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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...
Introducing Flux Editor in Chronograf
Fastest time to awesomethis is the internal mantra that we repeat to ourselves at InfluxData to make sure that the products and features we’re building help developers harness the full power of their metrics and events data in as little time...
"Metrics First" Approach to Log Analysis
We just completed an annual survey of our community members along with our InfluxDB Enterprise and InfluxDB Cloud customers. For those of you who participated in the survey, thank you for taking the time to submit your responses. We hope you...
Faster Time To Awesome Linux Edition
You might remember that a while back, I did a little video on how quickly and easily you could install the entire InfluxData TICK Stack on Linux. The total time was just over 5 minutes. I always thought there was an...
What the IoT Needs is a Data Layer
When people talk about the IoT market, it is almost always in terms of the number of devices that are, or will be, connected to the internet. 20 Billion devices by 2020, <insert billions> of devices by 2025. That’s a fun...
Getting Started with Python and InfluxDB
This post is considered outdated - please follow the updated version of this blog post If you’re looking to monitor your infrastructure or third-party applications, then Telegraf’s built-in plugins are a great option, whether you’re looking at system resources like disk...
Intelligent Monitoring: Automating Dashboard Annotations in Chronograf
In its latest release, we announced that Chronograf added support for annotating dashboard cells with interesting time-events. This is useful for noting when certain events have occurred; i.e., abnormally high resource utilization, when changes were made to infrastructure, autoscaling events, etc....
InfluxData is Building a Fast Implementation of Apache Arrow in Go Using c2goasm and SIMD
InfluxData is pleased to announce our contribution to the Apache Arrow project. Essentially, we are contributing work that we already started: the development of a Go implementation of Apache Arrow. We believe in open source and are committed to participating in and contributing...
New Features in InfluxDB Open Source Backup and Restore
New in version 1.5, the open source backup utility provides the option to run both backup and restore functions on a live database. It also provides features to backup and restore single or multiple databases, along with optional filtering based on...
Logging Improvements for InfluxDB 1.5.0
When it comes to troubleshooting issues, log files are a high-valued asset. If things go wrong, you’ll almost always be asked to “send the logs”. InfluxDB 1.5 comes with a number of improvements to logging in an effort to simplify the...