InfluxDB
InfluxData is Building a Fast Implementation of Apache Arrow in Go Using c2goasm and SIMD
InfluxData is pleased to announce our contribution to the Apache Arrow project. Essentially, we are contributing work that we already started: the development of a Go implementation of Apache Arrow. We believe in open source and are committed to participating in and contributing...
Optimizing Data Queries for Time Series Applications
Now that we understand what time series data is and why we want to store it in a Time Series Database, we’ve reached a new challenge. Like any application, we want to ensure our database queries are smart and performant, so...
Monitoring Kubernetes Architecture
There are two important points you need to think about when monitoring a Kubernetes architecture. One is about the underlying resources, the bare metal Kubernetes is running on. The second is related to every service, ingress, and pod that you deployed....
New Features in InfluxDB Open Source Backup and Restore
New in version 1.5, the open source backup utility provides the option to run both backup and restore functions on a live database. It also provides features to backup and restore single or multiple databases, along with optional filtering based on...
Instrumenting Your Node/Express Application: Viewing Your Data
This post is the follow-up to Instrumenting Your Node/Express Application. Here we will begin to explore some of the data that is being stored in InfluxDB and build out a dashboard in Chronograf. If you haven’t had a chance yet to...
Instrumenting Your Node/Express Application
This post will walk through the steps to instrument a sample nodeJS/Express application, collecting our metrics with Telegraf, and storing them with InfluxDB. A subsequent post will cover the exploration of our data and building out a dashboard with Chronograf. Why...
Release Announcement: InfluxDB 1.5.0 and InfluxDB Enterprise 1.5.0
New feature bearing releases for InfluxDB and InfluxDB Enterprise are now available: InfluxDB 1.5.0 -- release notes InfluxDB Enterprise 1.5.0 -- release notes Key highlights for the release include: General Availability of the Time Series Index (TSI) - this feature allows for...
Logging Improvements for InfluxDB 1.5.0
When it comes to troubleshooting issues, log files are a high-valued asset. If things go wrong, you’ll almost always be asked to “send the logs”. InfluxDB 1.5 comes with a number of improvements to logging in an effort to simplify the...
Why Should I Use a Time Series Database?
Time series data is special — not just in the unique data that it captures, but also in the ways we interact with that data. Maybe you’re starting to use time series data from sensors in your company’s thermostats (to finally prove...
Announcing Flux (formerly IFQL) v0.0.5 with 12+ New Functions
This release represents a big leap forward for Flux. In the first part of the release cycle, we focused on formalizing the way query operations are chained within Flux. Once that was complete we tried it out, and quickly found that...