Bboxx Taps Time Series Data to Light Up the Developing World
Using technology to help businesses thrive is always a thrill, but it doesn’t compare to the sense of accomplishment on both a personal and organizational level when you see your tech used to positively impact humanity. It’s one thing to function...
DEVCOM Uses InfluxDB to Connect the Field and the Lab
Handling network connection uncertainty The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) Army Research Laboratory (ARL) faces unique challenges in working with data to develop new technologies. It needs the ability to seamlessly analyze data both in the field and in...
Monitoring Ruby on Rails with InfluxDB
This article was written by Aniket Bhattacharyea and originally published in The New Stack. Scroll down for author bio and photo. Time series databases like InfluxDB are databases that specialize in handling time series data, which is data that is indexed...
How Companies Are Using InfluxDB and Kafka in Production
This article was originally published in The New Stack. Hulu, the entertainment streaming platform, needed a solution to scale up its internal application and infrastructure monitoring platform as it grew beyond 1 million metrics per second. The solution it created combines two open source tools...
Build or Buy? Developer Productivity vs. Flexibility
This article was originally published in The New Stack. A common debate in software development focuses on whether to use already-available tools or services, which offer better developer productivity, or stick with lower-level tools or custom-built solutions, which offer more control...
Telegraf Best Practices: SNMP Plugin
Telegraf has now reached 300+ plugins and is deployed in a wide variety of use cases. In January we released a blog post covering the golden rules for creating configs and optimizing your Telegraf agent. It’s now about time we got...
Become a Telegraf Pro with a New Course from InfluxDB University
Telegraf, InfluxData’s open source data collection agent, is a key tool for managing data pipelines. Users around the world rely on Telegraf’s flexibility to collect, clean, transform, and send data. But even with Telegraf’s immense popularity, we continue to look for...
InfluxDB Enterprise 1.9.7 released with enhancements to Flux, Passive Nodes, and Cluster Stability
InfluxDB Enterprise 1.9.7 — Release notes Key highlights for this InfluxDB Enterprise release – available here – include: Enhancements Expose passive nodes to influxd-ctl command. Passive nodes allow for increased horizontal scaling in the write path. Throttle replication of incoming writes and...
Monthly Product Update – New Developer Experience for InfluxDB Cloud
We love to write and ship code to help developers bring their ideas and projects to life. That’s why we’re constantly working on improving our product in sync with developer needs to ensure their happiness and accelerate time to awesome. This...
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...