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How to Use Starlark with Telegraf
Our Telegraf Starlark Processor Plugin is an exciting new processor in Telegraf 1.15 that gives you the flexibility of performing various operations in Telegraf using the Starlark language. What is Starlark, you ask? Starlark (formerly known as Skylark) is a language...
Community Highlight: How InfluxDB Enables IoT Monitoring of Gas Station Tanks
I recently spoke with Alex Skrivseth, the Operations Manager at The Shed App, and discovered how he’s using InfluxDB to monitor the current levels of gas and diesel at various gas stations. Simply by extracting IoT sensor data, he has been...
How Playtech Fixed Metrics Over-Collection with Observability
According to Forbes, 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created every day. Data volumes have grown exponentially in recent years due to the growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) and sensors. The majority of data collected has been collected in the...
Tracking the International Space Station Using InfluxDB
When I started my internship here at InfluxData, I was told that, in addition to my day-to-day work, I could start a personal side-project to work on throughout the summer – something that would help me get acquainted with the TICK...
InfluxDB Cloud Now on All Major Cloud Platforms: Azure, AWS and Google
Today, InfluxDB Cloud is generally available on Microsoft Azure. Now you have the freedom to run the leading time series database on whichever you prefer: Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud or AWS. If you’re a Microsoft Azure customer, InfluxDB Cloud provides you...
InfluxDB Endpoint Security State Template
Our team recently discovered an exposed endpoint without authentication enabled, though we know it had previously been required. The root cause was a missing configuration as a result of a recent upgrade a few weeks earlier, and was easy to fix...
How to Build Grafana Dashboards with InfluxDB, Flux, and InfluxQL
We’re excited about today’s release of Grafana 7.1, which extends Grafana’s built-in InfluxDB datasource to run queries in both the Flux language and InfluxQL. This means it’s super easy to connect Grafana to InfluxDB whether you use InfluxDB 1.8 or 2.0,...
TL;DR InfluxDB Tech Tips – How to Interpret an Annotated CSV
In this post we share how to interpret an Annotated CSV, the Flux query result format for InfluxDB. Q: What is an Annotated CSV? A: An Annotated CSV is the output format of a Flux query with InfluxDB 2.0. For example,...
TL;DR InfluxDB Tech Tips Add Temporary Data with Flux
In this post, we share a way to generate a table with Flux. Q: I want to perform a task that executes a join() but I don’t always have data for one of the input tables. How can I create an...
BIRCH for Anomaly Detection with InfluxDB
In this tutorial, we’ll use the BIRCH (balanced iterative reducing and clustering using hierarchies) algorithm from scikit-learn with the ADTK (Anomaly Detection Tool Kit) package to detect anomalous CPU behavior. We’ll use the InfluxDB 2.0 Python Client to query our data...