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October 2022

Getting Started with Python and Geo-Temporal Analysis

This article was originally published in The New Stack and is reposted here with permission. Working with geo-temporal data can be difficult. In addition to the challenges often associated with time-series analysis, like large volumes of data that you want real-time access to, working with latitude and longitude often involves trigonometry because you have to account for the curvature of the Earth. That’s computationally expensive. It can drive costs up and slow down programs.

Welcome to InfluxDB IOx: InfluxData's New Storage Engine

Two years ago I announced that InfluxData was working on a new core for InfluxDB, a project we named InfluxDB IOx. InfluxDB IOx is a cloud-native, real-time, columnar database optimized for time series data built in Rust on top of Apache Arrow and DataFusion. Today I’m excited to announce that we deployed our next-generation storage engine that’s built on InfluxDB IOx in our InfluxDB Cloud platform.

Import CSV Data into InfluxDB Using the Influx CLI and Python and Java Client Libraries

With billions of devices and applications producing time series data every nanosecond, InfluxDB is the leading way to store and analyze this data. With the enormous variety of data sources, InfluxDB provides multiple ways for users to get data into InfluxDB. One of the most common data formats of this data is CSV, comma-separated values. This blog post demonstrates how to take CSV data, translate it into line protocol, and send it to InfluxDB using the InfluxDB CLI and InfluxDB Client libraries.

Real-Time Embedded Linux Observability with Pantavisor and InfluxDB

This article was originally published on HackMD and is reposted here with permission. Presently organizations are unable to monitor millions of embedded Linux devices in real-time. With so many different architectures and device types, aggregating telemetry and metrics and viewing that data in a centralized analysis tool is problematic. Onboarding embedded Linux devices into a telemetry service so that metrics can be easily observed is a significant challenge.

Stop Trusting Container Registries, Verify Image Signatures

One of InfluxData’s main products is InfluxDB Cloud. It’s a cloud-native, SaaS platform for accessing InfluxDB in a serverless, scalable fashion. InfluxDB Cloud is available in all major public clouds. InfluxDB Cloud was built from the ground up to support auto-scaling and handling different types of workloads. Under the hood, InfluxDB Cloud is a Kubernetes-based application consisting of a fleet of micro-services that runs in a multi-cloud, multi-region setup.

InfluxDB Cloud Native Collectors, Enterprise and Industrial IoT Examples - Part 2

Learn how to deploy InfluxDB Cloud’s Native Collectors with Kepware and the Things Network. In Part 1 of the blog series, we discussed connecting Kepware to InfluxDB using the new InfluxDB Cloud feature Native Collectors! As promised, let’s now discuss how to connect an Enterprise IoT platform, The Things Network to InfluxDB. Before we get to the juicy tutorial let’s run through a quick reminder.

Product Update - Custom Data Retention Periods for Buckets Made Easy

We love to write and ship code to help developers bring their ideas and projects to life. That’s why we’re constantly working on improving our product to meet developers where they are, to ensure their happiness, and accelerate Time to Awesome. This week, we are covering a product release that we think will save you time and effort when using InfluxDB with data retention requirements.

Why Use a Purpose-Built Time Series Database?

For many workloads, using a time series database is a smart choice that saves time and storage space. Developers and companies have more database choices than ever. Choosing the right database for a project saves time when writing and querying data. As companies work with larger datasets to make increasingly intelligent and automated systems, efficiency is key. For many workloads, using a time series database is a smart choice that saves time and storage space.

Time Series Forecasting with Python and Facebook Kats

Time series analysis is the study of a sequence of data points and records that are collected over a constant period. The analysis indicates how a variable or a group of variables has changed and helps in discovering underlying trends and patterns. Time series data is generally used for forecasting problems by predicting the likelihood of future data based on historical information.

Product Update - Arduino Onboarding Made Easy

We love to write and ship code to help developers bring their ideas and projects to life. That’s why we’re constantly working on improving our product to meet developers where they are, to ensure their happiness, and accelerate Time to Awesome. This week, we are covering a product release that we think will save you time and effort when onboarding to time series and InfluxDB using Arduino.

Flux: The Key to Edge Data Replication with InfluxDB

EDR enables developers to use the full capabilities of InfluxDB at the edge. Developers also can use that same data in the cloud for different purposes. Flux is the data scripting and query language for the InfluxDB time series database platform, enabling useful features such as Edge Data Replication (EDR).

TL;DR Deep Linking Dashboards

If you’re an InfluxDB and InfluxDB UI user, you’ve almost certainly created dashboards. However, if you’re building dozens of dashboards in the InfluxDB UI, you might have come across the need to deep link related dashboards. In this tutorial we’ll learn how we can use the table view with Flux, string interpolation, and variables to deep link users to other dashboards.

Reimagining nmon Using InfluxDB

IBM engineer Nigel Griffiths built nmon in the 1990s to monitor operating system performance data for AIX. Since its original launch, Griffiths revisited and revamped nmon. For example, he built an open-source version for Linux. Despite drastic change in the very nature of computing and exponential growth in storage, memory, and compute power, it wasn’t until 2018 that Griffiths sought to completely re-write the tool and bring it into alignment with modern computer systems.