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...
InfluxData Reaches 300 Customer Milestone
Movement to Modern Time Series Platform Accelerates Growth San FranciscoJune 28, 2017InfluxData, the modern open source platform built from the ground up for metrics and events, is excited to celebrate 300 customers using InfluxData since its release nine months ago. InfluxData...
TL;DR Tech Tips: New Query Language Features in Version 1.3
In this 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 (&) Bitwise OR (|) Bitwise Exclusive-OR (^) The following query calculates the...
TL;DR Tech Tips: New InfluxQL Functions in Version 1.3
In this 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&A from GitHub, IRC, and the InfluxData Community. New Function: INTEGRAL() The INTEGRAL()...
Telegraf Update - 1.3 and How to Write Plugins
We recently released the 1.3 version of Telegraf. Have a python script that grabs some custom metrics? Use the exec plugin. Have some logfiles that contain metrics? Use the logparser plugin. Need to measure API response time? The ping plugin has...
IoT Revolution, Smart Systems, and Our Planet
When people think of self-driving cars and the IoT Revolution, their thoughts turn to the very real, first-person experience: What will it be like to trust a machine to drive? Will it be safe? What if my car is hacked, or...
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...
TL;DR Tech Tips: Managing the Work History in Chronograf
In this 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&A from GitHub, IRC, and the InfluxData Community. Managing alert...
IoT Platform Use CaseSpiio Helps Green the World with InfluxData
A real world IoT Platform Use Case. Vertical gardens, or living green walls, are wall systems that provide a growing environment for plants on any interior or exterior wall surface. People construct these living walls because they purify and humidify the...