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Event Monitoring Visibility Made Easy: Sensu Check Metric Extraction with InfluxDB and Grafana
Monitoring dynamic, distributed environments often results in costly monitoring solution choices for developers seeking scalability, but your monitoring solution doesn’t have to be expensive. Sensu, InfluxDB, and Grafana open source tools with enterprise counterparts can work together to create a complete,...
Telegraf Configuration in InfluxDB 2.0
Welcome to the time series world of tomorrow, InfluxData 2.0. We’re getting started with 2.0 by explaining the fundamentals. Today, we’re talking about what happens behind the scenes when you configure Telegraf as a data collector. Collecting data is the first...
Red Flags of High Cardinality in Databases
High cardinality describes databases with distinct values. For instance, if every line item had a unique ID number, description, email address, etc. A column with many repeated values would be described as having low cardinality. Not everyone calculates cardinality in the same...
Release Announcement: InfluxDB 1.7.8, Chronograf 1.7.14, Telegraf 1.11.5
New maintenance releases for InfluxDB OSS, Chronograf and Telegraf are available now. InfluxDB 1.7.8 release notes Chronograf 1.7.14 release notes Telegraf 1.11.5 release notes This maintenance release of InfluxDB OSS includes the following fixes: Removed stray fmt.Println which was spamming the log...
Writing Data to InfluxDB with Python
One of the questions we see fairly often from Python developers who are using InfluxDB is how to improve the write performance of programs which use the InfluxDB client library. Usually they’re trying to import or transfer large amounts of data...
Aquicore Seeks to Enhance Their Customers' Competitive Advantage by Improving LEED and ENERGY STAR Recognitions
Aquicore provides their commercial real estate (CRE) customers with a platform that allows them to track, analyze and predict building and energy data. Through their cloud-based solution, Aquicore’s clients have access to their IoT-driven smart asset platform. It’s easy to get...
The Algorithm That Ties Together Google Maps and InfluxData's Giraffe
One of the best parts about being a developer advocate is being able to share the developer’s work with the community. Working at InfluxData also means the code, projects or ideas that I blog about come from exceptional engineers who, like...
InfluxDB 2 Migration Path: Instrumentation
InfluxDB 2 and our SaaS offering, InfluxDB Cloud 2, are right around the corner. While we’re finalizing the last of our wonderful updates to give you the InfluxDB 2 experience you deserve, we’re going to talk to you about migration paths....
Release Announcement: InfluxDB 2.0.0 Alpha 17
A new release of InfluxDB 2.0 Alpha is available now. As described in our CTO Paul Dix’s original release announcement for InfluxDB 2.0, we will be shipping regular updates as we add new features and fix issues. Please keep in mind...
InfluxDB and Kafka: How InfluxData Uses Kafka in Production
Following CTO Paul Dix’s original release announcement for InfluxDB 2.0 and a new release of InfluxDB Cloud 2.0 to public beta, I thought the community would be interested in learning about how InfluxData provides a multi-tenanted, horizontally scalable time series storage....