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"Metrics First" Approach to Log Analysis
We just completed an annual survey of our community members along with our InfluxDB Enterprise and InfluxDB Cloud customers. For those of you who participated in the survey, thank you for taking the time to submit your responses. We hope you...
Release Announcement: Telegraf 1.6.4
A maintenance release for Telegraf is now available: Telegraf 1.6.4 release notes. This maintenance release includes updates for the following plugins: Aerospike Input Reverted to the previous version of the Aerospike library due to a memory leak Cloudwatch Output Added support for...
Simplifying InfluxDB: Shards and Retention Policies
I recently did a webinar on an Introduction to InfluxDB and Telegraf and in preparing for it, I came to the woeful realization that there are still a number of concepts about InfluxDB which remain quite mysterious to me. Now, if...
Schema Queries in Flux (formerly IFQL)
InfluxQL facilitates schema exploration via a number of meta queries, which include SHOW MEASUREMENTS, SHOW TAG KEYS, SHOW TAG VALUES and SHOW FIELD KEYS. Flux (formerly IFQL) has united these concepts, such that schema is made up of tags keys and values. This unification provides greater...
Eventual Consistency: The Hinted Handoff Queue
In this blog series, we’re going to explore eventual consistency, a term that can be hard to define without having all the right vocabulary. This is the consistency model used by many distributed systems, including InfluxDB Enterprise edition. There are two...
Will Kubernetes Collapse Under the Weight of Its Complexity?
Thoughts About the Importance of Serving Application Developers A few weeks ago, I attended and spoke at KubeCon EU. It was a massive event attended by around 4,700 people. I was reminded of the OpenStack summit in Paris in November 2014....
Chronograf 1.5 and Kapacitor 1.5 Released
Chronograf started out a year and a half ago with one goal: be the user interface for the TICK Stack. Our goal hasn’t changed, but the way our users are leveraging our stack for metrics and events is evolving, and that...
Release Announcement: Chronograf 1.5 and Kapacitor 1.5
A new feature-bearing release for Chronograf is now available: Chronograf 1.5.0 release notes. Key feature highlights from the release include: Users can now visualize tabular data using the table graph type in dashboards Added support for latest Kapacitor alert endpoints for Kafka,...
Release Announcement: Telegraf 1.6.3
A maintenance release for Telegraf is now available: Telegraf 1.6.3 release notes. This maintenance release includes updates for the following plugins: Aerospike Input Updated to the latest aerospike-client-go package which resolves intermittent panics. Apache Input Fixes a potential wait group deadlock when the...
InfluxDays London 2018: Steve Moreton Speaking!
Less than a month away, and we are starting to get pretty excited about InfluxDays London! One great reason is that you will get the chance to see Steve Moreton, Senior Technical Director at CJC, in person. I had the privilege...