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Continuous Deployment of Telegraf Configurations
After I shared my “Using Telegraf as a Gateway” post with Rawkode, he mentioned a talk he gives, where he discusses advanced Telegraf topics, including a requirement he’s seen for automatically configuring running Telegraf instances just by editing config files in...
Using Flux to Get IoT Sensor Metadata from MySQL
If you’ve deployed an IoT solution, you’ve had to decide where, and how, to store all your data. At least from my perspective, the best and easiest place to store the sensor data is, of course, InfluxDB. My saying that can’t...
AWS Marketplace Billing Now Available for InfluxDB
Does your company use AWS Billing and Cost Management? Now you can put your InfluxDB charges straight onto your AWS bill. This applies to both InfluxDB Cloud and InfluxDB Enterprise on the AWS Marketplace. Why does AWS Marketplace Billing matter? You...
Aggregating by Months or Years in InfluxDB with Flux
Over a year ago, we made our first commit and commitment to supporting a much wanted and needed feature for Flux. It was a feature that we have wanted as far back as the 1.x versions of InfluxDB, but it was...
AWS re:invent 2019 See You There!
We’re looking forward to participating at AWS re:Invent 2019 in Las Vegas. Since it’s a huge show, I thought I’d put together this guide to AWS re:Invent 2019. So, let’s dive in! Where is InfluxData at re:Invent? Speaking of re:Invent sessions,...
Using Telegraf on Windows
Telegraf is an agent that runs on your operating system of choice, schedules gathering metrics and events from various sources and then sends them to one or more sinks, such as InfluxDB or Kafka. For InfluxDB, version 1.x, 2.0 as well...
Scaling Kubernetes Monitoring without Blind Spots or Operations Burden
This article was written by Daniella Pontes and Chris Goller. Kubernetes has seized center stage in the DevOps world when building and migrating applications to a cloud-native environment. In reality, Kubernetes is a means to an end to scale operations of...
Moving Towards AIOps with Real-Time Full Stack Visibility, Intelligent Alerting and Response Automation
InfluxData integration with PagerDuty takes you down the road of excellence managing your Kubernetes environments. There is no one single playbook for all types of incidents that is granted. Therefore, it is necessary to have the flexibility and adaptive learning about...
Monitoring AWS with Telegraf & InfluxDB Cloud
Recently I’ve been playing with InfluxDB Cloud and Telegraf for synthetic monitoring of Amazon Web Services API endpoints, and thought I’d share my configuration notes. What are InfluxDB and Telegraf? InfluxDB is an open-source time series database, and Telegraf is a software agent for sending time-series data to InfluxDB. Telegraf has hundreds of plugins to...
Google Cloud Next UK 2019 See You There!
We’re looking forward to participating at Google Cloud Next ‘19 UK, 20-21 November, at ExCeL London. What is Google Cloud Next UK? Google Cloud Next UK is an annual conference hosted by Google that brings together Google Cloud customers, developers, and...