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Sam Dillard

Sam Dillard is a Senior Product Manager, Edge at InfluxData. He is passionate about making customers successful with their solutions as well as continuously updating his technical skills. Sam has a BS in Economics from Santa Clara University.

InfluxDB OSS Gains Improved User Model, Lots of Flux Enhancements, and Big CLI Additions

Release Announcement: InfluxDB OSS 2.4 InfluxDB OSS 2.4 – Release Notes This version of InfluxDB comes with Flux additions and a couple of enhancements to the API that support features of the CLI. The CLI received the most work this time...

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Aug 18, 2022

Influx CLI Introduces Invokable Scripts, Auth Enhancements, and RE-INTRODUCES the InfluxQL Shell!

Release Announcement: Influx CLI 2.4 Influx CLI 2.4 – Release notes The InfluxDB CLI is a standalone open source binary that works with both OSS and InfluxDB Cloud. On rare occasions some updates may apply to one or the other. In...

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Aug 18, 2022

Edge Data Replication is GA and Flux performance improvements are now available with InfluxDB OSS 2.3

Check out the GA of Edge Data Replication and Flux improvements here. We’ve been busy bringing the latest improvements to this release. Some of these have been available within InfluxDB Cloud, and now we are pleased to offer them within the...

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Jun 22, 2022

Announcing InfluxDB Edge Data Replication: Combining the Power of the Cloud with the Precision of the Edge

There are technical and business reasons to have a time series data presence both at the edge and in the cloud – InfluxDB has always played a key role in both contexts. Today, we’re announcing Edge Data Replication, a new feature...

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Jun 15, 2022

InfluxDB Enterprise 1.9.7 released with enhancements to Flux, Passive Nodes, and Cluster Stability

InfluxDB Enterprise 1.9.7 — Release notes Key highlights for this InfluxDB Enterprise release – available here – include: Enhancements Expose passive nodes to influxd-ctl command. Passive nodes allow for increased horizontal scaling in the write path. Throttle replication of incoming writes and...

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May 26, 2022

Release Announcement: InfluxDB OSS 2.2.0

OSS data remote replication, security enhancements, and improvements in Flux available now. We’ve been busy bringing the latest improvements to this release. Some of these have been available within InfluxDB Cloud, and now we are pleased to offer them within the...

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Apr 07, 2022

Usability improvements in the new release of Chronograf

Chronograf 1.9.4 – Release Notes This latest release of Chronograf includes the following new improvements and fixes: Flux Chronograf 1.9.4 now includes a Flux Builder to support users who are new to Flux and want a more guided experience building up...

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Mar 29, 2022

Security improvements now available in Kapacitor 1.6.4

Kapacitor 1.6.4 – release notes Includes the following fixes and improvements: Security For those integrating Kapacitor with Kafka, we've added support for SASL-based security authentication. This is similar to the security provided by Telegraf for integrating with Kafka. We've deprecated additional...

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Mar 23, 2022

MQTT Topic and Payload Parsing with Telegraf

Buckle up, this one isn’t short…but I’m hoping it will be thoroughly informative! This post is about Telegraf as a consumer of MQTT messages in the context of writing them to InfluxDB. If you are interested in and unfamiliar with Telegraf,...

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Dec 20, 2021

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