InfluxDB
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...
Monitoring the Kubernetes Nginx Ingress with the Nginx InfluxDB Module
In the process of moving some of our container workloads to Kubernetes we deployed the ingress-nginx project to have an Ingress controller that can instrument Nginx for incoming traffic to exposed services. The project itself is pretty well crafted, and it...
Monitoring Application Performance on the Frontend in the Age of Impatience
Keep Your Users Happy and Monitor Your Performance Monitoring application performance in the browser is often overlooked or ignored until an actual problem arises. We prioritize server-side monitoring and collecting metrics on all our different databases, but often let tracking of...
Flux (formerly IFQL) and the Future of InfluxData
With the big news coming out today about our Series C financing, I thought I should take some time to talk about what the future of InfluxData platform and InfluxDB holds. For our CEO Evan Kaplan’s perspective see here. To understand...
Adventures in Building a Modern Time Series Platform
Today we announced that we secured $35m of additional capital in a Series C Financing led by Sapphire Ventures with participation from Harmony Ventures, and our existing Venture Partners Battery, Mayfield, and Trinity. It’s an honor to add Sapphire’s Anders Ranum...