Three Ways to Keep Cardinality Under Control When Using Telegraf
This article will show how we kept cardinality under control with a few tweaks in the Telegraf configuration. If you’re not yet familiar with it, Telegraf is the native and open-source plugin-driver metrics collection agent of InfluxDB. As you may know,...
How to Control Crowds with Python, OpenCV and InfluxDB
As I mentioned a while ago, I am learning to develop in Python; it seems that it is a super easy language to interpret, and so far, I have not found a “no” when trying to do things with it. I...
Monitoring DigitalOcean Billing with InfluxDB
I’ve always had a good experience using DigitalOcean, a cloud infrastructure provider which offers developers cloud services that help deploy and scale applications that run simultaneously on multiple computers. I’ve used DigitalOcean a lot for my personal projects for example, to...
HAProxy Monitoring (the InfluxDB Way)
My personal experience with HAProxy dates back to my work with a previous company, where we used HAProxy to do load balancing between pairs of servers with specific roles. Those servers are the core of the major payment gateway in Uruguay,...
Automating SSL Certificate Expiration Monitoring
In my previous work experience, monitoring certificate validation was critical to our team. These certificates were used to sign commercial transactions between the payment gateway (us) and other providers. That check was manual and depended on the calendar of one person....
Why I Joined InfluxData - Ignacio Van Droogenbroeck
A few things pop up in my head to quickly answer why I joined this company, and I want to share them with you. People & values “People” is the first thing that comes to mind when I ask myself why...
Monitoring COVID-19 in South America with InfluxDB
Monitoring COVID-19 metrics has become essential as the Coronavirus pandemic continues to impact countries across the globe. Mitigating virus impact and spread requires ongoing tracking of metrics such as cases and fatalities. This is what the InfluxDB COVID-19 Monitoring Template does....