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InfluxDays is really happening and Grafana will be joining us!
It is hard to believe that our inaugural conference, Influx/Days is really happening this year! We are beyond excited, especially to announce that Grafana will not only be a key sponsor for this event, but will be speaking at the event...
InfluxDB Now Supports Prometheus Remote Read & Write Natively
Last month I attended PromCon, the annual Prometheus conference, in Munich. The conference had a mix of talks from users to implementers with topics ranging from how-to’s and case studies to details on the implementation of the Prometheus 2.0 storage engine....
DC/OS Plug-in for Telegraf Enables Time Series Data Collection for Container Monitoring Solution
This is an exciting week for InfluxData and Mesosphere. It is the culmination of several months of hard work by our teamsa collective effort that spans product, engineering, and marketing. Today, we announced the new Mesosphere DC/OS Plug-in for Telegraf, the...
Adding Support for Zipkin and Tracing to Telegraf and InfluxDB
Why Tracing? Everyone seems to be adopting a microservice architecture to support their continuous delivery initiatives. Compared to traditional monolithic architectures, a microservice architecture allows you to build your application from a suite of small, modular services which run as unique...
Finding the Hidden Gems in Your Data: An IoT Demo
Being the New IoT Guy at InfluxData, it was sort of a given that I’d have to create some sort of large-scale IoT demo using the InfluxData stack. It just had to happen, and now it has. I’ll give you a...
Graylog Monitoring
We often get asked the question about what metrics you should collect and act on for the various products that we support with our Telegraf plugins. Of course, we tell people that it will depend on the product itself (is it...
InfluxDays Call for Papers Now Open - Reserve Your Spot
Ever since I have joined InfluxData, the community has been begging for a technical conference dedicated to all things metrics and events and time series data. Well, you asked for it… and we have our first one in the books! Introducing...
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...