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Introducing Community Influx Templates

With InfluxDB 2.0 we added the ability to export a configuration of your entire stack, and import it again into another instance of InfluxDB. This includes your InfluxDB buckets, dashboards, queries, alerts and even Telegraf configurations. Since many people have the same or similar use cases, we wanted to provide a way for you to share your configurations with other users, and work together to enhance and improve them over time, just like you would any other open source project.

How 5G can pave the way for emerging technologies

From the discovery of fire to the development of the internet, society’s need to communicate and live as a social unit has inspired endless innovation. Soon we'll be witness to the pinnacle of wireless technology: fifth-generation wireless networks (5G). By allowing users to communicate and share data at breakneck speed, 5G could prove to be a paradigm shift in information consumption and sharing.

How Loki Reduces Log Storage

Several months ago, Bryan Boreham introduced a few changes to Cortex that massively reduced its storage requirements. The changes were quite simple and altogether had a nice benefit of using almost 3x less data storage than prior versions. Since Loki shares a lot of code with Cortex, could we use these ideas to the same effect? (Spoiler alert: Yes, we can!)

How to Monitor Your Host Metrics Automatically

Today, we’ll dive deep into monitoring hosts. The good news is that we’ll point you to some shortcuts on how to set up host monitoring in an easy way. The bad news is that we won’t be doing any percussive maintenance on any host. To monitor hosts, you have to set a few layers in place. Doing all this by yourself would be the hard way. You may ask: “How hard could it be?”.

5 Surefire Ways to Improve Your Product Reliability with Logging and Automation

In the fast-moving world of software development, as your product and organization grow and evolve, there are almost always competing priorities. Zeroing in on what is most important to your business in order to take it to the next level can at times seem like a non-stop process of trial and error. Oftentimes the customer who screams the loudest becomes a priority and gets the most focus.

SQL Server Agnostic Tuning Pack for Easy Tune Launched

Remember that old commercial from the eighties of the actor Chris Robinson saying “I’m not a doctor, but I play one on TV”? (Yes, I know it’s an old commercial, but the catchphrase has definitely outshone the original product placement.) Well, I would like to start this blog post by changing things up and saying that “I’m not a Database Administrator, but I like to play one on TV!” Or, um, well, at least I like to pretend to be a DBA. Sometimes.

Announcing Icinga for Windows v1.0

It is finally ready for launch – the first final release v1.0 of Icinga for Windows. The past months were quite challenging: Analyzing, troubleshooting and fixing issues reported by our awesome community and customers: Your support made it possible that we can celebrate the release of our new foundation for Windows monitoring. Scalable. Simplified. Extendable.

Dump Them for Sentry, Before They Can Break Up with You

Your customers are messaging, ordering, watching on a mobile device and — without a pause — carrying that experience to the web, desktop, tv, smart speaker, etc. Their expectations are that your service provides one seamless experience that goes with them where ever they are. That’s why you need resolution tools that work across organizational and technical boundaries. Now, maybe you’re tired of using an additional mobile focused tool when Sentry can cover both cases.