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InfluxDB 2 Migration Path: Instrumentation
InfluxDB 2 and our SaaS offering, InfluxDB Cloud 2, are right around the corner. While we’re finalizing the last of our wonderful updates to give you the InfluxDB 2 experience you deserve, we’re going to talk to you about migration paths....
InfluxDB and Kafka: How InfluxData Uses Kafka in Production
Following CTO Paul Dix’s original release announcement for InfluxDB 2.0 and a new release of InfluxDB Cloud 2.0 to public beta, I thought the community would be interested in learning about how InfluxData provides a multi-tenanted, horizontally scalable time series storage....
InfluxDB and Kafka: How Companies are Integrating the Two
As Kafka and time series databases gain popularity, it becomes increasingly valuable to understand how they are paired together to provide robust real-time data pipeline solutions. As the saying goes, the whole pipeline is greater than the sum of the Kafka...
InfluxDB vs. Splunk for Time Series Data, Metrics & Management
At InfluxData, one of the questions we regularly get asked by developers and architects alike is: “How does InfluxDB compare to Splunk for time series workloads?” This question might be prompted for a couple of reasons. First, if they’re starting a...
IT Monitoring in the Era of Containers: Tapping into eBPF Observability
Article by Daniella Pontes and Luca Deri Containers are a game-changer for everyone. An abstraction between the infrastructure and the application layers, containers are a group play and concern IT system engineers, Ops, NetOps and DevOps. However, professionals in different roles...
Running InfluxDB on AWS with Cloud Formation
Coding bootcamps are great. I learned a lot, and it enabled me to land a Developer Advocacy role. However, despite an extensive curriculum and excellent instructors, I still came out lacking a lot of basic knowledge. I took a Data Science...
Community Highlight: How Timbergrove Uses InfluxDB to Offer a Smart Workplace Kit
Timbergrove is an American-based creative technology studio and consulting firm. For over a decade, Timbergrove has been using hardware and software to solve business problems. Timbergrove has a unique culture compared to other workplaces. They use their status as an IBM...
Building a Data Stream for IoT with NiFi and InfluxDB
Apache NiFi has been a game changer in the world of IoT, allowing you to automate the transformation and flow of data from IoT, and any edge, sensor to just about anywhere you want. In addition to supporting mission-critical data volumes...
Why I Joined InfluxData - Thom Crowe
Hey there, I’m Thom Crowe, Community Manager here at InfluxData. I’m new to the team, and one thing new employees are asked to do is introduce themselves and share why they joined, so here goes. I started working in digital marketing...
Kicking Off InfluxDB Community Office Hours
This is a pretty exciting week at InfluxData. We’re descending on London for InfluxDays on Thursday and Friday (if you’re not in Europe, don’t worry, we are livestreaming and recording the sessions). While here in London, a group of us are...