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Chris Churilo

Chris Churilo helps businesses build passionate teams that market to the developer audience by building content and programs that are engaging, and drives demand for the product that results in revenue. As the Vice President of Marketing at InfluxData, she has oversight of day-to-day marketing operations to ensure that growth marketing, comms, digital, partner and customer marketing as well as demand gen all function as a tight cohesive unit aligned with the company’s goals. For Chris, sharing the cool projects that developers build with InfluxDB is the most rewarding part of the role. Outside of the office, Chris enjoys singing to her dog, kick-starting her nonprofit, and downwinding on her paddleboard across the bay.

Gaining Real-Time Insight into AWS Spend Using a Time Series Platform

By Chris Churilo / Nov 15, 2019 / Community, Telegraf, Developer, InfluxDB Enterprise

“It used to be, without having this level of insight into where your expenses were at, it was sort of just a black box,” says Robert Allen, director of engineering at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) and part of the company’s Bedrock...

Event Monitoring Visibility Made Easy: Sensu Check Metric Extraction with InfluxDB and Grafana

By Chris Churilo / Sep 10, 2019 / InfluxDB, Community, Telegraf, Developer, Grafana

Monitoring dynamic, distributed environments often results in costly monitoring solution choices for developers seeking scalability, but your monitoring solution doesn’t have to be expensive. Sensu, InfluxDB, and Grafana open source tools with enterprise counterparts can work together to create a complete,...

Minimize Downtime in Production with Cloud-Based Distributed Load Testing

By Chris Churilo / Aug 29, 2019 / InfluxDB Cloud, Developer

We all know that downtime costs money potentially thousands of dollars per minute for large enterprises not to mention the impact on brand reputation and customer satisfaction. While often overlooked, load testing is one way to help mitigate downtime risk by ensuring...

InfluxDB vs. Splunk for Time Series Data, Metrics & Management

By Chris Churilo / Aug 12, 2019 / InfluxDB, Community

At InfluxData, one of the questions we regularly get asked by developers and architects alike is: “How does InfluxDB compare to Splunk for time series workloads?” This question might be prompted for a couple of reasons. First, if they’re starting a...

Using Time Series for Application Performance Monitoring to Win at the Flight E-ticket Sales Game

By Chris Churilo / Jul 03, 2019 / InfluxDB, Telegraf, Developer

One of the best ways to demonstrate the value of application performance monitoring (APM) and its relation to time series data is through a real-world success story. Here we introduce the application performance monitoring solution used by Web Shop Fly, a...

InfluxDB vs. Graphite for Time Series Data & Metrics Benchmark

By Chris Churilo / May 31, 2019 / InfluxDB, Community, Elasticsearch, Time Series Database

This blog post has been updated on September 10, 2020 with the latest benchmark results for InfluxDB 1.8.0 and Graphite 1.1.7. This blog is regularly updated with the latest benchmark figures. At InfluxData, one of the common questions we regularly get...

Why You Want Easy-to-Setup Grafana Dashboards

By Chris Churilo / Mar 29, 2019 / InfluxDB, Community, Telegraf, Developer, Grafana

The list of reasons to adopt Grafana dashboards is long. Among other things, Grafana dashboards are excellent tools for gaining insight into time-series data. In addition, Grafana readily integrates with InfluxDB and Telegraf to make monitoring of sensor, system and network...

Get One-Click Access to InfluxData Time Series Platform on Google Cloud

By Chris Churilo / Oct 11, 2018 / InfluxData, InfluxDB, Developer, InfluxDB Enterprise

InfluxData today announced it is newly listed on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Marketplace, which offers ready-to-go development stacks, solutions, and services to accelerate development. Now Google Cloud users have one-click access to the industry’s leading Time Series Platform for collection...

Easily Gather, Store and Analyze IoT Data in Google Cloud IoT Using Telegraf

By Chris Churilo / Oct 10, 2018 / InfluxData, InfluxDB, Telegraf, Developer

Today we announced the integration of InfluxData’s Telegraf with Google Cloud IoTa complete set of tools to connect, process, store, and analyze data both at the edge and in the cloud. This integration accelerates Time to Awesome for Google Cloud IoT...

Plot Your Telegraf Metrics in Azure Monitor

By Chris Churilo / Sep 25, 2018 / Telegraf, Developer, Azure

Today we announced Microsoft’s inclusion of Telegraf with their monitoring solution Azure Monitor, which they describe as Azure Monitor’s Unified Metrics Store. Azure Monitor is a platform that allows users to collect performance and utilization metrics from Azure resources. It comes...

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