WP Engine Uses InfluxDB to Power Observability on a Global Scale
The WP Engine platform provides brands the solutions they need to create remarkable sites and apps on WordPress that drive their business forward faster. It hosts over 1.5 million websites, serving over 175,000 customers in more than 150 different countries, and...
Getting Started with R and InfluxDB
This article was written by Gourav Singh Bais and was originally published in The New Stack. As a data professional, you may come across some datasets with few independent variables (input variables). One variable would be time, and the other can...
InfluxData Wins Comparably Awards for Best Company Outlook and Best Engineering Team
Annual awards recognize companies based on workplace culture ratings from current employees SAN FRANCISCO, April 6, 2022 – InfluxData, creator of the leading time series platform InfluxDB, today announced it has won awards for Best Company Outlook and Best Engineering Team...
TL;DR InfluxDB Tech Tips: Converting InfluxQL Queries to Flux Queries
If you’re a 1.x user of InfluxDB, you’re most likely more familiar with InfluxQL than you are with Flux. To gain a deep understanding of Flux, it’s important to understand: The basics of the language Annotated CSV, the output format of...
IoT Made Easy with Node-RED and InfluxDB
In this article you will learn about Node-RED, a popular tool for rapidly gluing together different types of hardware and software. You’ll learn about some of the core concepts of Node-RED and then learn how to make some workflows like storing...
Usability improvements in the new release of Chronograf
Chronograf 1.9.4 – Release Notes This latest release of Chronograf includes the following new improvements and fixes: Flux Chronograf 1.9.4 now includes a Flux Builder to support users who are new to Flux and want a more guided experience building up...
InfluxData Recognized for Industry Leadership in 2022 Data Breakthrough Awards
InfluxDB wins Best Use of Data for IoT Applications category SAN FRANCISCO, March 29, 2022 – InfluxData, creator of the leading time series platform InfluxDB, today announced InfluxDB has been named a winner in the Data Breakthrough Awards for the Best...
Where Will Process Historians Fit in the Modern Industrial Technology Stack?
When Rolls Royce Power Systems recently needed to improve its operational efficiency within its manufacturing plants, it didn’t expand its use of a legacy process historian or purchase historian connectors to export data to their business intelligence systems. Instead, it decided...
Mist Clears the Way for Multicloud Observability
This article was originally published in The New Stack. A multicloud strategy is a necessity for modern businesses, as the recent AWS outages made clear, but managing this infrastructure remains a huge challenge. Infrastructure management teams have long struggled to juggle...
InfluxDB as an IoT Edge Historian: A Crawl/Walk/Run Approach
This article was originally published in The New Stack. Photo by Tim Vanderhoydonck on Unsplash The question of how to get data into a database is one of the most fundamental aspects of data processing that developers face. Data collection can be challenging enough...