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Influx/Days 2017 Speaker: Jared Lander
Football season is upon us, and we thought, why not invite a speaker who knows something about football and data? So, we are pleased to introduce to you one of our new speakers, Jared P. Lander who was featured in the Wall...
Announcing Grade: A Tool to Track Your Go Benchmarks in InfluxDB
Have you written Go benchmarks? How often do you run them? Many Go developers will write and run a benchmark when working on critical code,and then maybe run the benchmark again when modifying that area of the code, to decide whether...
Influx/Days 2017 Speaker: Christine Yen
We have some great speakers for Influx/Days, and we are thrilled to let you know that Christine Yen is one of them! She is currently the CTO and Co-founder of Honeycomb, a startup that isn’t about to give you yet another...
Backup/Restore of InfluxDB from/to Docker Containers
One of the more exciting developments over the last few years is the emergence of containers, which allows software to be deployed in a securely isolated environment packaged with all its dependencies and libraries. Docker has emerged as one of the...
Thank you to our Sponsor, AWS!
The agenda is coming together for Influx/Days 2017, and we want to make sure that you know about all the fun stuff that goes along with the great talks. Our CTO and Co-founder, Paul Dix, has reminded us several times that...
InfluxData Docker on ARM
In the beginning, Docker only supported amd64 and only ran on Linux. Later, Docker started supporting different architectures like Windows 64-bit and ARM. You could run Docker on these platforms, but the image support has been a work in progress. For...
InfluxDays is really happening and Grafana will be joining us!
It is hard to believe that our inaugural conference, Influx/Days is really happening this year! We are beyond excited, especially to announce that Grafana will not only be a key sponsor for this event, but will be speaking at the event...
The InfluxData Blog Challenge
At the end of my first week here, fellow twitter user Michael Greene posted the following tweet: I couldn’t resist the opportunity, so I added some incentive and offered to send him some swag if he completed the challenge. He got...
Mineflux: Building a Telegraf Plugin to Collect Data from Your Minecraft Server
Written by Ayrdrie Palmer & Adam Perlin Translated into Japanese by Atsushi Fujiwara Overview Our first week at InfluxData was spent learning InfluxDB, the database behind InfluxData. We were told how simple the other components were to use so we decided...
Telegraf Update - 1.3 and How to Write Plugins
We recently released the 1.3 version of Telegraf. Have a python script that grabs some custom metrics? Use the exec plugin. Have some logfiles that contain metrics? Use the logparser plugin. Need to measure API response time? The ping plugin has...