Built on InfluxDB Award Winners 2021 Announced
We’ve just wrapped up InfluxDays EMEA 2021 as a virtual experience and while we can’t wait to be back with our community in person, this year’s event had some great highlights. The InfluxData engineering team shared technical insights, best practices and...
Monitor Your InfluxDB Open Source Instances with InfluxDB Cloud
Everyone says the cloud is the future. Sure, but try telling that to someone who has terabytes of sensitive data stored in an on-prem InfluxDB Open Source (OSS) instance, and they will bring up a whole set of reasons why it...
Release Announcement: InfluxDB OSS and InfluxDB Enterprise 1.8.6
A new maintenance release for both InfluxDB OSS and InfluxDB Enterprise are available now. InfluxDB OSS 1.8.6 release notes InfluxDB Enterprise 1.8.6 release notes There are no specific improvements within InfluxDB OSS 1.8.6. We re-built the OSS edition to pair with...
Release Announcement: Telegraf 1.18.3
A new maintenance release for Telegraf is available now. Telegraf 1.18.3 release notes This maintenance release of Telegraf includes the following improvements: Builds Added FreeBSD armv7 build Dependencies Migrated from soniah/gosnmp to gosnmp/gosnmp v1.32.0 Migrated from docker/libnetwork/ipvs to moby/ipvs Migrated from...
How to Consolidate OSS Data into a Cloud Account
In this post, we will describe a simple way to share data from multiple InfluxDB 2.0 OSS instances with a central cloud account. This is something that community members have asked for when they have OSS running at different locations, but...
Designing a Parquet Catalog for InfluxDB IOx
One of the things we needed to either adopt or build for InfluxDB IOx is a database catalog. If you haven’t heard us talk about it yet, InfluxDB IOx (pronounced eye-ox) is the new in-memory columnar database that uses object storage...
InfluxDB OSS and Enterprise Roadmap Update from InfluxDays EMEA
InfluxDB OSS 2.x Since the initial release of InfluxDB OSS 2.0 in November 2020, more than 10% of the community has successfully upgraded, and the pace of the upgrades continues at a steady rate. We have released a number of maintenance...
Three Ways to Keep Cardinality Under Control When Using Telegraf
This article will show how we kept cardinality under control with a few tweaks in the Telegraf configuration. If you’re not yet familiar with it, Telegraf is the native and open-source plugin-driver metrics collection agent of InfluxDB. As you may know,...
Customer Highlight: How Index Exchange is Modernizing Its DevOps Practices Using the InfluxDB Platform
One of the best things about working at InfluxData is getting to know the worldwide InfluxDB community. It’s always fun getting to meet new users through our Community Slack, social media, team members and virtual/in-person events. I recently met David Ko,...
Elixir SDK for ConfigCat
This is a re-post of the article originally published in The New Stack on May 3, 2021. One of the great things about SaaS applications is that users in the platform automatically have access to any available software updates. Yet, having a...