Metrics
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...
Instrumenting Your Node/Express Application: Viewing Your Data
This post is the follow-up to Instrumenting Your Node/Express Application. Here we will begin to explore some of the data that is being stored in InfluxDB and build out a dashboard in Chronograf. If you haven’t had a chance yet to...
Instrumenting Your Node/Express Application
This post will walk through the steps to instrument a sample nodeJS/Express application, collecting our metrics with Telegraf, and storing them with InfluxDB. A subsequent post will cover the exploration of our data and building out a dashboard with Chronograf. Why...