Building the Next Generation of Smart PLC's With the ctrlX CORE and InfluxDB
Program Logic Controllers (PLCs) have played an integral role in industrial automation since their initial creation during the 1960s.
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February 2024
Mastering Predictive Analytics: Powering Engines for Continual Insight
Predictive analytics are a powerful tool, enabling organizations to make informed data-driven decisions. These tools are far-reaching and can deliver impactful results, either in the long term, like supply chain management and overall equipment effectiveness, or in the short term, like anomaly detection. Let’s take a look at what predictive analytics are and how to power predictive analytics engines for continued, meaningful insight into your data and operations.
Time Series Data and OLAP: Why You Should Use InfluxDB for Real-Time Analytics
Picture a bustling control room at a major aerospace company, where engineers and executives monitor aircraft performance, analyze flight data, and make critical decisions in real-time. In this dynamic environment, the ability to harness the power of real-time analytics becomes paramount. This is where InfluxDB 3.0, the latest version of InfluxData’s time series database, delivers an innovative edge to organizations with time-critical analytics needs.
InfluxDB 3.0: The Ideal Solution for Real-Time Analytics
Despite changes in technology, culture, economics, or virtually any other factor imaginable, the adage ‘time is money’ remains relevant. When it comes to data analysis, the faster you can conduct analysis, the better. However, increasing data volumes across the board make it challenging to analyze and act on data in a timely manner.
Avoiding the Data Roach Motel with Open Source
It's your data. You should be able to do whatever you want with it. However, vendor lock-in can trap your data in a single solution, making it extremely difficult to switch to something that better meets your needs. When your data goes in, but doesn't come out—that's a data roach motel. Open source technologies, and solutions built with open source tools, enable organizations to take control of their data, giving them the freedom to put it into and take it out of whatever databases or solutions they see fit.
How Time Series Databases and Data Lakes Work Together
In the fast-paced world of software engineering, efficient data management is a cornerstone of success. Imagine you’re working with streams of data that not only require rapid analysis but also need to store that data for long-term insights. This is where the powerful duo of time series databases (TSDBs) and data lakes can help.
Using Time Series Data for Infrastructure Monitoring: Challenges and Advantages
Monitoring the performance and health of infrastructure is crucial for ensuring smooth operations. From data centers and cloud environments to networks and IoT devices, infrastructure monitoring plays a vital role in identifying issues, optimizing resource utilization, and maintaining high availability. However, traditional monitoring approaches often struggle to handle the volume and velocity of data generated by modern infrastructures. This is where time series databases, like InfluxDB, come into play.
Powering Real-Time Data Processing with InfluxDB and AWS Kinesis
Imagine a data engineer working for a large e-commerce company tasked with building a system that can process and analyze customer clickstream data in real-time. By leveraging Amazon Kinesis and InfluxDB, they can achieve this goal efficiently and effectively. So, how do we get from idea to finished solution? First, we need to understand the tools at hand.
Augmenting Your DBA Toolkit: Harnessing the Power of Time Series Databases
Database Administrators (DBAs) rely on time series data every day, even if they don’t think of time series data as a unique data type. They rely on metrics such as CPU usage, memory utilization, and query response times to monitor and optimize databases. These metrics inherently have a time component, making them time series data. However, traditional databases aren’t specifically designed to handle the unique characteristics and workloads associated with time series data.
Unlocking the Power of IIoT with Time Series Databases
This article was originally published on IIoT World and is reprinted here with permission. In the rapidly evolving world of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), organizations face numerous challenges when it comes to managing and analyzing the vast amounts of data generated by their industrial processes. Data generated by instrumented industrial equipment is consistent, predictable, and inherently time-stamped.
Time Series Data: The Core of Network Monitoring
When it comes to network monitoring, time series data is a transformative force, revolutionizing how network engineers monitor and manage their networks. By capturing and analyzing data points over time, time series data provides a detailed and dynamic view of network performance, enabling network professionals to identify trends, patterns, and anomalies that might otherwise go unnoticed.
Resources for Tasks in InfluxDB 3.0
If you’re an InfluxDB v2 user, you might be wondering what happened to the task engine in InfluxDB 3.0. The answer is that we removed it in order to support broader interoperability with other task tools. V3 enables users to leverage any existing ETL tool rather than being locked into the limited capabilities of the Flux task engine.
DronaHQ for Building Monitoring Applications With InfluxDB 3.0
DronaHQ is a cloud-based platform designed to simplify the process of building and deploying business applications. It serves as a low-code development environment, enabling users—even those with limited technical expertise—to create custom applications quickly and efficiently. The platform offers a range of tools and features, including drag-and-drop interfaces, pre-built templates, and integrations with various databases and APIs.