How to Monitor Your Monitoring Solution with InfluxDB
This article was written by InfluxAce Nikki Cornell, a Software Engineer at Digits. In the real world, if your observability pipeline goes down, you may not receive vital alerts for the system that’s being monitored. To solve that problem, I looked...
Release Announcement: InfluxDB OSS 1.8.4
A new maintenance release for InfluxDB OSS is available now. InfluxDB 1.8.4 release notes InfluxDB 1.8.4 includes the following fixes and improvements: Exporting Line Protocol influx_inspect export includes a new flag -lponly flag to export data in line protocol format only....
Building Strong Global Partnerships
Despite a halt in travel in 2020, InfluxData made incredible progress reaching users around the world through the new InfluxData Authorized Channel Partner program. The program features a robust ecosystem of distributor and reseller partners that help to support InfluxDB users...
HAProxy Monitoring (the InfluxDB Way)
My personal experience with HAProxy dates back to my work with a previous company, where we used HAProxy to do load balancing between pairs of servers with specific roles. Those servers are the core of the major payment gateway in Uruguay,...
Release Announcement: Kapacitor 1.5.8
A new maintenance release for Kapacitor is available now. Kapacitor 1.5.8 release notes Important Highlight We’ve recently updated the package validation mechanics to use SHA-256. Versions prior to 1.5.5 used MD5 which had some known security vulnerabilities. This release for Kapacitor...
Announcement: InfluxDays EMEA 2021 Call for Papers is open!
We’re pleased to announce that InfluxDays EMEA 2021 Virtual Experience will be held on May 18-19, 2021 and the call for papers is open! ???? InfluxDays is an event focused on the impact of time series data. Attendees gain first-hand knowledge...
How We Use InfluxDB for Security Monitoring
At InfluxData, we believe it makes sense to use a time series database for security monitoring. In summary, it’s because security investigations are inevitably time-oriented – you want to monitor and alert on who accessed what, from where, at which time...
Release Announcement: Telegraf 1.17.2
A new maintenance release for Telegraf is available now. Telegraf 1.17.2 release notes This maintenance release of Telegraf includes the following improvements: Ping Input (ping) Added support to set the interface in native mode using either the name or IP address...
InfluxData is SOC 2 Certified
At InfluxData, we focus on our customers’ productivity time to awesome, as we call it. Usually this is about product capabilities InfluxDB’s features, speed, scalability, etc. But for some, your project will grow in size to the point where you need...
InfluxData secures SOC 2 Type II certification for InfluxDB Cloud
SAN FRANCISCO – January 28, 2021 – InfluxData, creator of the time series database InfluxDB, today announced it has achieved Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 Type II compliance for InfluxDB Cloud, the fully managed and serverless time series platform. The certification...