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If your organization uses an identity provider that includes support for OAuth2,...","date_published":"Mon, 17 Dec 2018 11:35:20 -0700","date_modified":"Mon, 17 Dec 2018 11:35:20 -0700","authors":[{"name":"Craig Hobbs","url":"https://www.influxdata.com/blog/author/craig-hobbs/","avatar":"//images.ctfassets.net/o7xu9whrs0u9/65Y0czpx1S2nGUJQdJ0tDH/d6945b7e2ae75f4c8997b274260bbc58/Craig-Hobbs.jpg"}],"tags":["Tech Tips"],"author":{"name":"Craig Hobbs","url":"https://www.influxdata.com/blog/author/craig-hobbs/","avatar":"//images.ctfassets.net/o7xu9whrs0u9/65Y0czpx1S2nGUJQdJ0tDH/d6945b7e2ae75f4c8997b274260bbc58/Craig-Hobbs.jpg"}},{"url":"https://www.influxdata.com/blog/the-state-of-tickscript-development","title":"The State of TICKscript Development","content_text":"In order to get the most out of Kapacitor (the ‘K’ of the TICK Stack) and the monitoring and alerting it provides, you and your team will need to write TICKscripts. TICKscript is a simple yet powerful way to aggregate, analyze,...","date_published":"Mon, 09 Apr 2018 15:04:52 -0700","date_modified":"Mon, 09 Apr 2018 15:04:52 -0700","authors":[{"name":"Russ Savage","url":"https://www.influxdata.com/blog/author/russ/","avatar":"//images.ctfassets.net/o7xu9whrs0u9/5v9SbRbRHGc3CDg66IPcJj/97db5723dc1f119a2b43092c3f38f70d/Russ-Savage.jpg"}],"tags":["Chronograf","Kapacitor","Tech Tips","Developer"],"author":{"name":"Russ Savage","url":"https://www.influxdata.com/blog/author/russ/","avatar":"//images.ctfassets.net/o7xu9whrs0u9/5v9SbRbRHGc3CDg66IPcJj/97db5723dc1f119a2b43092c3f38f70d/Russ-Savage.jpg"}},{"url":"https://www.influxdata.com/blog/sending-alerts-from-kapacitor-via-mqtt","title":"Sending Alerts from Kapacitor via MQTT","content_text":"A long long time ago (in a galaxy far far away) I wrote about using this little GlowOrb I had to show alerts from Kapacitor. It was really pretty cool, and I’ve been using it for demos ever since to great...","date_published":"Tue, 13 Mar 2018 04:53:02 -0700","date_modified":"Tue, 13 Mar 2018 04:53:02 -0700","authors":[{"name":"David G. Simmons","url":"https://www.influxdata.com/blog/author/davidgsimmons/","avatar":"//images.ctfassets.net/o7xu9whrs0u9/7MTYwwD4JykKftZ7ngcMqd/60504262e2f8e88229073dae0621c3a7/David-Simmons.jpg"}],"tags":["Kapacitor","IoT","Tech Tips","Developer"],"author":{"name":"David G. Simmons","url":"https://www.influxdata.com/blog/author/davidgsimmons/","avatar":"//images.ctfassets.net/o7xu9whrs0u9/7MTYwwD4JykKftZ7ngcMqd/60504262e2f8e88229073dae0621c3a7/David-Simmons.jpg"}},{"url":"https://www.influxdata.com/blog/building-better-telegraf-plugin","title":"Building a Better Telegraf Plugin (Still for Beginners)","content_text":"Seems like it was just yesterday that I was writing a blog about How To Build a Telegraf Plugin for Beginners. Wait, that was\u0026nbsp;just yesterday! And yet here I am back again writing another one. If you read yesterday’s post, and...","date_published":"Sat, 30 Sep 2017 09:58:37 -0700","date_modified":"Sat, 30 Sep 2017 09:58:37 -0700","authors":[{"name":"David G. Simmons","url":"https://www.influxdata.com/blog/author/davidgsimmons/","avatar":"//images.ctfassets.net/o7xu9whrs0u9/7MTYwwD4JykKftZ7ngcMqd/60504262e2f8e88229073dae0621c3a7/David-Simmons.jpg"}],"tags":["Product","Telegraf","IoT","Tech Tips","Developer"],"author":{"name":"David G. Simmons","url":"https://www.influxdata.com/blog/author/davidgsimmons/","avatar":"//images.ctfassets.net/o7xu9whrs0u9/7MTYwwD4JykKftZ7ngcMqd/60504262e2f8e88229073dae0621c3a7/David-Simmons.jpg"}},{"url":"https://www.influxdata.com/blog/build-iot-gateway-influxdata-resin-io","title":"How to Build an IoT Gateway with InfluxData and Balena","content_text":"Note:\u0026nbsp;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...","date_published":"Mon, 10 Jul 2017 15:07:28 -0700","date_modified":"Mon, 10 Jul 2017 15:07:28 -0700","authors":[{"name":"David G. Simmons","url":"https://www.influxdata.com/blog/author/davidgsimmons/","avatar":"//images.ctfassets.net/o7xu9whrs0u9/7MTYwwD4JykKftZ7ngcMqd/60504262e2f8e88229073dae0621c3a7/David-Simmons.jpg"}],"tags":["IoT","Tech Tips","Developer"],"author":{"name":"David G. Simmons","url":"https://www.influxdata.com/blog/author/davidgsimmons/","avatar":"//images.ctfassets.net/o7xu9whrs0u9/7MTYwwD4JykKftZ7ngcMqd/60504262e2f8e88229073dae0621c3a7/David-Simmons.jpg"}},{"url":"https://www.influxdata.com/blog/tldr-tech-tips-new-query-language-features-in-version-1-3","title":"TL;DR Tech Tips: New Query Language Features in Version 1.3","content_text":"In this\u0026nbsp;post, we give a preview of some new query language features in InfluxQL version 1.3. New Operators Version 1.3 introduces several new mathematical operators: Modulo (%) Bitwise AND (\u0026amp;) Bitwise OR (|) Bitwise Exclusive-OR (^) The following query calculates the...","date_published":"Thu, 22 Jun 2017 04:00:11 -0700","date_modified":"Thu, 22 Jun 2017 04:00:11 -0700","authors":[{"name":"Regan Kuchan","url":"https://www.influxdata.com/blog/author/rkuchan/","avatar":null}],"tags":["Tech Tips"],"author":{"name":"Regan Kuchan","url":"https://www.influxdata.com/blog/author/rkuchan/","avatar":null}},{"url":"https://www.influxdata.com/blog/tldr-tech-tips-functions-version-1-3","title":"TL;DR Tech Tips: New InfluxQL Functions in Version 1.3","content_text":"In this\u0026nbsp;post, we give a preview of the new InfluxQL functions in version 1.3. Check in next week for the most interesting TICK Stack related issues, workarounds, how-tos, and Q\u0026amp;A from GitHub, IRC, and the InfluxData\u0026nbsp;Community. New Function: INTEGRAL() The INTEGRAL()...","date_published":"Thu, 15 Jun 2017 04:00:54 -0700","date_modified":"Thu, 15 Jun 2017 04:00:54 -0700","authors":[{"name":"Regan Kuchan","url":"https://www.influxdata.com/blog/author/rkuchan/","avatar":null}],"tags":["Tech Tips"],"author":{"name":"Regan Kuchan","url":"https://www.influxdata.com/blog/author/rkuchan/","avatar":null}},{"url":"https://www.influxdata.com/blog/draft-for-kubernetes-a-prototyping-tool","title":"Draft for Kubernetes - A Prototyping Tool","content_text":"Overview Draft\u0026nbsp;for Kubernetes is a tool to help\u0026nbsp;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...","date_published":"Tue, 06 Jun 2017 04:00:26 -0700","date_modified":"Tue, 06 Jun 2017 04:00:26 -0700","authors":[{"name":"Jack Zampolin","url":"https://www.influxdata.com/blog/author/jackzampolin/","avatar":null}],"tags":["Tech Tips","Developer"],"author":{"name":"Jack Zampolin","url":"https://www.influxdata.com/blog/author/jackzampolin/","avatar":null}},{"url":"https://www.influxdata.com/blog/tldr-influxdb-tech-tips-june-01-2017","title":"TL;DR Tech Tips: Managing the Work History in Chronograf","content_text":"In this\u0026nbsp;post, we recap some new material that you might have missed in the past week or so. Check in next week for the most interesting TICK-stack related issues, workarounds, how-tos, and Q\u0026amp;A from GitHub, IRC, and the InfluxData\u0026nbsp;Community. Managing alert...","date_published":"Thu, 01 Jun 2017 04:00:13 -0700","date_modified":"Thu, 01 Jun 2017 04:00:13 -0700","authors":[{"name":"Regan Kuchan","url":"https://www.influxdata.com/blog/author/rkuchan/","avatar":null}],"tags":["Chronograf","Tech Tips"],"author":{"name":"Regan Kuchan","url":"https://www.influxdata.com/blog/author/rkuchan/","avatar":null}},{"url":"https://www.influxdata.com/blog/tldr-influxdb-tech-tips-may-18-2017","title":"TL;DR InfluxDB Tech Tips: Identical Field Keys \u0026 Tag Keys, Existing Kapacitor TICKscripts in Chronograf \u0026 More","content_text":"In this\u0026nbsp;post, we recap some new material that you might have missed in the past week or so. Check in next week for the most interesting TICK-stack related issues, workarounds, how-tos, and Q\u0026amp;A from GitHub, IRC, and the InfluxData\u0026nbsp;Community. Identical field...","date_published":"Thu, 18 May 2017 04:00:56 -0700","date_modified":"Thu, 18 May 2017 04:00:56 -0700","authors":[{"name":"Regan Kuchan","url":"https://www.influxdata.com/blog/author/rkuchan/","avatar":null}],"tags":["Chronograf","Product","Kapacitor","Tech Tips"],"author":{"name":"Regan Kuchan","url":"https://www.influxdata.com/blog/author/rkuchan/","avatar":null}},{"url":"https://www.influxdata.com/blog/tldr-influxdb-tech-tips-may-11-2017","title":"TL;DR InfluxDB Tech Tips: Configuring Telegraf \u0026 Kapacitor When auth is Enabled on InfluxDB \u0026 Tips on Chronograf","content_text":"In this\u0026nbsp;post, we recap some new material that you might have missed in the past week or so. Check in next week for the most interesting TICK stack related issues, workarounds, how-tos, and Q\u0026amp;A from GitHub, IRC, and the InfluxData\u0026nbsp;Community. Understanding...","date_published":"Thu, 11 May 2017 04:00:18 -0700","date_modified":"Thu, 11 May 2017 04:00:18 -0700","authors":[{"name":"Regan Kuchan","url":"https://www.influxdata.com/blog/author/rkuchan/","avatar":null}],"tags":["Chronograf","Tech Tips"],"author":{"name":"Regan Kuchan","url":"https://www.influxdata.com/blog/author/rkuchan/","avatar":null}}]}