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InfluxData Docker on ARM
In the beginning, Docker only supported amd64 and only ran on Linux. Later, Docker started supporting different architectures like Windows 64-bit and ARM. You could run Docker on these platforms, but the image support has been a work in progress. For...
InfluxDays is really happening and Grafana will be joining us!
It is hard to believe that our inaugural conference, Influx/Days is really happening this year! We are beyond excited, especially to announce that Grafana will not only be a key sponsor for this event, but will be speaking at the event...
The InfluxData Blog Challenge
At the end of my first week here, fellow twitter user Michael Greene posted the following tweet: I couldn’t resist the opportunity, so I added some incentive and offered to send him some swag if he completed the challenge. He got...
Mineflux: Building a Telegraf Plugin to Collect Data from Your Minecraft Server
Written by Ayrdrie Palmer & Adam Perlin Translated into Japanese by Atsushi Fujiwara Overview Our first week at InfluxData was spent learning InfluxDB, the database behind InfluxData. We were told how simple the other components were to use so we decided...
Telegraf Update - 1.3 and How to Write Plugins
We recently released the 1.3 version of Telegraf. Have a python script that grabs some custom metrics? Use the exec plugin. Have some logfiles that contain metrics? Use the logparser plugin. Need to measure API response time? The ping plugin has...
Metrics are Dead? Thoughts after Monitorama
Last week I attended Monitorama in Portland, Oregon. It’s an annual conference that focuses on… you guessed it, monitoring. Much of the content and sponsor focus is on DevOps Monitoring, but it’s not exclusively devoted to that. Many of the talks were applicable...
The Open Source Business Model is Under Siege
A few weeks ago I gave the Day 2 opening keynote at PerconaLive, a conference focused on Open Source Databases. My talk, titled “The Open Source Business Model is Under Siege,” is about the existential threat that Open Source Database companies,...
Prometheus + InfluxDB: Thoughts After the Austin Monitoring Meetup
At The Austin Monitoring Meetup last night it was great to see how Prometheus and InfluxDB can be used together. I’ll highlight some of the details from my talk, but first I’d like to point to some work that Julius Volz, one...
InfluxData and Docker
Getting ready for the 2017 DockerCon this past week has had me thinking about all of the different ways we use Docker at InfluxData. From our official images, backing InfluxDB Cloud, and in our everyday development work. Furthermore, we share a commitment...
Denver DevOps Days
We had a great DevOps Days in Denver! The venue had an excellent cloud theme, an energetic crowd, and a hard-working group of organizers, making for a smooth and fun conference. This DevOps Days continued the tradition of excellent talks and...