Community
How to Consolidate OSS Data into a Cloud Account
In this post, we will describe a simple way to share data from multiple InfluxDB 2.0 OSS instances with a central cloud account. This is something that community members have asked for when they have OSS running at different locations, but...
InfluxDB OSS and Enterprise Roadmap Update from InfluxDays EMEA
InfluxDB OSS 2.x Since the initial release of InfluxDB OSS 2.0 in November 2020, more than 10% of the community has successfully upgraded, and the pace of the upgrades continues at a steady rate. We have released a number of maintenance...
Three Ways to Keep Cardinality Under Control When Using Telegraf
This article will show how we kept cardinality under control with a few tweaks in the Telegraf configuration. If you’re not yet familiar with it, Telegraf is the native and open-source plugin-driver metrics collection agent of InfluxDB. As you may know,...
Customer Highlight: How Index Exchange is Modernizing Its DevOps Practices Using the InfluxDB Platform
One of the best things about working at InfluxData is getting to know the worldwide InfluxDB community. It’s always fun getting to meet new users through our Community Slack, social media, team members and virtual/in-person events. I recently met David Ko,...
Elixir SDK for ConfigCat
This is a re-post of the article originally published in The New Stack on May 3, 2021. One of the great things about SaaS applications is that users in the platform automatically have access to any available software updates. Yet, having a...
Deploying Services with Docker, NGINX, Route 53 & Let's Encrypt
This article was written by Jeremy White and originally published on April 13, 2021 on the Network to Code blog. Docker is a power tool for deploying applications or services, and there are numerous Docker orchestration tools available that can help...
How to Parse Your XML Data with Telegraf
In March, we released Telegraf 1.18, which included a wide range of new input and output plugins. One exciting new addition was an XML Parser Plugin that added support for another input data format to parse into InfluxDB metrics. What is...
TL;DR InfluxDB Tech Tips: Configuring a Slack Notification with InfluxDB
With InfluxDB you can create notifications to make the most out of your alerts. Notifications enable you to send check statuses to the endpoint of your choice. In this TL;DR we set up a Slack Notification Rule and Endpoint through the...
How to Control Crowds with Python, OpenCV and InfluxDB
As I mentioned a while ago, I am learning to develop in Python; it seems that it is a super easy language to interpret, and so far, I have not found a “no” when trying to do things with it. I...
Out-of-this-world monitoring with InfluxDB and React
Reprinted with permission. © IDG Communications, Inc., 2021. https://www.infoworld.com/article/3609389/out-of-this-world-monitoring-with-influxdb-and-react.html During an InfluxData internal hackathon, I was looking to work on a project that would help me strengthen my Telegraf and Flux skills. I also wanted to use InfluxData’s Giraffe to visualize my project in a React application. After reading Sean...