Herrenknecht AG Powers IIoT Platform and Edge Data Collection for Tunnel Boring Machines with InfluxDB
Herrenknecht AG is a technology leader in mechanized tunneling systems. Engineers at Herrenknecht set out to build an industrial internet of things (IIoT) platform that provided insight into live and historic data for all their tunnel boring machines (TBMs). These machines...
Create Bitcoin Buy and Sell Alerts with InfluxDB
This article was originally published in The New Stack. Given how volatile Bitcoin price is, an automated alerting system can be valuable for preserving our attention and sanity. We can pay attention to Bitcoin only when the price action is interesting....
Particle’s Fleet Health Feature, Powered by InfluxDB, Delivers Device-Specific Data for IoT Deployments
The Particle platform enables companies to manage and program their IoT devices, bringing them to market quicker. To accomplish this, Particle developers needed to be able to collect telemetry data from a large number of edge IoT devices to measure performance....
Prescient Devices Makes Managing IoT Edge Devices Easy with InfluxDB
Prescient Devices focuses on changing the way businesses think about and use edge data and industrial IoT. The company built Prescient Designer, an edge data solutions platform that gives organizations the boost they need to transform their IT/OT processes. Prescient’s products...
TL;DR InfluxDB Tech Tips: Optimizations to aggregateWindow()
If you’re an InfluxDB user you’ve almost certainly used the aggregateWindow() function. The aggregateWindow() function calculates an aggregated value by applying a mean, sum, or any other aggregate function to fixed windows of time. It’s most commonly used to downsample your...
Telegraf 1.22.4 released with updates to Couchbase, Azure, Statsd, and Wavefront plugins
This new maintenance release for Telegraf is available now. Telegraf 1.22.4 Release Notes Agent Telegraf service now waits for network up in systemd packaging. Input plugin updates Couchbase Input The plugin no longer assumes bucket stat metrics will all be the...
InfluxDB and Elementary School Science Fairs
I’m a proud father of an incredibly smart, talented, kind, and just all-around great 9 year-old daughter. Since she first learned to talk, she has been a “questioner,” curious about the world around her and how everything connects (you know, the...
TL;DR InfluxDB Tech Tips: Handling JSON Objects and Mapping Through Arrays
There are multiple ways to use Flux to bring in data from a variety of different sources including SQL databases, other InfluxDB Cloud Accounts, Annotated CSV from a URL, and JSON. However, previously you could only manually construct tables from a...
InfluxData to Present, Sponsor and Exhibit at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022
Silver sponsor and one of the world’s largest Kubernetes users to share expertise on scaling Kubernetes with effective disaster recovery processes SAN FRANCISCO, May 11, 2022 - InfluxData, creator of the leading time series platform InfluxDB, today announced it will sponsor...
Why I Joined InfluxData - Susannah Brodnitz
Going from oceanographic research to working in marketing at InfluxData is a big transition, but it’s one I’m excited about. For the last couple of years, I’ve been working as a research assistant, studying ocean salinity, helping process data collected for...