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The InfluxData Blog Challenge
At the end of my first week here, fellow twitter user Michael Greene posted the following tweet: I couldn’t resist the opportunity, so I added some incentive and offered to send him some swag if he completed the challenge. He got...
Mineflux: Building a Telegraf Plugin to Collect Data from Your Minecraft Server
Written by Ayrdrie Palmer & Adam Perlin Translated into Japanese by Atsushi Fujiwara Overview Our first week at InfluxData was spent learning InfluxDB, the database behind InfluxData. We were told how simple the other components were to use so we decided...
Why An IoT Guy Joined InfluxData
It’s my first week here at InfluxData, and I’ve been asked “Why would this IoT guy join InfluxData?” a bunch of times. Well glad you asked! First, a little bit about me as an IoT guy, and then why I joined...
Running InfluxDB on an ARTIK-520 REDUX
David Simmons has written a great blog on his experience on running InfluxDB on an ARTIK-520 REDUX. What really amazed me is how quick he was able to download and get it running in 90 seconds! – Yes 90 seconds! First,...
Why Build a Time Series Data Platform?
Please note: This blog was originally published on DB-Engines and can be found here. In the middle of the big data hype cycle, before IoT was on the top of everyone’s buzz list, before Cloud Native was common lingo and before...
How to Build an IoT Gateway with InfluxData and Balena
Note: Since this article has been written, resin.io has been renamed balena. Text occurrences of resin.io in the original article are now replaced by the updated name balena.io. Motivation In many IoT installations users want to collect all the data for a...
InfluxData On The Road: CloudFoundry Summit
CloudFoundry Summit InfluxData was at CloudFoundry summit last week! We met a bunch of users who were very excited to see the new version of Chronograf. CloudFoundry and InfluxDB While InfluxDB can ingest metrics from a variety of sources, each one...
Draft for Kubernetes - A Prototyping Tool
Overview Draft for Kubernetes is a tool to help prototype microservices and expose them on a publicly available domain. This makes quickly iterating on things like webhooks or APIs quick and painless. Draft utilizes docker, Helm, and Kubernetes Ingress Controllers to make your...
Metrics are Dead? Thoughts after Monitorama
Last week I attended Monitorama in Portland, Oregon. It’s an annual conference that focuses on… you guessed it, monitoring. Much of the content and sponsor focus is on DevOps Monitoring, but it’s not exclusively devoted to that. Many of the talks were applicable...
Botmetric Journey: Choosing a Real Time Metrics DataStore That Works
This blog post was originally posted on Medium - posted here with permission from Vijay Rayapati of Botmetric. Botmetric Journey: Choosing a Real Time Metrics DataStore That Works (From OpenTSDB, Cassandra To InfluxDB ) We started Botmetric in 2014 with a mission...