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Using External Data Sources to Enhance Your IoT Data
I write a lot about IoT data, and what to do with it. (Hint: Store it in InfluxDB, of course!) But there’s more to making your IoT data useful than just storing it, analyzing it, and visualizing itwhich is so far...
Tracking Real-Time Weather Updates
Not long ago I started wondering if I could use InfluxDB to track weather events in real-time. We’ve had more than a few significant weather events recentlynotably named Harvey, Irma and Maria and I wanted to see if I could do...
Catching Up with Chronograf
Chronograf 1.3.9.0 is now available for download, and it provides a number of new features including an editor for TICKscript, support for the fill() functions, the ability to download queries as CSV files, and support for multiple data sources per dashboard....
Introducing Another Influx/Days Speaker: Dan Vanderkam
How can InfluxDays get any betterwith Dan Vanderkam as one of our speakers! Dan is a Senior Software Engineer at Sidewalk Labs. They are an Alphabet company that focuses on how to make cities betterlooking at things like public transportation, public...
Influx/Days 2017 Speaker: Jared Lander
Football season is upon us, and we thought, why not invite a speaker who knows something about football and data? So, we are pleased to introduce to you one of our new speakers, Jared P. Lander who was featured in the Wall...
Release Announcement: Telegraf 1.4.1, InfluxDB 1.3.6 and Chronograf 1.3.8.3
Maintenance InfluxData release for the following TICK Stack components are now available: Telegraf v1.4.1 -- release notes InfluxDB v.1.3.6 - release notes Chronograf v1.3.8.3 - release notes You can find these latest releases via our downloads page: https://portal.influxdata.com/downloads In conjunction with the...
Enriching Your Data with Kapacitor
From time to time, we have seen requests from the community around querying InfluxDB based on a business period such as the typical business day or broken down into shift periods. Consider the following request: How do I summarize my data...
Building a Better Telegraf Plugin (Still for Beginners)
Seems like it was just yesterday that I was writing a blog about How To Build a Telegraf Plugin for Beginners. Wait, that was just yesterday! And yet here I am back again writing another one. If you read yesterday’s post, and...
Multiple Data Center Replication with InfluxDB
Introduction Disaster Recovery and multi-datacenter replication of InfluxDB and Kapacitor are two frequently asked-about topics. In this post, I cover some of the suggested patterns for accomplishing this. Additionally, I will discuss the pros and cons of each approach and how...
How to Write a Telegraf Plugin for Beginners
Maybe all your data comes from sources that already have existing Telegraf plugins, but I’m guessing that’s not the case. I’ve made extensive use of the http Telegraf plugin so far, and I’m working on a project that uses the MQTT...