Beyond the Industrial Black Box: Modernizing Your Data Historian with InfluxDB

Session Date: May 28, 2026
Time: 8:00am (PT) | 3:00pm (GMT) | 4:00pm (BST)

Data historians were built for plant-level SCADA historization, and for that job, they still work. But every new sensor, site, or analytics initiative exposes the same limitations: per-tag costs that spiral as you scale, siloed architectures that can’t consolidate across sites, and proprietary interfaces that block your data science and analytics teams entirely.

In this live demo, we will show how InfluxDB 3 fills that gap. Purpose-built for high-frequency industrial telemetry, with unlimited cardinality, native SQL, and flexible deployment across edge to cloud. No tag budgets. No proprietary SDKs. No integration tax.

What we’ll cover:

• Live technical demo: We’ll simulate a multi-site industrial deployment, streaming temperature, pressure, and vibration sensors using InfluxDB, Python Processing Engine, and Grafana
• Architectural patterns for historian augmentation or replacement
• Direct comparison of legacy historian capabilities vs. InfluxDB 3 for high-frequency industrial workloads

Cole Bowden

Senior Developer Advocate

Cole Bowden is a Developer Advocate at InfluxData, where he helps the Influx community learn how to best use InfluxDB. With six years of experience in the data space, Cole is an expert in data analytics and databases, and he was previously a software engineer at Meta. You can always find him on the InfluxDB Community Slack or on Discord as datacole.

Mike Devy

Solutions Architect, InfluxData

Mike Devy is a Solution Architect at InfluxData. He worked at Qualys as a production operations engineer, supporting data center server infrastructure and large enterprise customer deployments. Mike has over 15 years of systems administration experience.