Finding the Hidden Gems in Your Data: An IoT Demo
Being the New IoT Guy at InfluxData, it was sort of a given that I’d have to create some sort of large-scale IoT demo using the InfluxData stack. It just had to happen, and now it has. I’ll give you a...
InfluxData Named Advanced Tier Technology Partner in AWS Partner Network
SAN FRANCISCOAugust 29, 2017InfluxData, the modern Open Source Platform built from the ground up for metrics and events, is excited to be recognized as an Advanced tier Technology Partner in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN). This designation recognizes...
Graylog Monitoring
We often get asked the question about what metrics you should collect and act on for the various products that we support with our Telegraf plugins. Of course, we tell people that it will depend on the product itself (is it...
The Smart Way to Collect IoT Data for Home Automation
No matter how many customers I talk to, I am still pleasantly surprised at the interesting products they develop and equally surprised at the creative ways that they incorporate InfluxData components into their solutions! One example of such creativity is with...
InfluxDays Call for Papers Now Open - Reserve Your Spot
Ever since I have joined InfluxData, the community has been begging for a technical conference dedicated to all things metrics and events and time series data. Well, you asked for it… and we have our first one in the books! Introducing...
InfluxData Rolls Out New Version of Its Cloud Service to Include Stronger Visualization and Control Capabilities
San FranciscoAugust 16, 2017InfluxData, the modern open source platform built from the ground up for metrics and events, is excited to announce an update for InfluxDB Cloud, the fully supported, managed and hosted version of the InfluxData platform to scale with...
The InfluxData Blog Challenge
At the end of my first week here, fellow twitter user Michael Greene posted the following tweet: I couldn’t resist the opportunity, so I added some incentive and offered to send him some swag if he completed the challenge. He got...
Mineflux: Building a Telegraf Plugin to Collect Data from Your Minecraft Server
Written by Ayrdrie Palmer & Adam Perlin Translated into Japanese by Atsushi Fujiwara Overview Our first week at InfluxData was spent learning InfluxDB, the database behind InfluxData. We were told how simple the other components were to use so we decided...
Why An IoT Guy Joined InfluxData
It’s my first week here at InfluxData, and I’ve been asked “Why would this IoT guy join InfluxData?” a bunch of times. Well glad you asked! First, a little bit about me as an IoT guy, and then why I joined...
Running InfluxDB on an ARTIK-520 REDUX
David Simmons has written a great blog on his experience on running InfluxDB on an ARTIK-520 REDUX. What really amazed me is how quick he was able to download and get it running in 90 seconds! – Yes 90 seconds! First,...