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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This post is considered outdated - please follow the updated version of this blog post If you’re looking to monitor your infrastructure or third-party applications, then Telegraf’s built-in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...
Why Should I Use a Time Series Database?
Time series data is special — not just in the unique data that it captures, but also in the ways we interact with that data. Maybe you’re starting to use time series data from sensors in your company’s thermostats (to finally prove...
Monitoring Application Performance on the Frontend in the Age of Impatience
Keep Your Users Happy and Monitor Your Performance Monitoring application performance in the browser is often overlooked or ignored until an actual problem arises. We prioritize server-side monitoring and collecting metrics on all our different databases, but often let tracking of...
Flux (formerly IFQL) and the Future of InfluxData
With the big news coming out today about our Series C financing, I thought I should take some time to talk about what the future of InfluxData platform and InfluxDB holds. For our CEO Evan Kaplan’s perspective see here. To understand...
Adventures in Building a Modern Time Series Platform
Today we announced that we secured $35m of additional capital in a Series C Financing led by Sapphire Ventures with participation from Harmony Ventures, and our existing Venture Partners Battery, Mayfield, and Trinity. It’s an honor to add Sapphire’s Anders Ranum...
Time to Awesome Linux Edition
A while back, I did a quick video showing how quickly you could get the TICK Stack up and running on your Mac. It’s since come to my attention that the entire world doesn’t run on Mac OS X. (Where’s that...