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How LineMetrics Uses InfluxDB to Launch Its IoT Monitoring Platform
“What would it be like to have an asset monitoring solution that can be installed within minutes and is independent of all existing IT systems, without endangering existing processes?” LineMetrics was founded in 2012 in Haag, Austria, in response to questions...
Monitoring a Pulse Oximeter with InfluxDB – A Parent's Perspective
This article was contributed by Michael Hinkle, Probe Engineering and Manufacturing Supervisor at Texas Instruments. My name is Mike Hinkle, and I use InfluxDB to monitor my daughter’s pulse oximeter and to better understand her overall health. Through my career as...
Writing Tasks and Setting Up Alerts for InfluxDB Cloud
If you are using InfluxDB to monitor your data and systems, then alerts may be an essential part of your workflow. We currently have a system for monitoring your data whether it enters a critical or non-critical state. Here I’m going...
Announcing Lineup for InfluxDays 2020 Virtual Edition
<figcaption> Don’t miss the Opening Keynote by InfluxData Founder and CTO Paul Dix.</figcaption> The first-ever virtual InfluxDays is coming up fast, with two days of talks scheduled for June 23rd & 24th. We hope you can join us for the opportunity...
Datadog vs. InfluxDB
If you’re responsible for monitoring, chances are you’ve heard of Datadog. Like InfluxDB, Datadog is a monitoring platform for cloud applications, bringing together data from containers, servers, databases and third-party services. InfluxData and Datadog approach monitoring from different starting points. InfluxDB...
May the 4th Be With You!
This post was written by InfluxAce Nikki Cornell A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away the phrase “May the Force be with you” originated to wish those good luck before parting ways, oftentimes before a journey or battle....
InfluxDB Templates: Easily Share Your Monitoring Expertise
If you’re the resident expert in your company on a particular technology, you probably get asked a lot of questions about it: how to set it up, how to maintain it, how to monitor it. While it’s great to be recognized...
So How Are Developers Feeling During the COVID Health Crisis? We Decided to Ask
As a developer-focused company, InfluxData is always interested in how the community is doing. During the first two weeks of April, we conducted an online survey to find out how developers are handling life and work during the COVID-19 pandemic. A...
InfluxDays Goes Virtual - Registration is Open
InfluxData, the industry leader in time series databases, is proud to announce a first: a virtual InfluxDays Conference that is 100% free for attendees. InfluxDays is the industry’s only event dedicated entirely to time series data, and registration for the online...
Apache Arrow, Parquet, Flight and Their Ecosystem are a Game Changer for OLAP
Apache Arrow, a specification for an in-memory columnar data format, and associated projects: Parquet for compressed on-disk data, Flight for highly efficient RPC, and other projects for in-memory query processing will likely shape the future of OLAP and data warehousing systems....