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...
Latest Telegraf 1.22 release includes faster line protocol parsing, Varnish enhancements, and new Hashicorp plugins
A new feature-bearing release for Telegraf is now available: Telegraf 1.22.0 – release notes The binaries for the latest Telegraf release can be found on our downloads page. Many thanks to the 40+ open source community members who contributed to this...
Security improvements now available in Kapacitor 1.6.4
Kapacitor 1.6.4 – release notes Includes the following fixes and improvements: Security For those integrating Kapacitor with Kafka, we've added support for SASL-based security authentication. This is similar to the security provided by Telegraf for integrating with Kafka. We've deprecated additional...
Telegraf's New Fast and Efficient Line Protocol Parser
As part of the new v1.22.0 Telegraf release, Telegraf is happy to announce the availability of a faster, more memory-efficient implementation of the Line Protocol Parser. Users who make heavy use of line protocol and are parsing huge amounts of data...
Building a Simple, Pure-Rust, Async Apache Kafka Client
This article was originally published in The New Stack. For InfluxDB IOx, the future core of InfluxDB, we use Apache Kafka to sequence data: Up until now, we have relied on rust-rdkafka, which provides async binding for librdkafka, which in turn is written in C. So why...
Using InfluxDB as an IoT Edge Historian
InfluxDB is increasingly being used in IoT solutions to store data from connected devices. Now it can also be used on IoT edge gateways as a data historian to analyze, visualize and eventually transmit aggregated IoT data up to a centralized...
InfluxData Named one of America's Best Startup Employers by Forbes
Time series leader recognized in the top 25% for employee satisfaction, employer reputation and hypergrowth SAN FRANCISCO, March 15, 2022 – InfluxData, creator of the leading time series platform InfluxDB, today announced it has been included on the Forbes list of...