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New in Telegraf 1.18.0: Beat, Directory, NFS, XML, Sensu, SignalFX and More!
Last week we released Telegraf 1.18 with a range of new plugins including Elastic Beats, directory monitoring, NFS, XML parsing and some aggregators and processors to help with your data ingestion. All of these packages were written in Go 1.16.2. This...
Introduction to Giraffe
Giraffe is InfluxData’s graphing library, built to use and graph the data coming from InfluxData’s time series database, InfluxDB. Yes, there are other graphing libraries available; but ours is the only one purpose-built to graph line protocol without having to convert...
Getting Started with Time Series Data Science
Are you interested in performing time series forecasting or anomaly detection, but you don’t know where to start? If so, you’re not alone. There is an overwhelming variety of libraries, algorithms, and workflow recommendations for these tasks. As a Developer Advocate...
Stargazers and Trailblazers: It's Pi Day!
Pi Day is coming in two days on March 14! If you were hoping for a secret family pie recipe, I’m sorry to disappoint you. Sadly, I come from a family tree of terrible bakers who are too impatient to read...
TL;DR InfluxDB Tech Tips: Debugging and Monitoring Tasks with InfluxDB
With InfluxDB you can use Tasks to process data on a schedule. You can also use tasks to write custom alerts. However, sometimes your task will fail. In this TLDR, we’ll learn how to debug your task with the InfluxDB UI...
TL;DR InfluxDB Tech Tips — Time Series Forecasting with Telegraf
If you’re familiar with Telegraf, you know that you can easily configure this lightweight collection agent with a single TOML configuration file to gather metrics from over 180 inputs and write data to a wide variety of different outputs and/or platforms....
JSON to InfluxDB with Telegraf and Starlark
Data platforms or databases with sets of APIs for flexibly working with data are quintessential backbones for those who rely heavily on being able to change how they obtain data and work with their data over time. A good data platform...
Flux Training is Back — Grabbed Your Spot Yet?
Hands-On Flux Training is back by popular demand! As part of InfluxDays EMEA 2021 Virtual Experience, it will take place on May 10-11, 2021, the week prior to the conference – with only 50 spots available to ensure an ideal student-to-teacher...
InfluxDB Latest Tag Updated in Docker Hub
The latest InfluxDB OSS (version 2.0.4) has officially been released on Docker Hub! While this will allow a smooth upgrade path for both new and existing users of InfluxDB, we found out that some users were being unexpectedly upgraded to the...
The Future of InfluxDB OSS: More Open, Permissive with Complementary Closed Source
I was recently on the Changelog Podcast talking about Elastic’s recent change away from open source licensing. I’m at 1:02:45 to 1:24:03, but the whole thing is pretty interesting if you have time to listen. I talked about what we’re doing...