Why I Joined InfluxData – David Webb
I vividly remember my first experience with the concept of eternity, declaring to my mom from the back seat of our ‘91 Camry that “space has to end at some point.” My young mind couldn’t comprehend something that keeps going and...
Celebrating Lunar New Year at InfluxData
What is the Lunar New Year? Lunar New Year is a festival celebrated in certain east Asian countries that begins with the first new moon of the lunar calendar and ends 15 days later on the first full moon of the...
Data Visualizations with InfluxDB: Integrating plotly.js
One of the great features of the InfluxData cloud platform is that it comes out of the box with all the tools you need to quickly read and write your data to the database. Here, we’ll walk through creating data visualizations...
InfluxData releases Telegraf 1.21.3, updating SNMP, HTTP, and OPC-UA input plugins, along with fixes for the JSON parser
The new maintenance release for Telegraf is available now. Telegraf 1.21.3 – Release Notes Input plugin updates Execd Input We resolved a text format parsing error for Prometheus parsing due to an unexpected end of input stream by adding a newline...
What Happened to My Points?
This article explores some of the ways that invalid data can be rejected when writing to InfluxDB and describes a new feature that makes it easier to know when and why that happens. Syntax gone awry Let’s write some data to...
Security and extensibility enhancements are now available in Kapacitor 1.6.3
Security and extensibility enhancements are now available in Kapacitor 1.6.3. Kapacitor 1.6.3 – release notes Kapacitor 1.6.3 includes the following fixes and improvements: Security We've deprecated ciphers that were identified as "weak" as part of the sweet32 attack. TICKscript enhancements - additional config...
Algist Bruggeman Uses Insights from InfluxDB to Optimize Industrial Processes and Production
Founded in 1884 and located in Ghent, Belgium, Algist Bruggeman supplies fresh, liquid, and dried yeast to industrial, semi-artisanal, and artisanal bakeries, as well as to the beer, wine, and pharma industries. Algist Bruggeman is part of the Lesaffre Group, a...
Why I Joined InfluxData - Patrick Williams
As a seasoned Account Executive in the IT & Cloud space, I worked at large organizations like IBM and NTT, as well as startups like StorageOS and Armalytix. But I took the most inspiration from working at Rackspace for 11 years....
Flux Join Tutorial - Enrich Time Series Data with Data from PostgreSQL
In this tutorial you will learn how to use the Flux query language to enrich time series data stored in InfluxDB by combining it with metadata stored in a relational database. Tutorial requirements To follow this tutorial you will need a...
Telegraf Best Practices: Config Recommendations and Performance Monitoring
Telegraf has reached the ripe old age of V1.21.2. Thanks to community feedback and contribution, there have been many features added over the years. Lately, I have seen these questions pop up: How can I monitor the performance of my Telegraf...