InfluxDB and Kafka: How InfluxData Uses Kafka in Production
Following CTO Paul Dix’s original release announcement for InfluxDB 2.0 and a new release of InfluxDB Cloud 2.0 to public beta, I thought the community would be interested in learning about how InfluxData provides a multi-tenanted, horizontally scalable time series storage....
InfluxDB and Kafka: How Companies are Integrating the Two
As Kafka and time series databases gain popularity, it becomes increasingly valuable to understand how they are paired together to provide robust real-time data pipeline solutions. As the saying goes, the whole pipeline is greater than the sum of the Kafka...
InfluxDB vs. Splunk for Time Series Data, Metrics & Management
At InfluxData, one of the questions we regularly get asked by developers and architects alike is: “How does InfluxDB compare to Splunk for time series workloads?” This question might be prompted for a couple of reasons. First, if they’re starting a...
Release Announcement: Telegraf 1.11.4
A new maintenance release for Telegraf is available now. Telegraf 1.11.4 release notes This maintenance release of Telegraf 1.11.4 includes improvements to the following plugins: Datadog Output (datadog) Skip floats that are NaN or Inf when writing data to Datadog. Kubernetes Input...
Fast Company names InfluxData one of the 50 Best Workplaces for Innovators
List recognizes the top 50 companies focused on innovation across all levels of the organization SAN FRANCISCO August 5, 2019 Fast Company today announced InfluxData, creator of time series database InfluxDB, to its inaugural list of Best Workplaces for Innovators. Fast...
Use Flux to Group, Shape, and Analyze Your Time Series Data
Flux is a programming language designed from the ground up for time series analysis. Traditionally, grouping, shaping, and performing mathematical operations across large dynamic time series datasets is cumbersome. Flux’s goal is to make it working with these datasets much more...
Release Announcement: InfluxDB 2.0.0 Alpha 16
A new release of InfluxDB 2.0 Alpha is available now. As described in our CTO Paul Dix’s original release announcement for InfluxDB 2.0, we will be shipping regular updates as we add new features and fix issues. Please keep in mind...
Release Announcement: Telegraf 1.11.3
A new maintenance release for Telegraf is available now. Telegraf 1.11.3 release notes This maintenance release of Telegraf 1.11.3 includes improvements to the following plugins: Bind input (bind) Added missing rcode and zonestat metrics. Github Input (github) Fixed a panic when missing repo...
Multi-Data Source Flux Introduced in InfluxDB 2 Alpha 14
As our co-founder Paul wrote extensively in InfluxDB 2.0’s Alpha Release announcement, we believe Flux will play an important role in combining time series data with many different data sources. Flux’s first official multi-data store step is InfluxDB 2.0 Alpha 14’s...
IT Monitoring in the Era of Containers: Tapping into eBPF Observability
Article by Daniella Pontes and Luca Deri Containers are a game-changer for everyone. An abstraction between the infrastructure and the application layers, containers are a group play and concern IT system engineers, Ops, NetOps and DevOps. However, professionals in different roles...