Release Announcement: Telegraf 1.5.3, Chronograf 1.4.2.3, and Kapacitor 1.4.1
Three maintenance releases are available now: Telegraf 1.5.3 -- release notes Chronograf 1.4.2.3 -- release notes Kapacitor 1.4.1 -- release notes Each release delivers a small number of fixes to address issues reported through the community and by our customers. The binaries for...
Instrumenting Your Node/Express Application: Viewing Your Data
This post is the follow-up to Instrumenting Your Node/Express Application. Here we will begin to explore some of the data that is being stored in InfluxDB and build out a dashboard in Chronograf. If you haven’t had a chance yet to...
Computer Weekly | InfluxData: Fundamentally, all sensor data is time series data
Publication: Computer Weekly Title: InfluxData: Fundamentally, all sensor data is time series data Author: Adrian Bridgwater Abstract: In this Computer Weekly article, Adrian Bridgwater covers how InfluxData is responding to the growing need for IoT tools and mechanics, through its open source ‘metrics...
InfluxDays Coming to London in June!
I can’t believe it has already been a month since our InfluxDays event in NYC. We had a brilliant time with our speakers, our developers, and you, the users of our fabulous open source projects! We have since posted the recordings...
Sending Alerts from Kapacitor via MQTT
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...
CRN | 10 Hot Startups that Raised VC Funding in February
Publication: CRN Title: 10 Hot Startups That Raised VC Funding In February Author: Kyle Alspach Abstract: In this CRN article, Kyle Alspach profiles 10 hot startups that raised VC funding in February 2018. Among the startups profiled is InfluxData, whose Series C round...
The New Stack | Optimizing Data Queries for Time Series Applications
Publication: The New Stack Title: Optimizing Data Queries for Time Series Applications Author: Katy Farmer Abstract: This article by DevRel at InfluxData Katy Farmer, published in The New Stack, addresses the question of how to optimize data queries for time series applications....
Instrumenting Your Node/Express Application
This post will walk through the steps to instrument a sample nodeJS/Express application, collecting our metrics with Telegraf, and storing them with InfluxDB. A subsequent post will cover the exploration of our data and building out a dashboard with Chronograf. Why...
Release Announcement: InfluxDB 1.5.0 and InfluxDB Enterprise 1.5.0
New feature bearing releases for InfluxDB and InfluxDB Enterprise are now available: InfluxDB 1.5.0 -- release notes InfluxDB Enterprise 1.5.0 -- release notes Key highlights for the release include: General Availability of the Time Series Index (TSI) - this feature allows for...
Logging Improvements for InfluxDB 1.5.0
When it comes to troubleshooting issues, log files are a high-valued asset. If things go wrong, you’ll almost always be asked to “send the logs”. InfluxDB 1.5 comes with a number of improvements to logging in an effort to simplify the...