InfluxData Blog - Shubhra Kar

Announcing InfluxDB v0.13 Plus Clustering Early Access

Shubhra Kar (InfluxData) — Thu, 12 May 2016 06:45:08 -0700

The team at InfluxData is excited to announce the immediate availability of InfluxDB v0.13 of the TICK stack!

What's the TICK stack? It's InfluxData's end-to-end platform for collecting, storing, visualizing and alerting on time-series data at scale. Learn more.

We are also pleased to announce early access to InfluxDB Enterprise. If you have been waiting for InfluxDB clustering to run on your infrastructure with the ability to rebalance nodes, plus a slick UI to deploy, manage and monitor the deployment, InfluxDB Enterprise is for you.

Like what you see? Contact us to request a demo, get early access plus pricing from one of our solutions architects.

InfluxDB v0.13

v0.13 is a significant InfluxDB release delivering robust features and stability to the single server experience. This is also our final major milestone before we launch 1.0. New in this release:

Upgrade to Go v1.6.2 delivering performance gains
Support for DELETE FROM
Time Zone Support - offset argument in the GROUP BY time(...) call

There’s a total of 27 new features and 32 bug fixes! Detailed release notes can be found here and downloads here.

Telegraf v0.13

New in this release:

New Input Plugin: "filestat" to gather metrics about file existence, size, etc.
HAProxy socket support
Support for Docker container IDs to track per container metrics

There’s a total of 17 new features and 21 bug fixes! Detailed release notes can be found here and downloads here.

Chronograf v0.13

New in this release:

Design update and performance improvements to the visualization index pages
"Visualization cards" have been replaced with more performant list items

Downloads are here.

Kapacitor v0.13

InfluxDB’s native data processing and alerting engine now supports BYOA (bring your own algorithm) analytics. UDFs written in languages of your choice running in Docker containers can be launched independent of Kapacitor by exposing a Unix socket. On startup Kapacitor will connect to the socket and begin communication, applying the UDF logic to the time series data being processed.

New in this release:

UDFs can be connected over a Unix socket. This enables UDFs from across Docker containers to be applied to the Influx data pipeline.
CLI features to ID, list and delete tasks, recordings and replays
API lock down to a stable 1.0 version

There’s a total of 18 new features and 8 bug fixes! Detailed release notes can be found here and and downloads here.

But wait, there's more...

FREE Technical Papers

Today we also launched a new “Technical Papers” landing page on influxdata.com where developers and architects can download long reads that dive deep into a variety of InfluxDB related topics. Right now we’ve got three papers posted:

Make sure to check back often as we’ll be uploading new papers every other week!

FREE Virtual Training Summer Schedule is Live!

We’ve just added eight sessions to the virtual training schedule. In addition, we’ll be debuting three new topics including:

Benchmarking InfluxDB and Elasticsearch for Time-Series Data Management
Migrating from InfluxDB 0.8 and Up to 0.13
Intro to Kapacitor for Alerting and Anomaly Detection

What's Next?

Download and get started with InfluxDB v0.13
Schedule a FREE 20 minute consultation with a Solutions Architect to review your InfluxDB project
Looking for InfluxDB Clustering on your infrastructure? Contact Sales to get a demo of InfluxDB Enterprise plus pricing information.

Announcing the Graphite/Whisper to InfluxDB Migration Utility (Beta)

Shubhra Kar (InfluxData) — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 07:40:56 -0700

Over the last few months we’ve been hearing from the community the desire for an easier way to migrate from Graphite/Whisper to InfluxDB. We heard it often enough that we set out to develop an interactive utility to make the process a little easier. So, by popular demand, we are excited to announce the immediate availability of the beta version of our open source Graphite/Whisper to InfluxDB migration utility. You can catch a short demo of the utility, plus ask technical questions about how it works by registering for this Thursday’s brief ”Get Started with the Graphite/Whisper to InfluxDB Migration Utility” webinar happening tomorrow at 9:30 AM Pacific.

About Graphite

Graphite was created over 10 years ago and managed to gain a lot of popularity amongst developers looking for an open source, time-series solution for their metrics data. One of its cool features that drove a bunch of adoption was its powerful query API. The backend data store of the typical Graphite project is a time-series database called Whisper. Whisper is a fixed size DB and works similar to RRD.

However, there are a few pain points with Graphite that are well known in the community. On the backend, scalability issues can appear very quickly when there’s a need to support a high volume of writes, a large number of unique metrics and having to manage very large data sets over extended periods of time.

So, why migrate?

There are several reasons why developers are telling us they are looking to make the switch…

Write Performance: Although I am not personally aware of any public benchmarks comparing InfluxDB 0.10.0 with Graphite, the latest release of InfluxDB in a stand-alone configuration can deliver hundreds of thousands of writes per second across up to 1 million unique series. Learn more here and here.
Data Compression: The latest release of InfluxDB is able to deliver compression down to around 2 to 5 bytes per point in some cases. Learn more here and see a real world example here. I haven't seen anything official from the Graphite project about compression, but this old StackOverflow thread puts it at a little over 12 bytes per point.
Community Momentum: Developers tell us all the time that although InfluxDB still has more work to do (especially on clustering), the velocity in which the project is improving vs Graphite (or even OpenTSDB) is a huge factor. It's easy enough to see what these folks mean by heading over to Github and comparing both the Whisper and Ceres projects against InfluxDB, whether you look at code frequency, number of committers, watchers, stars or forks.

The utility can migrate data in two modes, either using the InfluxDB HTTP API or natively with the TSMWriter (which should be faster, but will require a server reboot and only works on a single server.) Let’s do a simple migration…

Now let’s visualize our migrated data…

Because this utility is still in Beta, we are relying on the community to help us test against as many data sets as possible and hopefully uncover some edge cases we might have overlooked. Let us know what you think or if you have questions: contact@influxdata.com.

What's next?

Get the code on Github and log any issues you encounter.
Register for the short "Get Started with the Graphite/Whisper to InfluxDB Migration utility" webinar happening tomorrow (Feb 18) at 9:30 AM Pacific.
Get expert help with your Graphite to InfluxDB migration from the InfluxDB professional services team.
Level up your InfluxDB knowledge by registering for InfluxDB Virtual Training. Choose your topic & attend the webinar for just $39!