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Deleting Production in a Few Easy Steps (and How to Fix It)
This article was originally published in The New Stack. It’s the type of nightmare that leaves developers in a cold sweat. Imagine waking up to a message from your team that simply says, “We lost a cluster,” but it’s not a...
Matplotlib Tutorial - Learn How to Visualize Time Series Data With Matplotlib and InfluxDB
This article was written by Armstrong Asenavi. Scroll down for author bio. A time series is a sequence of data points (observations) arranged chronologically and spaced equally in time. Some notable examples of time series data are stock prices, a record...
Come See Us at Data + AI Summit
At InfluxDB we’re getting ready to head to San Francisco for the Data + AI Summit from June 27-30. Our goal is to make the best platform for working with time series data and we’re excited to take part in the...
Getting Started with OpenTelemetry for Observability
This article was published in The New Stack. For most developers, software development means there is an API for almost everything, hardware is provisioned via the cloud and the core focus is on building only the features most crucial to your...
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...
Bboxx Taps Time Series Data to Light Up the Developing World
Using technology to help businesses thrive is always a thrill, but it doesn’t compare to the sense of accomplishment on both a personal and organizational level when you see your tech used to positively impact humanity. It’s one thing to function...
DEVCOM Uses InfluxDB to Connect the Field and the Lab
Handling network connection uncertainty The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) Army Research Laboratory (ARL) faces unique challenges in working with data to develop new technologies. It needs the ability to seamlessly analyze data both in the field and in...
How Companies Are Using InfluxDB and Kafka in Production
This article was originally published in The New Stack. Hulu, the entertainment streaming platform, needed a solution to scale up its internal application and infrastructure monitoring platform as it grew beyond 1 million metrics per second. The solution it created combines two open source tools...
Build or Buy? Developer Productivity vs. Flexibility
This article was originally published in The New Stack. A common debate in software development focuses on whether to use already-available tools or services, which offer better developer productivity, or stick with lower-level tools or custom-built solutions, which offer more control...
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...