Blog – InfluxData

One Technology That Makes Renewable Energy More Efficient

Jason Myers — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 07:00:00 +0000

This article was originally published in The New Stack and is reposted here with permission. Time series data can provide insight into ways to make energy production and consumption more cost-effective and efficient. The year 2022 saw the impact that world...

Simplifying InfluxDB: Shards and Retention Policies

Margo Schaedel — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 08:00:10 -0700

I recently did a webinar on an Introduction to InfluxDB and Telegraf and in preparing for it, I came to the woeful realization that there are still a number of concepts about InfluxDB which remain quite mysterious to me. Now, if...

Visualizing Your Time Series Data with the Highcharts Library

Margo Schaedel — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 13:00:12 -0700

There have been a couple of posts in the past on visualizing your time series data using different charting libraries such as this integration with plotly.js or this one on the Rickshaw library. Today we’re going to take a look at the charting...

Getting Started with the Node-Influx Client Library

Margo Schaedel — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 13:20:39 -0700

Embark on a new journey with node-influx!

When in doubt, start at the beginningan adage that applies to any learning journey, including getting started with the node-influx client library. Let’s take a look at the InfluxDB client librariesin particular, node-influx,...

Batch Processing vs. Stream Processing: What's the Difference?

Margo Schaedel — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 09:30:05 -0700

If you’ve read DevRel Katy Farmer’s stellar post, Kapacitor and Continuous Queries: How To Decide Which Tool You Need, then you know that when our community talks, we listen. So, in alignment with that view and in honor of our very...

A Twitter Chat on IoT and Data

David G. Simmons — Fri, 15 Dec 2017 10:30:40 -0700

Yesterday (that would be 12/14/2017) I participated in a live Twitter Chat hosted by @rackspace that they call #cloudchat. Apparently this is a regular event that they host, but this latest one was focused specifically on the Internet Of Things, which...