Databases
Simplifying InfluxDB: Retention Policy Best Practices
Retention policies can often be tricky even at the best of times but when you’re dealing with time series data, setting up the appropriate retention policy to automatically expire (delete) unnecessary data can save you loads of time in the long...
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...