Flux
Use Flux to Group, Shape, and Analyze Your Time Series Data
Flux is a programming language designed from the ground up for time series analysis. Traditionally, grouping, shaping, and performing mathematical operations across large dynamic time series datasets is cumbersome. Flux’s goal is to make it working with these datasets much more...
Multi-Data Source Flux Introduced in InfluxDB 2 Alpha 14
As our co-founder Paul wrote extensively in InfluxDB 2.0’s Alpha Release announcement, we believe Flux will play an important role in combining time series data with many different data sources. Flux’s first official multi-data store step is InfluxDB 2.0 Alpha 14’s...
Announcing InfluxDB Cloud 2.0 Beta Free Tier
I’m excited to announce that today we’re launching the open beta of our InfluxDB 2.0 Cloud offering. This cloud release contains everything released in the open source alpha 9 of InfluxDB 2.0, but in a fully managed and hosted product. While...
Getting Started with InfluxDB 2.0: Scraping Metrics, Running Telegraf, Querying Data, and Writing Data
Now that we’ve released InfluxDB 2.0 Alpha, you’re probably curious to try it but might not know where to start. This post will guide you through the process of getting it running locally on your machine. By the end of this...
Practical Uses of Cross-Measurement Math in Flux
I’ve been spending a lot of time lately with the 2.0 Alpha releases and I’m here to tell you: some of the new things coming are really, really cool! Especially for IoT. The one I’ve been using lately has been the...
InfluxDB: Reorganizing Data with the Pivot Function in Flux
If you’ve been following along with my Flux journey as I implement Flux queries with Rails and GraphQL, you’ll know that I’ve been using train data when implementing various functions in Flux. In order for the GraphQL gem in my Rails...
InfluxDB 2.0 Alpha Release and the Road Ahead
Today we’re releasing the first alpha build of InfluxDB 2.0. Our vision for 2.0 is to collapse the TICK Stack into one cohesive and consistent whole which combines the time series database, the UI and dashboarding tool, and the background processing...
Using GraphQL with InfluxDB and Flux
In a previous post, we showed you how to make Flux queries in a Rails app. In this post, we’ll extend that knowledge to use GraphQL in a Rails app which leverages the power of Flux to query InfluxDB. This allows...
Flux Windowing and Aggregation
Today, we’re talking about queries. Specifically, we’re talking about Flux queries, the new language being developed at InfluxData. You can read about why we decided to write Flux and check out the technical preview of Flux. If you’re an InfluxDB user,...
Getting Started with Flux
Recently we concluded a series of six ‘office-hour’ webinars on Flux, InfluxData’s new functional data scripting language designed for querying, analyzing, and interacting with data. The goal was to answer any Flux-related questions and also get community feedback to improve the...