Using InfluxDB as an IoT Edge Historian
InfluxDB is increasingly being used in IoT solutions to store data from connected devices. Now it can also be used on IoT edge gateways as a data historian to analyze, visualize and eventually transmit aggregated IoT data up to a centralized...
How to Pivot Your Data in Flux: Working with Columnar Data
Relational databases are by far the most common type of database, and as software developers it’s safe to say that they are the kind of database most of us got started on, and probably still use on a regular basis. And...
Flux Aggregation in InfluxDB: Now or Later
Aggregations are a powerful tool when processing large amounts of time series data. In fact, most of the time you’re going to care more about the min, max, mean, count or last values of your dataset than you will about the raw...
InfluxData Community Awards
We at InfluxData are pleased to announce that we’re once again going to be giving out Community Awards to those who have made significant contributions to our products or community over the past year. If somebody has helped you answer a...
InfluxDB Latest Tag Updated in Docker Hub
The latest InfluxDB OSS (version 2.0.4) has officially been released on Docker Hub! While this will allow a smooth upgrade path for both new and existing users of InfluxDB, we found out that some users were being unexpectedly upgraded to the...
Save the Date: InfluxDays Virtual Experience is Coming Back November 10-11, 2020
2020 has been one crazy year! Like so many tech communities, we had planned for an exciting year filled with travel, conferences, and talking to people in person only to have all of those plans upended by the COVID-19 pandemic. InfluxData...
Become an InfluxDB Inventor
As InfluxDB continues to grow and improve, more and more developers are using it as the platform of choice for their own solutions. Most of these solutions range from filling niche internal needs to solving common problems faced by entire industries,...
Introducing Community InfluxDB Templates
With InfluxDB 2.0 we added the ability to export a configuration of your entire stack, and import it again into another instance of InfluxDB. This includes your InfluxDB buckets, dashboards, queries, alerts and even Telegraf configurations. Since many people have the...