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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...
What Is Time Series Data and Why Should You Care?
Like many people, I have lived most of my life without ever hearing the phrase “time series.” It wasn’t until I was interviewing at a company that builds a Time Series Platform that I realized I need to Google it. I wish I...
Visualizing Your Time Series Data from InfluxDB with Rickshaw
Recently, we took a look at visualizing our time series data from InfluxDB using the graphing library plotly.js (see post here), which offers over 20 different charting types, and packages everything so neatly that it is simple and easy for users to...
How Ruby Brought Me to InfluxData
All new InfluxData team members write a “Why I Came to InfluxData” blog post. I was supposed to write it a month ago when I started, but there’s so much to learn here about the products and the amazing community that...
The Effect of Cardinality on Data Ingest — Part 1
In my role as a Sales Engineer here at InfluxData, I get to talk to a lot of clients about how they’re using InfluxDB and the rest of the TICK Stack. We have a large number of very large clients using...
How to Use Grafana with InfluxDB to Monitor Time Series Data
The “open platform for beautiful analytics and monitoring,” Grafana supports various backends that store time series data. One of those backends is InfluxDB. InfluxDB is a time series database built specifically for storing time series data, and Grafana is a visualization...