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Build or Buy? Developer Productivity vs. Flexibility
This article was originally published in The New Stack. A common debate in software development focuses on whether to use already-available tools or services, which offer better developer productivity, or stick with lower-level tools or custom-built solutions, which offer more control...
Telegraf Best Practices: SNMP Plugin
Telegraf has now reached 300+ plugins and is deployed in a wide variety of use cases. In January we released a blog post covering the golden rules for creating configs and optimizing your Telegraf agent. It’s now about time we got...
Become a Telegraf Pro with a New Course from InfluxDB University
Telegraf, InfluxData’s open source data collection agent, is a key tool for managing data pipelines. Users around the world rely on Telegraf’s flexibility to collect, clean, transform, and send data. But even with Telegraf’s immense popularity, we continue to look for...
Monthly Product Update – New Developer Experience for InfluxDB Cloud
We love to write and ship code to help developers bring their ideas and projects to life. That’s why we’re constantly working on improving our product in sync with developer needs to ensure their happiness and accelerate time to awesome. This...
Herrenknecht AG Powers IIoT Platform and Edge Data Collection for Tunnel Boring Machines with InfluxDB
Herrenknecht AG is a technology leader in mechanized tunneling systems. Engineers at Herrenknecht set out to build an industrial internet of things (IIoT) platform that provided insight into live and historic data for all their tunnel boring machines (TBMs). These machines...
Create Bitcoin Buy and Sell Alerts with InfluxDB
This article was originally published in The New Stack. Given how volatile Bitcoin price is, an automated alerting system can be valuable for preserving our attention and sanity. We can pay attention to Bitcoin only when the price action is interesting....
Particle’s Fleet Health Feature, Powered by InfluxDB, Delivers Device-Specific Data for IoT Deployments
The Particle platform enables companies to manage and program their IoT devices, bringing them to market quicker. To accomplish this, Particle developers needed to be able to collect telemetry data from a large number of edge IoT devices to measure performance....
Prescient Devices Makes Managing IoT Edge Devices Easy with InfluxDB
Prescient Devices focuses on changing the way businesses think about and use edge data and industrial IoT. The company built Prescient Designer, an edge data solutions platform that gives organizations the boost they need to transform their IT/OT processes. Prescient’s products...
TL;DR InfluxDB Tech Tips: Optimizations to aggregateWindow()
If you’re an InfluxDB user you’ve almost certainly used the aggregateWindow() function. The aggregateWindow() function calculates an aggregated value by applying a mean, sum, or any other aggregate function to fixed windows of time. It’s most commonly used to downsample your...
InfluxDB and Elementary School Science Fairs
I’m a proud father of an incredibly smart, talented, kind, and just all-around great 9 year-old daughter. Since she first learned to talk, she has been a “questioner,” curious about the world around her and how everything connects (you know, the...