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EnerKey Reduces Energy Consumption in Commercial Buildings Using InfluxDB

Commercial buildings produce 16% of carbon dioxide emissions in the US, and the EPA estimates that 30% of the energy used by these buildings is wasted. Energy efficiency in commercial buildings is a vital aspect of the transition to greener systems worldwide to fight climate change.

Outer Joins in Flux

Joins are a common transformation in any query language, and as part of the effort to make Flux an increasingly valuable tool for our users, the engineers on InfluxData’s query team created, and continue to maintain, two separate join functions. And while these solutions have met some of our users’ needs, they both lack one key feature: support for outer joins.

Introduction to Cloud Native

User experience is the pinnacle of cloud technology. With cloud data centers handling 94 percent of all workloads, cloud optimization is vital. Users need fast, agile, scalable, and stable solutions over the long term. But how do you build these solutions? This is where cloud-native technology comes in. Cloud native computing provides the foundation for building, designing, running, and managing applications in the cloud.

July Monthly Product Update - New Resources to Get Started with InfluxDB and Go

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 wherever they are, to ensure their happiness, and accelerate Time to Awesome. This is the third in a blog series covering our product’s latest features — features that we think will save you time and effort when building with time series and InfluxDB.

Quick Start: Telegraf's Starlark Processor Plugin

After a mortgage payment, energy costs are typically the largest household expense. In my case it was an easy decision to install solar panels, but I wanted to perform in-depth analyses with historical data. Deploying monitoring sensors was straightforward; collecting and processing the raw data became the main challenge. Telegraf and InfluxDB are ideal choices for managing time series data. Although I had no prior experience, a Docker instance of Telegraf was onboarded in no time.

Kubernetes on the Edge: Getting Started with KubeEdge and Kubernetes for Edge Computing

Developers are always trying to improve the reliability and performance of their software, while at the same time reducing their own costs when possible. One way to accomplish this is edge computing and it’s gaining rapid adoption across industries. According to Gartner, only 10% of data today is being created and processed outside of traditional data centers.

Real-Time Energy Management with InfluxDB and eSoftLink IoT Platform

Smart energy IoT platforms are empowering consumers to track energy usage and even control spend based on their next bill’s forecast. Yet eSoftThings, a specialist in the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI), set out to push smart energy management even further, for both consumers and utility companies, through its IoT platform eSoftLink.

TL;DR InfluxDB Tech Tips: Migrating to InfluxDB Cloud

If you’re an InfluxDB user you might be considering migrating your workload to InfluxDB Cloud. You probably want to free yourself from the responsibilities associated with managing and serving your OSS account. Perhaps you are finding that you simply cannot scale your OSS instance vertically to meet your needs. Maybe you want to use all of the Flux functions that are available to you in InfluxDB Cloud.

The Return of the InfluxDB V1 Shell

The community has spoken and the demand was clear: “BRING BACK THE INTERACTIVE SHELL USED IN 1.X” So it’s back… It works with InfluxDB V2… and has some improvements. The interactive shell allowed users to write data and interactively query data using InfluxQL. For newer users, InfluxQL is the SQL-like query engine that was native to the first major version of InfluxDB.

The 5 Ws (and 1H) of InfluxDB Edge Data Replication

As more businesses generate and process data at the edge, the need to share data from edge nodes to a centralized cloud location increases. Replicating data from the edge to the cloud ensures consistency across an entire application and creates an uninterrupted historical record that preserves the critical context of time. Edge Data Replication (EDR) is a feature available in InfluxDB designed to address this challenge.