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Josh Powers

Josh Powers

Josh Powers is a Senior Engineer on the Telegraf team at InfluxData. He designs and develops the future of Telegraf, assists customers, and reviews community pull requests. Before he joined InfluxData, he worked on open source and Linux at Canonical and HP. Josh holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

InfluxDB SQL Queries with Python

Recently InfluxData announced SQL support in InfluxDB Cloud, powered by IOx. Users can now use familiar SQL queries to explore and analyze their time series data. The SQL support was introduced along with the usage of Apache Arrow. Apache Arrow is...

Apple M1 and RISC-V Support for Telegraf

Telegraf is the open-source server agent to help you collect metrics from your stacks, sensors, and systems. Telegraf supports almost a dozen architectures across Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, and Windows operating systems. With the release of Telegraf v1.21.2, InfluxData is excited to...

Plugin Spotlight: Exec & Execd

Telegraf comes included with over 200+ input plugins that collect metrics and events from a comprehensive list of sources. While these plugins cover a large number of use cases, Telegraf provides another mechanism to give users the power to meet nearly...

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