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Choosing a Client Library When Developing with InfluxDB 3.0

A common question we get asked is “what client library should I use with InfluxDB 3.0?” This question isn’t as simple as it may seem. It can get confusing when deciding which client library to use while developing applications to write to and query from InfluxDB. There are numerous options to choose from and the answer may differ based on the following criteria: At first, this seems like an easy answer.

Harnessing Power BI to Empower Decision-Making and Project Management

Scattered data and information silos can severely hinder a business's ability to operate and steer projects effectively. This isn't speculation but fact. However, harnessing the power of business interline tools like Microsoft's Power BI can produce game-changing results regarding decision-making and, ultimately, most other aspects of project management. This post will guide you through how Power BI can transform realms of chaotic data into intuitive reports and dashboards that team members can understand and act upon.

Introducing the Splunk App for Behavioral Profiling

Splunk is the platform for a million use cases, used to investigate operational data across security, observability, fraud, business intelligence and many other domains. But, in my time at Splunk, I’ve come to realize that all of our customers face challenges that stem from the same core problem: Within exploding data volumes, finding the anomalously behaving entities that are most threatening to the resilience of their organization.

Teréga Replaced Its Legacy Data Historian with InfluxDB, AWS, and IO-Base

Teréga, a gas storage and transportation company in southwest France, manages a network of 5,000 kilometers of natural gas pipelines. The company’s mission is to accelerate the energy transition currently taking place, both at a territorial and a European level. It aims to extend a culture of responsibility to all its business and day-to-day activities.

Introduction to Klaw

This video goes over a few problems faced by Kafka based projects and how an open source toolkit like Klaw helps in addressing the issues. Klaw is an open source toolkit / a web application designed to automate the process of creating and managing Apache Kafka topics, authorizations, avro schemas and connectors. Useful links: ABOUT AIVEN Aiven’s cloud data platform helps your business reach its highest potential by making your data work for you.

Best Practices for Collecting and Querying Data from Multiple Sources

In today’s data-driven world, the ability to collect and query data from multiple sources has become a very important consideration. With the rise of IoT, cloud computing and distributed systems, organizations face the challenge of handling diverse data streams effectively. It’s common to have multiple databases/data storage options for that data. For many large companies, the days of storing everything in the singular database are in the past.

Monitoring Your Metrics with Aiven

In this tutorial, we'll explore the powerful monitoring capabilities offered by the Aiven platform. Monitoring metrics is crucial for ensuring the optimal performance and health of your databases. We'll dive into the various monitoring tools and features provided by Aiven, allowing you to track real-time metrics, analyze database performance, and gain valuable insights into your system. Whether it's monitoring CPU usage, query performance, or resource utilization, Aiven provides a comprehensive monitoring dashboard to help you stay informed and make data-driven decisions.

How to mitigate the challenges of data growth

Over the last decade, I’ve rarely met a data professional whose organization wasn’t experiencing data growth and making more demands of their data. We build and deploy new applications faster than we retire old ones, and new data is accumulating dramatically faster on our existing systems than our ability to decide to delete older information. Additionally, the ever-growing number of users and devices interacting with that data increases the strain on the infrastructure underpinning it.

The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: Federated Search Across All Major Cloud Providers and Native Support for Amazon Security Lake

The newly released Cribl Search 4.2 brings enhancements that ease data management in today’s complex, cloud-centric environments. This update provides comprehensive compatibility with all major cloud providers – Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, and Azure Blob Storage. It also ushers in native support for Amazon Security Lake. In this blog post, we’ll examine how new dataset providers enhance the value that Cribl Search delivers, out of the box.

Splashing into Data Lakes: The Reservoir of Observability

If you’re a systems engineer, SRE, or just someone with a love for tech buzzwords, you’ve likely heard about “data lakes”. Before we dive deep into this concept, let’s debunk the illusion: there aren’t any floaties or actual lakes involved! Instead, imagine a vast reservoir where you store loads and loads of raw data in its natural format. Now, pair this with the idea of observability and telemetry pipelines, and we have ourselves an engaging topic.