Amazon’s built-in infrastructure monitoring tool – monitors your Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources and the applications you run on AWS in real time. Here’s what you can do with this tool and how to access AWS CloudWatch monitoring...