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One Click to Awesome: Deploying with the DigitalOcean Marketplace
We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve worked with DigitalOcean to bring the TICK Stack to their new Marketplace, providing all DigitalOcean users with a one-click TICK Stack. Getting started We’re going to assume you already have a DigitalOcean account. If you...
Speakers and Agenda Finalized for InfluxDays NYC 2019
InfluxDays NYC 2019 the world’s most comprehensive technical conference focused on time series data is coming to New York on March 13-14, and we’ve just announced the final lineup of speakers. The event will feature keynotes and discussions with IT leaders...
When You Want Holt-Winters Instead of Machine Learning
Machine Learning (ML) gets a lot of hype, but its classical predecessors are still immensely powerful, especially in the time-series space. Error, Trend, Seasonality Forecast (ETS), Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) and Holt-Winters are three classical methods that are not only...
InfluxDB: Reorganizing Data with the Pivot Function in Flux
If you’ve been following along with my Flux journey as I implement Flux queries with Rails and GraphQL, you’ll know that I’ve been using train data when implementing various functions in Flux. In order for the GraphQL gem in my Rails...
Using GraphQL with InfluxDB and Flux
In a previous post, we showed you how to make Flux queries in a Rails app. In this post, we’ll extend that knowledge to use GraphQL in a Rails app which leverages the power of Flux to query InfluxDB. This allows...
Why I Joined InfluxData - David McKay
Hi! My name is David McKay, and I just joined InfluxData as a Developer Advocate. <figcaption> David McKay</figcaption> Who Am I? I don’t want to bore you too much with the life-story, so I’ll keep this brief. If you wish to...
Flux Windowing and Aggregation
Today, we’re talking about queries. Specifically, we’re talking about Flux queries, the new language being developed at InfluxData. You can read about why we decided to write Flux and check out the technical preview of Flux. If you’re an InfluxDB user,...
Copyleft and community licenses are not without merit, but they are a dead end
Last Friday Confluent announced that they would be changing the license on some portions of their platform from Apache2 to The Confluent Community License. This comes on the heels of AWS’ recent launch at Re:Invent 2018 of a managed Kafka service....
A UX Review of Flux Joins vs. Pandas Joins
InfluxData recently released the latest versions of Chronograf and InfluxDB. With them comes the technical preview of Flux. Flux is the new query language and engine for time series data. The documentation for Flux can be found here. In a previous...
InfluxDB: How to Do Joins, Math across Measurements
If you’re part of the InfluxData community, then you’ve probably wanted to perform math across measurements at some point. You did some googling and stumbled on this GitHub issue 3552 and shed a small tear. Well, today I get to be...