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Notebook Sharing
It’s that season of sharing, and in the spirit of sharing, we have a new feature to share with you – notebook sharing. Now you can take your favorite InfluxDB notebooks and share them with whoever you would like. They don’t...
Monitoring Your Smart Home with InfluxDB and IFTTT
Do you have smart and IoT home devices switches, video cameras, doorbells, alarm systems or appliances? Do you want to monitor and send events from these devices to InfluxDB with zero coding? With IFTTT Webhooks, you can! Let’s dive in. What...
How to Monitor Your Internet Speed with Telegraf & InfluxDB Cloud
Complaining about your crappy internet speed is a tale as old as time. Given the rapid shift for so many of us to work from home, our internet speed now affects us on a daily basis. Where in my house should...
InfluxDB and GeoData - Emergency Generators
With the widespread use of LTE (Long Term Evolution), we are seeing more IoT devices come online in remote regions of our planet. Picture this scenario: A country is currently experiencing a national emergency due to an electrical grid failure. To...
TL;DR InfluxDB Tech Tips: API Invokable Scripts in InfluxDB Cloud
If you’re familiar with InfluxDB Cloud, then you’re probably familiar with Flux already. Flux enables you to transform your data in any way you need and write custom tasks, checks, and notification rules. But what you might not know is that...
InfluxData Community Awards Announced at InfluxDays North America 2021
We’ve just wrapped up InfluxDays North America 2021 as a virtual experience. Throughout the event, we got to hang out with our community and our engineers shared insights into their work and #InfluxDB best practices. InfluxDB users shared their expertise from...
InfluxData is Heading to AWS re:Invent
At the end of November, the InfluxData team will be hitting the road again for AWS re:Invent. We’re so excited to close out the year in Las Vegas with our community. We hope you’ll stop by and say hello to the...
How to Get Started with JavaScript and InfluxDB
This article was written by Nicolas Bohorquez and was originally published in The New Stack. Scroll below for the author’s picture and bio. Telegraf is the preferred way to collect data for InfluxDB. Though in some use cases, client libraries are better, such...
How to Parse JSON with Telegraf into InfluxDB Cloud
In Telegraf 1.19 we released a new JSON parser (json_v2). The original parser suffered from an inflexible configuration, and there were a handful of pretty common cases where data could not be parsed. While a lot of edge cases for parsing...
Time Zones in Flux
As a language for processing time series data, Flux has an important role in how we understand that data. As we create and process data, we do it for ourselves and others. The concept of time and how we as people...