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Simplifying InfluxDB: Shards and Retention Policies

I recently did a webinar on an Introduction to InfluxDB and Telegraf and in preparing for it, I came to the woeful realization that there are still a number of concepts about InfluxDB which remain quite mysterious to me. Now, …

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Instrumenting Your Node/Express Application: Viewing Your Data

This post is the follow-up to Instrumenting Your Node/Express Application. Here we will begin to explore some of the data that is being stored in InfluxDB and build out a dashboard in Chronograf. If you haven’t had a chance yet …

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Instrumenting Your Node/Express Application

This post will walk through the steps to instrument a sample nodeJS/Express application, collecting our metrics with Telegraf, and storing them with InfluxDB. A subsequent post will cover the exploration of our data and building out a dashboard with Chronograf. …

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Monitoring Application Performance on the Frontend in the Age of Impatience

Keep Your Users Happy and Monitor Your Performance Monitoring application performance in the browser is often overlooked or ignored until an actual problem arises. We prioritize server-side monitoring and collecting metrics on all our different databases, but often let tracking …

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