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What is the Difference between Metrics and Events?
We gather all types of data from our systems when we adopt monitoring technologies and tools. We might, for example, want to see application metrics, database logs and network traffic side-by-side. We don’t always talk about the differences in these types...
InfluxDays New York
This week is InfluxDays New York 2019, and we’re bringing some of the best voices in the time series world to one stage. I’m looking forward to my first InfluxDays and to meeting folks from the community and InfluxData team. But...
Finding More Hidden Gems in Holt-Winters
Welcome back to this three-part blog post series on Holt-Winters and why it’s still highly relevant today. To understand Part Two, I suggest reading Part One, in which we covered: When to use Holt-Winters; How Single Exponential Smoothing works; A conceptual overview...
One Click to Awesome: Deploying with the DigitalOcean Marketplace
We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve worked with DigitalOcean to bring the TICK Stack to their new Marketplace, providing all DigitalOcean users with a one-click TICK Stack. Getting started We’re going to assume you already have a DigitalOcean account. If you...
Speakers and Agenda Finalized for InfluxDays NYC 2019
InfluxDays NYC 2019 the world’s most comprehensive technical conference focused on time series data is coming to New York on March 13-14, and we’ve just announced the final lineup of speakers. The event will feature keynotes and discussions with IT leaders...
When You Want Holt-Winters Instead of Machine Learning
Machine Learning (ML) gets a lot of hype, but its classical predecessors are still immensely powerful, especially in the time-series space. Error, Trend, Seasonality Forecast (ETS), Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) and Holt-Winters are three classical methods that are not only...
InfluxDB: Reorganizing Data with the Pivot Function in Flux
If you’ve been following along with my Flux journey as I implement Flux queries with Rails and GraphQL, you’ll know that I’ve been using train data when implementing various functions in Flux. In order for the GraphQL gem in my Rails...
Using GraphQL with InfluxDB and Flux
In a previous post, we showed you how to make Flux queries in a Rails app. In this post, we’ll extend that knowledge to use GraphQL in a Rails app which leverages the power of Flux to query InfluxDB. This allows...
Why I Joined InfluxData - David McKay
Hi! My name is David McKay, and I just joined InfluxData as a Developer Advocate. <figcaption> David McKay</figcaption> Who Am I? I don’t want to bore you too much with the life-story, so I’ll keep this brief. If you wish to...
Flux Windowing and Aggregation
Today, we’re talking about queries. Specifically, we’re talking about Flux queries, the new language being developed at InfluxData. You can read about why we decided to write Flux and check out the technical preview of Flux. If you’re an InfluxDB user,...