Monitoring COVID-19 metrics has become essential as the Coronavirus pandemic continues to impact countries across the globe. Mitigating virus impact and spread requires ongoing tracking of metrics such as cases and fatalities. This is what the InfluxDB COVID-19 Monitoring Template does.

Last month we announced InfluxDB IOx (pronounced: eye-ox), a new Rust and Apache Arrow based core for InfluxDB. While InfluxDB IOx is a columnar database built on top of object storage, that’s only part of its role. In addition to query functionality, one of the big goals of InfluxDB IOx is to help manage the data lifecycle for time series data. This post will cover the design for how InfluxDB IOx plans to manage that data lifecycle.

Now that you’ve read through Top 5 Hurdles for Flux Beginners and Resources for Learning to Use Flux, you’re well on your way to being an advanced Flux user. This post includes some of the top hurdles for intermediate Flux users as well as solutions.

Are you new to InfluxDB v2.0 and Flux? Are you intimidated by learning a new time series scripting and query language? Perhaps you’re an InfluxDB v1.x user and you’re familiar with InfluxQL, and you’re unconvinced that learning Flux is worth your while? This two-part blog series aims to demonstrate the power of Flux and walk you through solutions to the top hurdles for both new and old InfluxDB users.

Linux system monitoring is necessary to ensure uptime, indicate system resource usage, and show which apps are consuming what percentage of resources. Monitoring Linux thereby enables users to properly manage applications and ensure the system is in good health.

Several factors in recent years have increased endpoint vulnerability — from organizations’ need to make access to data more fluid, to threats targeting mobile device access and networks, to the growing work-from-home and work-on-the-go trends. Endpoints connected to a network — including remote devices, IoT devices, workstations, tablets, laptops and servers — create attack paths for security threats.

So you’re using InfluxDB Cloud, and you’re writing millions of metrics to your account. You’re also running a variety of downsampling and data transformation tasks. Whether you’re building an IoT application on top of InfluxDB or monitoring your production environment with InfluxDB, your time series operations are finally running smoothly. You want to keep it that way.

We are excited to partner with AWS and announce the availability of InfluxDB on the new Amazon Elastic Container Registry Public announced this week at AWS re:Invent. With this new registry, developers can now find their favorite open source products from within the AWS developer experience. At InfluxData, we believe it is important to bring our product — InfluxDB — to the platforms and ecosystems where our developers are building. And of course, many of our developers are building on AWS.

The growing popularity of Docker has led many enterprises to containerize applications. By 2022, more than 75% of global organizations will be running containerized applications in production, Gartner predicts, up from less than 30% today. Yet the shift to containers has posed new challenges to performing effective monitoring. As more applications move to the cloud and become containerized, the demand for dynamic container monitoring has become more urgent.

We’d like to let you know that InfluxDB Cloud is now on AWS US East, also called us-east-1, based in northern Virginia. This is our third AWS region, after initially launching InfluxDB Cloud in AWS Oregon and later AWS Frankfurt. This brings InfluxDB Cloud’s effortless scaling, flexible usage-based pricing, AWS marketplace integration, and a broad range of AWS connectivity points to customers that want to manage their time series data in the eastern United States.