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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...
Why You Can't Afford to Ignore Distributed Tracing for Observability
Observability is a hot topic, but not a lot of people know what it truly means. Everyone reads about monitoring vs. observability these days, and I have had the chance to experience what I think is the main concept behind this...
Using GraphQL with InfluxDB and Flux
In a previous post, we showed you how to make Flux queries in a Rails app. In this post, we’ll extend that knowledge to use GraphQL in a Rails app which leverages the power of Flux to query InfluxDB. This allows...
Why I Joined InfluxData - David McKay
Hi! My name is David McKay, and I just joined InfluxData as a Developer Advocate. <figcaption> David McKay</figcaption> Who Am I? I don’t want to bore you too much with the life-story, so I’ll keep this brief. If you wish to...
Flux Windowing and Aggregation
Today, we’re talking about queries. Specifically, we’re talking about Flux queries, the new language being developed at InfluxData. You can read about why we decided to write Flux and check out the technical preview of Flux. If you’re an InfluxDB user,...
InfluxDB Master Branch to Switch to 2.0 on Jan 11
This is a short update to the InfluxDB community to announce that the master branch of InfluxDB will be switched over to the alpha version of 2.0 on Friday, January 11th. While the final alpha release will have a migration path...
A UX Review of Flux Joins vs. Pandas Joins
InfluxData recently released the latest versions of Chronograf and InfluxDB. With them comes the technical preview of Flux. Flux is the new query language and engine for time series data. The documentation for Flux can be found here. In a previous...
InfluxDB: How to Do Joins, Math across Measurements
If you’re part of the InfluxData community, then you’ve probably wanted to perform math across measurements at some point. You did some googling and stumbled on this GitHub issue 3552 and shed a small tear. Well, today I get to be...
How Predefined Dashboards in InfluxData's Chronograf Make Metrics Simple
I talk about metrics a lot. Usually, I’m muttering about the importance of monitoring while I watch YouTube clips of cats not making jumps. Now, we’re going to talk about one way we can access those metrics easily. Just as I’m an animal...
Making Flux Queries in Rails
Now that we’ve launched Flux, a combination query and scripting language, you’re probably eager to start playing around with it in your apps. We’re in the process of building libraries for a number of languages, but in the meantime, you can...