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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...
OpenTracing: An Open Standard for Distributed Tracing
Logs help you understand what your application is doing. Most every application generates its own logs for the server that hosts it. But in a modern distributed system and in a microservices environment, logs are just not enough. We can use...
Go from Zero to Awesome in 5 Minutes or Less
We here at InfluxData have a thing about Time to Awesome. So much so that we Trademarked it. No, seriously, we did. And we mean it. So let’s go from Zero to Awesome! We are singularly focused on reducing the Time...
ThingMonk 2017: Insight and Learning on IoT
Back in September, I attended the ThingMonk Conference in London. Here is a brief overview of what I learned and some of the insight I gleaned from the conference. The ThingMonk 2017 videos are starting to drop if you want to...
InfluxData Docker on ARM
In the beginning, Docker only supported amd64 and only ran on Linux. Later, Docker started supporting different architectures like Windows 64-bit and ARM. You could run Docker on these platforms, but the image support has been a work in progress. For...
Introduction to InfluxData's InfluxDB and TICK Stack
InfluxData provides a Modern Time Series Platform, designed from the ground up to handle metrics and events. InfluxData’s products are based on an open source core. This open source core consists of the projects Telegraf, InfluxDB, Chronograf, and Kapacitorcollectively called the...