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InfluxDays Coming to London in June!
I can’t believe it has already been a month since our InfluxDays event in NYC. We had a brilliant time with our speakers, our developers, and you, the users of our fabulous open source projects! We have since posted the recordings...
Instrumenting Your Node/Express Application
This post will walk through the steps to instrument a sample nodeJS/Express application, collecting our metrics with Telegraf, and storing them with InfluxDB. A subsequent post will cover the exploration of our data and building out a dashboard with Chronograf. Why...
Why Should I Use a Time Series Database?
Time series data is special — not just in the unique data that it captures, but also in the ways we interact with that data. Maybe you’re starting to use time series data from sensors in your company’s thermostats (to finally prove...
Collecting Running Process Counts with Telegraf
Adding monitoring to your stack is one of the quickest ways to get visibility into your application, letting you catch issues more quickly and begin to make data-driven decisions about where to invest your engineering efforts. One of the most straightforward...
Monitoring the Kubernetes Nginx Ingress with the Nginx InfluxDB Module
In the process of moving some of our container workloads to Kubernetes we deployed the ingress-nginx project to have an Ingress controller that can instrument Nginx for incoming traffic to exposed services. The project itself is pretty well crafted, and it...
Monitoring Application Performance on the Frontend in the Age of Impatience
Keep Your Users Happy and Monitor Your Performance Monitoring application performance in the browser is often overlooked or ignored until an actual problem arises. We prioritize server-side monitoring and collecting metrics on all our different databases, but often let tracking of...
Flux (formerly IFQL) and the Future of InfluxData
With the big news coming out today about our Series C financing, I thought I should take some time to talk about what the future of InfluxData platform and InfluxDB holds. For our CEO Evan Kaplan’s perspective see here. To understand...
InfluxDB Markedly Outperforms OpenTSDB in Time Series Data & Metrics Benchmark
This blog post has been updated on February 6, 2018 with the latest benchmark results for InfluxDB 1.4.2 and OpenTSDB v2.3.0. To provide you with the latest findings, this blog is regularly updated with the latest benchmark figures. At InfluxData, one...
InfluxDB vs. Elasticsearch for Time Series Data & Metrics Benchmark
This blog post has been updated on July 17, 2020 with the latest benchmark results for InfluxDB v1.8.0 and Elasticsearch v7.8.0. To provide you with the latest findings, this blog is regularly updated with the latest benchmark figures. At InfluxData, one...
What Is Time Series Data and Why Should You Care?
Like many people, I have lived most of my life without ever hearing the phrase “time series.” It wasn’t until I was interviewing at a company that builds a Time Series Platform that I realized I need to Google it. I wish I...