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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...
The Open Source Business Model is Under Siege
A few weeks ago I gave the Day 2 opening keynote at PerconaLive, a conference focused on Open Source Databases. My talk, titled “The Open Source Business Model is Under Siege,” is about the existential threat that Open Source Database companies,...
Prometheus + InfluxDB: Thoughts After the Austin Monitoring Meetup
At The Austin Monitoring Meetup last night it was great to see how Prometheus and InfluxDB can be used together. I’ll highlight some of the details from my talk, but first I’d like to point to some work that Julius Volz, one...
Autoscaling Docker Swarm with the TICK Stack
TICK Stack and Docker With each successive release of the TICK Stack, InfluxData is improving the ease of use, depth of metrics, and level of control we provide in maintaining and monitoring Docker installations. InfluxDB has been an integral part of...