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The Open Source Business Model is Under Siege
A few weeks ago I gave the Day 2 opening keynote at PerconaLive, a conference focused on Open Source Databases. My talk, titled “The Open Source Business Model is Under Siege,” is about the existential threat that Open Source Database companies,...
Prometheus + InfluxDB: Thoughts After the Austin Monitoring Meetup
At The Austin Monitoring Meetup last night it was great to see how Prometheus and InfluxDB can be used together. I’ll highlight some of the details from my talk, but first I’d like to point to some work that Julius Volz, one...
InfluxData and Docker
Getting ready for the 2017 DockerCon this past week has had me thinking about all of the different ways we use Docker at InfluxData. From our official images, backing InfluxDB Cloud, and in our everyday development work. Furthermore, we share a commitment...
Denver DevOps Days
We had a great DevOps Days in Denver! The venue had an excellent cloud theme, an energetic crowd, and a hard-working group of organizers, making for a smooth and fun conference. This DevOps Days continued the tradition of excellent talks and...
Beer, BBQ, Raspberry Pi, and Time Series
With the weekend approaching it is always amazing to see what people do with technology. For many of us, sitting around having a Beer with some great BBQ is the picture of happiness. But what do you do if you are...
Announcing the InfluxData Sandbox
Today I’m happy to announce the InfluxData sandbox. The sandbox runs the entire suite of InfluxData products for use as a learning tool. With all of our previous full stack tutorials, such as this one for Kapacitor, you need to install each of...
Path to 1 Billion Time Series: InfluxDB High Cardinality Indexing Ready for Testing
One of the long-standing requests we’ve had for InfluxDB is to support a large number of time series. That is, a very high cardinality in the number of unique time series that the database stores. While we currently have customers with...
InfluxDB and the /debug/vars Endpoint
Like many Go programs with an HTTP server, InfluxDB exposes some diagnostic information over the /debug/vars endpoint. Because the information we expose there is simply JSON, it should be very straightforward to expose InfluxDB’s diagnostics to other custom utilities that you might...
tick-charts Update
This is an update to an earlier blog post I did on tick-charts, the project to make the InfluxData stack as easy to run on Kubernetes as possible. While developing the project I’ve learned that some of the original implementation decisions...
Kubernetes Metrics Addition - A Shoutout to our contributors!
Hopefully you have already read Nathan’s blog on the exciting news about the new version of Telegraf and Kapacitor. We are especially proud of the added Kubernetes metrics that can now be collected and acted upon. As an open source platform,...