We released a new Modbus input plugin in Telegraf 1.14 and in this blog I’d like to tell you more about that plugin and how you can use it. What is Modbus? Modbus is a messaging protocol for industrial devices …
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Have you ever watched the local weather — or The Weather Channel — and heard them announce the temperature, and then the “Heat Index”? Or how hot it feels outside? At least here in the United States, and especially in …
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As more and more IoT deployments look to leverage the power of cloud-based solutions, we here at InfluxData have been working closely with Cloud Service Providers to make sure that InfluxDB continues to be the go-to Time Series Database for …
I’m not a Golang developer. Let’s just get that out of the way up front. I’ve developed a few things in Go, but a Go developer I’m not. I sort of need to be, but it hasn’t been essential. I …
I’ve been saying I was going to write this whole project up for some time now but it has been such a daunting task that I’ve been putting it off, starting and stopping, and generally not getting it done for …
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When people talk about the IoT market, it is almost always in terms of the number of devices that are, or will be, connected to the internet. 20 Billion devices by 2020, <insert billions> of devices by 2025. That’s a …
For those that don’t know, InfluxData has been a member of the Eclipse Foundation since late last year. We joined because it turned out that a few of the Eclipse IoT Projects were already based on, or used as their …
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Parenting is hard. It’s even harder when your kids are sick. But kids are germ factories, and no matter what you do, they get sick. And then you have to touch them and get the germs on you. And then you …
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 …
What’s the most popular open source router software in the world? OpenWRT, of course! It’s the go-to firmware replacement for a huge number of routers both for home and business use. So of course, you need to monitor it! Now …