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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...
Become a Telegraf Pro with a New Course from InfluxDB University
Telegraf, InfluxData’s open source data collection agent, is a key tool for managing data pipelines. Users around the world rely on Telegraf’s flexibility to collect, clean, transform, and send data. But even with Telegraf’s immense popularity, we continue to look for...
Monthly Product Update – New Developer Experience for InfluxDB Cloud
We love to write and ship code to help developers bring their ideas and projects to life. That’s why we’re constantly working on improving our product in sync with developer needs to ensure their happiness and accelerate time to awesome. This...
Herrenknecht AG Powers IIoT Platform and Edge Data Collection for Tunnel Boring Machines with InfluxDB
Herrenknecht AG is a technology leader in mechanized tunneling systems. Engineers at Herrenknecht set out to build an industrial internet of things (IIoT) platform that provided insight into live and historic data for all their tunnel boring machines (TBMs). These machines...
Create Bitcoin Buy and Sell Alerts with InfluxDB
This article was originally published in The New Stack. Given how volatile Bitcoin price is, an automated alerting system can be valuable for preserving our attention and sanity. We can pay attention to Bitcoin only when the price action is interesting....