Community
Introducing Our New InfluxData Community Slack Workspace
We’re thrilled to announce that, starting today, we have a public Influx Community Slack workspace to continue our commitment to building both great open source projects and a strong community. With the new Slack workspace comes yet another opportunity for our...
How to Write Points from CSV to InfluxDB
This blog has been updated since the time of writing. For the up-to-date version of this post, see this newer version. Telegraf is InfluxData’s plugin-driven server agent for collecting and reporting metrics. There are over 200 input plugins, which means there’s...
Why You Want Easy-to-Setup Grafana Dashboards
The list of reasons to adopt Grafana dashboards is long. Among other things, Grafana dashboards are excellent tools for gaining insight into time-series data. In addition, Grafana readily integrates with InfluxDB and Telegraf to make monitoring of sensor, system and network...
Publishing Data to InfluxDB from Swift
I’ve been a very busy man. It was only a few days ago that I wrote about a new InfluxDB library for writing data from Arduino devices to InfluxDB v2 and here I am again, writing about a new library for writing...
Writing Data from Arduino to InfluxDB v2
As InfluxData moves ever closer to releasing v2.0, it’s becoming increasingly important to be able to get data into InfluxDBv2, of course. Makes sense, right? Since the vast majority (like, indistinguishable from 100%) of my data comes from IoT devices, I decided...
Practical Uses of Cross-Measurement Math in Flux
I’ve been spending a lot of time lately with the 2.0 Alpha releases and I’m here to tell you: some of the new things coming are really, really cool! Especially for IoT. The one I’ve been using lately has been the...
How to Use InfluxDB's Holt-Winters Function for Predictions
Welcome to Part Three of this three-part blog post series. To understand Part Three, I suggest reading Part One and Two first. In Part One, we covered: When to use Holt-Winters How Single Exponential Smoothing works A conceptual overview of optimization for...
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...