InfluxDays 2019 NYC, Another Hit!
<figcaption> InfluxData CEO Evan Kaplan at InfluxDays NYC 2019</figcaption> InfluxDays NYC was my first InfluxDays, and to say I was impressed would be an understatement. After spending two days with community members and hearing about how they’re using our products coupled...
InfluxData Jumpstarts 2019 with New Funding, Customers, Community Growth and More
Coming off the heels of a record year in 2018, InfluxData experienced continued momentum in the first quarter of 2019. We have achieved amazing growth across the organization from new business wins to product enhancements and we are well on the...
Introducing Our New InfluxData Community Slack Workspace
We’re thrilled to announce that, starting today, we have a public Influx Community Slack workspace to continue our commitment to building both great open source projects and a strong community. With the new Slack workspace comes yet another opportunity for our...
Release Announcement: Telegraf 1.10.2
A new maintenance release for Telegraf is available now. Telegraf 1.10.2 release notes IMPORTANT NOTE: For anyone using the Grok Parser: String fields no longer have leading and trailing quotation marks removed in the Grok parser. If you are capturing quoted...
How to Write Points from CSV to InfluxDB
This blog has been updated since the time of writing. For the up-to-date version of this post, see this newer version. Telegraf is InfluxData’s plugin-driven server agent for collecting and reporting metrics. There are over 200 input plugins, which means there’s...
Why You Want Easy-to-Setup Grafana Dashboards
The list of reasons to adopt Grafana dashboards is long. Among other things, Grafana dashboards are excellent tools for gaining insight into time-series data. In addition, Grafana readily integrates with InfluxDB and Telegraf to make monitoring of sensor, system and network...
Release Announcement: InfluxDB 2.0.0 Alpha 7
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...
Publishing Data to InfluxDB from Swift
I’ve been a very busy man. It was only a few days ago that I wrote about a new InfluxDB library for writing data from Arduino devices to InfluxDB v2 and here I am again, writing about a new library for writing...
Writing Data from Arduino to InfluxDB v2
As InfluxData moves ever closer to releasing v2.0, it’s becoming increasingly important to be able to get data into InfluxDBv2, of course. Makes sense, right? Since the vast majority (like, indistinguishable from 100%) of my data comes from IoT devices, I decided...
Practical Uses of Cross-Measurement Math in Flux
I’ve been spending a lot of time lately with the 2.0 Alpha releases and I’m here to tell you: some of the new things coming are really, really cool! Especially for IoT. The one I’ve been using lately has been the...