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TL;DR InfluxDB Tech Tips - Monitoring Tasks and Finding the Source of Runaway Cardinality
So you’re using InfluxDB Cloud, and you’re writing millions of metrics to your account. You’re also running a variety of downsampling and data transformation tasks. Whether you’re building an IoT application on top of InfluxDB or monitoring your production environment with...
Getting a Headstart with the Docker Monitoring Template
The growing popularity of Docker has led many enterprises to containerize applications. By 2022, more than 75% of global organizations will be running containerized applications in production, Gartner predicts, up from less than 30% today. Yet the shift to containers has...
Tracking CS:GO Stats with InfluxDB
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) – a multiplayer first-person shooter video game developed by Valve and Hidden Path Entertainment – is the fourth game in the now-legendary Counter-Strike series. Since its release, CS:GO has drawn in an estimated 11 million players per...
Release Announcement: InfluxDB OSS 2.0.2
A new maintenance release for InfluxDB OSS is available now. Thank you to all the community members who have downloaded and used this latest release. We’ve gotten a couple of important defects addressed here and made some other improvements based on...
Achieve Better Observability into AWS Services with the AWS CloudWatch Monitoring Template
Amazon CloudWatch – Amazon’s built-in infrastructure monitoring tool – monitors your Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources and the applications you run on AWS in real time. Here’s what you can do with this tool and how to access AWS CloudWatch monitoring...
3 ways InfluxDB OSS Complements InfluxDB Cloud
As you may know, InfluxDB is available in multiple forms, including InfluxDB Open Source and InfluxDB Cloud. Customers will sometimes ask us, “If I’m using InfluxDB Cloud, is there any reason I should also consider using InfluxDB open source?” It’s a...
Community Highlight: How to Build an InfluxDB Template
This article was written by InfluxAce Ignacio Van Droogenbroeck. Ignacio is a Technical Marketing Engineer based in Uruguay. He started a blog about ten years ago, and writes about IT Infrastructure, Cloud, Docker, Linux and Observability. For the last few months, I...
Air Quality Monitoring Made Easy with the InfluxDB Air Quality Monitoring Template
Air quality monitoring is important as poor air quality is responsible for an estimated 60,000 premature deaths in the United States each year, and annual costs from air pollution-related illness are estimated at $150 billion. Air quality monitoring can help track...
InfluxDB 2.0 Open Source is Generally Available
Today, we are proud to announce that InfluxDB Open Source 2.0 is now generally available for everyone. It’s been a long road, and we couldn’t have done it without the amazing support and contributions of our community. This marks a new...
Announcing InfluxDB IOx - The Future Core of InfluxDB Built with Rust and Arrow
On November 12, 2013, I gave the first public talk about InfluxDB titled: InfluxDB, an open source distributed time series database. In that talk I introduced InfluxDB and outlined what I meant when I talked about time series: specifically, it was...