InfluxData strengthens leadership team with three new Vice Presidents
SAN FRANCISCO – April 21, 2021 – InfluxData, creator of the leading time series database InfluxDB, today announced three leadership promotions – Barbara Nelson to Vice President of Applications, Rick Spencer to Vice President of Platform and Marc Kaplan to Vice...
Release Announcement: InfluxDB OSS and InfluxDB Enterprise 1.8.5
A new maintenance release for both InfluxDB OSS and InfluxDB Enterprise are available now. InfluxDB OSS 1.8.5 release notes InfluxDB Enterprise 1.8.5 release notes InfluxDB 1.8.5 includes the following issues and improvements: Operating Tooling We've added the ability to find which...
InfluxDB's Checks and Notifications System
InfluxDB 2.0’s Checks and Notifications system is likely the most powerful and flexible system available for creating alerts based on time series data. To get the most out of the system, it is helpful to understand the different pieces and how...
InfluxData releases InfluxDB Notebooks to enhance collaboration for teams working with time series data
SAN FRANCISCO – April 14, 2021 – InfluxData, creator of the leading time series database InfluxDB, today announced the general availability of InfluxDB Notebooks, a new capability that improves communication for software development teams, ultimately enhancing productivity within InfluxDB Cloud. InfluxDB...
How to Parse Your XML Data with Telegraf
In March, we released Telegraf 1.18, which included a wide range of new input and output plugins. One exciting new addition was an XML Parser Plugin that added support for another input data format to parse into InfluxDB metrics. What is...
TL;DR InfluxDB Tech Tips: Configuring a Slack Notification with InfluxDB
With InfluxDB you can create notifications to make the most out of your alerts. Notifications enable you to send check statuses to the endpoint of your choice. In this TL;DR we set up a Slack Notification Rule and Endpoint through the...
How to Control Crowds with Python, OpenCV and InfluxDB
As I mentioned a while ago, I am learning to develop in Python; it seems that it is a super easy language to interpret, and so far, I have not found a “no” when trying to do things with it. I...
Release Announcement: Telegraf 1.18.1
A new maintenance release for Telegraf is available now. Telegraf 1.18.1 release notes This maintenance release of Telegraf includes the following improvements: Agent Closes running outputs when agent reloads on SIGHUP Docker Input (docker) Fixed panic when parsing container statistics Exec...
Out-of-this-world monitoring with InfluxDB and React
Reprinted with permission. © IDG Communications, Inc., 2021. https://www.infoworld.com/article/3609389/out-of-this-world-monitoring-with-influxdb-and-react.html During an InfluxData internal hackathon, I was looking to work on a project that would help me strengthen my Telegraf and Flux skills. I also wanted to use InfluxData’s Giraffe to visualize my project in a React application. After reading Sean...
How InfluxDB Works with IoT Data
Over the past few years, the IoT community has embraced InfluxDB as a cornerstone of the solutions they build. Whether modernizing or greenfield, InfluxDB has helped many in working with vast quantities of sensor and device data as we continue to...