Yes, You Subscribed Correctly. The OPC UA Client Listener Plugin Has Been Released!
This article would not be possible without the contribution of Lars Stegman. The OPC UA Client Listener Plugin was his own contribution to a long-standing issue. Telegraf now includes a new plugin highly anticipated by the community. The OPC UA Client...
How to Reduce Telegraf Binary Size with a Customized Telegraf Agent
Is Telegraf too big for your device? Too many plugins in one binary getting you down? Let me introduce you to the Telegraf custom builder – the new tool for reducing Telegraf’s overall memory and disk footprint. In this blog, we...
InfluxDB Cloud Native Collectors, Enterprise and Industrial IoT Examples - Part 2
Learn how to deploy InfluxDB Cloud’s Native Collectors with Kepware and the Things Network. In Part 1 of the blog series, we discussed connecting Kepware to InfluxDB using the new InfluxDB Cloud feature Native Collectors! As promised, let’s now discuss how...
InfluxDB Cloud Native Collectors, Enterprise and Industrial IoT Examples - Part 1
Learn how to deploy InfluxDB Cloud’s Native Collectors with Kepware and The Things Network. Did you hear about the new feature that just dropped to InfluxDB Cloud? Native Collectors! Starting with MQTT. There will be plenty of content to get you...
The Return of the InfluxDB V1 Shell
The community has spoken and the demand was clear: “BRING BACK THE INTERACTIVE SHELL USED IN 1.X” So it’s back… It works with InfluxDB V2… and has some improvements. The interactive shell allowed users to write data and interactively query data...
What the Pivot() is Going On with the MQTT Plugin?
The MQTT Consumer Plugin is one of our most widely used input plugins for Telegraf. If you need a little bit of background, then I highly recommend checking out the following: MQTT Consumer documentation MQTT Topic and Payload Parsing I plan...
MQTT vs Kafka: An IoT Advocate’s Perspective (Part 3 - A Match Made in Heaven)
So here we are…the final chapter. In Part 2 of this series, we started to drill down into some of the concepts that make Kafka great. We concluded that although terminology between MQTT and Kafka was similar (for example topics), they...
Telegraf Best Practices: SNMP Plugin
Telegraf has now reached 300+ plugins and is deployed in a wide variety of use cases. In January we released a blog post covering the golden rules for creating configs and optimizing your Telegraf agent. It’s now about time we got...
MQTT vs Kafka: An IoT Advocate’s Perspective (Part 2 – Kafka the Mighty)
In Part 1 of this series, we started to compare the uses of Kafka and MQTT within an IoT infrastructure. It was concluded that in a basic publish-and-subscribe model of an IoT device, Kafka might simply be overkill. However, we also...
MQTT vs Kafka: An IoT Advocate's Perspective (Part 1 - The Basics)
With the Kafka Summit fast approaching, I thought it was time to get my hands dirty and see what it’s all about. As an advocate for IoT, I heard about Kafka but was too embedded in protocols like MQTT to investigate...