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Writing Data from Arduino to InfluxDB v2
As InfluxData moves ever closer to releasing v2.0, it’s becoming increasingly important to be able to get data into InfluxDBv2, of course. Makes sense, right? Since the vast majority (like, indistinguishable from 100%) of my data comes from IoT devices, I decided...
Practical Uses of Cross-Measurement Math in Flux
I’ve been spending a lot of time lately with the 2.0 Alpha releases and I’m here to tell you: some of the new things coming are really, really cool! Especially for IoT. The one I’ve been using lately has been the...
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...
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...
AWS Intends for Their New Project to be an Elasticsearch Fork
Yesterday Amazon (AWS) unveiled Open Distro for Elasticsearch in a blog post along with its own companion site. In another blog post titled Keeping Open Source Open they make an argument for the motivation behind the project and the desire to...
InfluxDays New York
This week is InfluxDays New York 2019, and we’re bringing some of the best voices in the time series world to one stage. I’m looking forward to my first InfluxDays and to meeting folks from the community and InfluxData team. But...
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...
One Click to Awesome: Deploying with the DigitalOcean Marketplace
We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve worked with DigitalOcean to bring the TICK Stack to their new Marketplace, providing all DigitalOcean users with a one-click TICK Stack. Getting started We’re going to assume you already have a DigitalOcean account. If you...
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...
InfluxDB: Reorganizing Data with the Pivot Function in Flux
If you’ve been following along with my Flux journey as I implement Flux queries with Rails and GraphQL, you’ll know that I’ve been using train data when implementing various functions in Flux. In order for the GraphQL gem in my Rails...