InfluxDB
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....
InfluxDB and Kafka: How Companies are Integrating the Two
As Kafka and time series databases gain popularity, it becomes increasingly valuable to understand how they are paired together to provide robust real-time data pipeline solutions. As the saying goes, the whole pipeline is greater than the sum of the Kafka...
InfluxDB vs. Splunk for Time Series Data, Metrics & Management
At InfluxData, one of the questions we regularly get asked by developers and architects alike is: “How does InfluxDB compare to Splunk for time series workloads?” This question might be prompted for a couple of reasons. First, if they’re starting a...
Use Flux to Group, Shape, and Analyze Your Time Series Data
Flux is a programming language designed from the ground up for time series analysis. Traditionally, grouping, shaping, and performing mathematical operations across large dynamic time series datasets is cumbersome. Flux’s goal is to make it working with these datasets much more...
Release Announcement: InfluxDB 2.0.0 Alpha 16
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...
Multi-Data Source Flux Introduced in InfluxDB 2 Alpha 14
As our co-founder Paul wrote extensively in InfluxDB 2.0’s Alpha Release announcement, we believe Flux will play an important role in combining time series data with many different data sources. Flux’s first official multi-data store step is InfluxDB 2.0 Alpha 14’s...
Release Announcement: InfluxDB 2.0.0 Alpha 15
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...
Running InfluxDB on AWS with Cloud Formation
Coding bootcamps are great. I learned a lot, and it enabled me to land a Developer Advocacy role. However, despite an extensive curriculum and excellent instructors, I still came out lacking a lot of basic knowledge. I took a Data Science...
Using Time Series for Application Performance Monitoring to Win at the Flight E-ticket Sales Game
One of the best ways to demonstrate the value of application performance monitoring (APM) and its relation to time series data is through a real-world success story. Here we introduce the application performance monitoring solution used by Web Shop Fly, a...
Release Announcement: InfluxDB 1.7.7
A new maintenance releases for InfluxDB OSS is available now. InfluxDB 1.7.7 release notes This maintenance release of InfluxDB 1.7.7 includes the following fixes: Modify the sort order for aggregates so that they are sorted by tag and then time. Use...