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If you’re a hardware hacker, or know a hardware hacker, you’ve no doubt heard of Hackaday.com. They always have super interesting content on hacks, projects, and you can even buy some cool boards, tools, and swag. But that’s not why I’m...
Release Announcement: Telegraf 1.7.1
A maintenance release for Telegraf is now available: Telegraf 1.7.1 release notes...
Running the TICK Stack on a Raspberry Pi
<figcaption> The Raspberry Pi is a great platform for the TICK Stack!</figcaption> Since its introduction in 2013, the Raspberry Pi platform has grown by leaps and bounds, gaining popularity and showing up in projects all over world, from quick hacks to...
Tips for Running the TICK Stack Using Docker
Docker? Docker docker docker. While the Docker buzz has faded a bit, replaced by new words like “Kubernetes” and “Serverless”, there is no arguing that Docker is the default toolchain for developers looking to get started with Linux containers, as it...
The Most Frequently Asked Questions: A Guide for the Overly Eager New InfluxDB User
Have you started an InfluxDB project haphazardly? Have you created a database, but still don’t really understand the relationship between shard group duration and retention policies? Are you starting to recognize that you barely let yourself digest the documentation before trying...
Will GDPR Pressure SaaS Vendors to Go On-Prem?
There has been a mad scramble to get data practices in order before and since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect May 25. The intent behind GDPR seems like a reasonable set of regulations to protect the user. However,...
Simplifying InfluxDB: Retention Policy Best Practices
Retention policies can often be tricky even at the best of times but when you’re dealing with time series data, setting up the appropriate retention policy to automatically expire (delete) unnecessary data can save you loads of time in the long...
Why I Joined InfluxData - Anais Dotis-Georgiou
Hello, my name is Anais Dotis-Georgiou, and I’m a new Influxer. My decision to join InfluxData as a Developer Advocate comes from going down a meandering path that led me to discover my love for data and Influx. The last 8...
Intro to DevOps: DevOps on a Smaller Scale
DevOps is a really cool intersection in tech where processes, tools and philosophy all collide. But the things that make it interesting are also the things that make it hard to understand and adopt. Being new to DevOps is hardat least...
"Metrics First" Approach to Log Analysis
We just completed an annual survey of our community members along with our InfluxDB Enterprise and InfluxDB Cloud customers. For those of you who participated in the survey, thank you for taking the time to submit your responses. We hope you...