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Using the New Flux Usage API to Calculate Pricing for InfluxDB Cloud
InfluxDB Cloud offers a transparent usage-based pricing model that only charges users on the work performed, with no minimums or long-term commitments. This puts YOU in charge of what you spend. However, with four separate pricing vectors, it’s not always easy...
Visualize HAProxy Metrics with InfluxDB
This article was written by Jim O’Connell and originally published on the HAProxy blog on May 24, 2021. Re-posted with permission. HAProxy generates over a hundred metrics to give you a nearly real-time view of the state of your load balancers...
Meet the InfluxData Summer 2021 Interns
With the 2021 InfluxData internship program in full swing, we wanted to take a moment to introduce the wonderful people that are joining us for a summer of work and fun. Sara Ghodsi Sara joins us from North Carolina State University...
Plant Buddy Part 4: Using the UI
My colleague, Rick Spencer, has been working on an interesting IoT project, Plant Buddy. This project entailed soldering some sensors to an Arduino, and teaching that device how to communicate directly with InfluxDB Cloud so that he could monitor his plants....
TL;DR InfluxDB Tech Tips Optimizing Flux Performance in InfluxDB Cloud
So you’re using InfluxDB Cloud and you’re taking full advantage of Flux to create custom data processing tasks, checks, and notifications. However, you notice that some of your Flux scripts aren’t executing as quickly as you expect. In this post, we’ll...
Building an IoT App with InfluxDB Cloud, Python and Flask (Part 3)
Last year I started an IoT project, Plant Buddy. This project entailed soldering some sensors to an Arduino, and teaching that device how to communicate directly with InfluxDB Cloud so that I could monitor those plants. Now I am taking that...
TL;DR InfluxDB Tech Tips Using and Understanding the InfluxDB Cloud Usage Template
So you’re using InfluxDB Cloud, and you’re writing millions of metrics to your account. Whether you’re building an IoT application on top of InfluxDB or monitoring your production environment with InfluxDB, your time series operations are finally running smoothly. You want...
Prometheus Remote Write Support with InfluxDB 2.0
In InfluxDB 1.x, we provided support for the Prometheus remote write API. The release of InfluxDB 2.0 does not provide support for the same API. However, with the release of Telegraf 1.19, Telegraf now includes a Prometheus remote write parser that...
TL;DR InfluxDB Tech Tips: Parameterized Flux Queries with InfluxDB
If you’re familiar with InfluxDB v2 then you’re probably familiar with Flux already. Flux enables you to transform your data in any way you need and write custom tasks, checks, and notification rules. But what you might not know is that...
Announcement: InfluxDays North America 2021 Call for Papers is Open!
We’re pleased to announce that InfluxDays North America 2021 Virtual Experience will be held on October 26-27, 2021 and the call for papers is open! InfluxDays is an event focused on the impact of time series data. Attendees gain first-hand knowledge...