InfluxDB
How to Use InfluxDB's Holt-Winters Function for Predictions
Welcome to Part Three of this three-part blog post series. To understand Part Three, I suggest reading Part One and Two first. In Part One, we covered: When to use Holt-Winters How Single Exponential Smoothing works A conceptual overview of optimization for...
Release Announcement: InfluxDB 2.0.0 Alpha 6
NOTE FOR EXISTING ALPHA USERS: This release includes a change to the way we build predefined dashboards and introduces Templates. You will need to delete your existing data in order to use this feature. Please see the release notes for additional...
What is the Difference between Metrics and Events?
We gather all types of data from our systems when we adopt monitoring technologies and tools. We might, for example, want to see application metrics, database logs and network traffic side-by-side. We don’t always talk about the differences in these types...
Release Announcement: InfluxDB 2.0.0 Alpha 5
NOTE FOR EXISTING ALPHA USERS: This release includes a breaking change to the format that TSM and index data are stored on disk. Any existing local time series data will not be queryable once InfluxDB is upgraded to this release. Please...
Finding More Hidden Gems in Holt-Winters
Welcome back to this three-part blog post series on Holt-Winters and why it’s still highly relevant today. To understand Part Two, I suggest reading Part One, in which we covered: When to use Holt-Winters; How Single Exponential Smoothing works; A conceptual overview...
InfluxDB Available on New DigitalOcean Marketplace
Today we are announcing that InfluxDB is now available on DigitalOcean Marketplace, a new platform that connects developers with easy-to-use partner-built solutions to enable simple app development, deployment and scaling. The Marketplace features a focused ecosystem of pre-configured software and infrastructure...
Release Announcement: InfluxDB OSS & Enterprise 1.6.6
Maintenance releases for InfluxDB Enterprise and OSS are now available. Keep in mind that these are not the most current versions of InfluxDB. These maintenance releases are provided with the associated fixes to support community members and customers who do not...
Release Announcement: InfluxDB 2.0.0 Alpha 4
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...
When You Want Holt-Winters Instead of Machine Learning
Machine Learning (ML) gets a lot of hype, but its classical predecessors are still immensely powerful, especially in the time-series space. Error, Trend, Seasonality Forecast (ETS), Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) and Holt-Winters are three classical methods that are not only...
Release Announcement: InfluxDB 2.0.0 Alpha 3
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...