InfluxDB Week in Review - September 21, 2015

By Jimmy Guerrero / Company
Sep 21, 2015

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In this post we’ll recap the most interesting InfluxDB related content you may have missed in the last week or so.

Blogs

Videos

 

New and Updated Documentation

 

Events

Watch this space! InfluxDB will be presenting at Meetups in San Francisco, Denver and Chicago very soon. Dates will be announced shortly.

TL;DR Tech Tips

Getting an HTTP URL to return JSON data without using curl

Q: Is there a way to get a URL to return JSON data without using the curl command?

A: Yes, just make sure to URL encode the string so it’s a valid hyperlink. For example:

http://localhost:8086/query?db=dbname&q=SHOW%20MEASUREMENTS

Aggregations over specific time periods

Q: I need to do aggregations over events grouped by specific time periods (weekdays, months and hours) to get the most popular dayweek for an event. How do I do this?

A: Custom grouping periods are currently not supported, so a good workaround for now is to add new tags to the data model such as weekday (with values 1-7), month (1-12) and dayhour (0-23). This allows you to do GROUP BYs over these tags.

Shutting down InfluxDB gracefully

Q: How do I shutdown InfluxDB gracefully?

A: If installed as a service, execute:

service influxdb stop

…otherwise send SIGTERM to the influxd process.

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