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The Rebirth of InfluxQL in 3.0: A Quick Start Guide to Configuration and Usage

If we turn the clocks back to September 2013, we released InfluxQL alongside InfluxDB. InfluxQL is a SQL-like query language, specifically designed to query time series data. For many of our users, InfluxQL still remains the primary way they interact with InfluxDB. Based on this feedback, InfluxQL has been reborn in InfluxDB 3.0 alongside native support for the SQL query language. So what do I mean by reborn?

Data Independence Day: Taking Back Control of Your Data!

On July 4th we celebrate. We celebrate freedom of movement, freedom of assembly, removal of excessive taxation, and much, much more. But what about digital independence? Removing the tyrannical yoke of control over your observability data. Authoritarian vendors restrict access and movement; they dictate proprietary formatting and even limit what can be commingled with your data, then apply enormous tax burdens (i.e. license fees) just to store your data.

Stop Overspending and Optimize Your Cloud Costs with Advanced Anomaly Detection

“Time is money” couldn’t be truer than in managing cloud costs. By way of proactive anomaly detection, a chance is given to save time that could have been spent on issue recognition and resolution. Anomaly detection for the Cloud can be tricky since there can be changes in prices & data on billing history anytime. Not to mention, seasonality can mess things up as well.

Quick Fix: Updating Telegraf Configs to Send Data to InfluxDB 3.0

We recently introduced a new version of InfluxDB, rewritten from the ground up to improve performance across the board. As with any undertaking of this nature, developers will need to make some adjustments to their applications in order to incorporate the new database. We even faced this challenge internally. We had many Telegraf instances sending data to legacy versions of InfluxDB.

GitOps: An Introductory Guide

This post was written by Pete Osah, a software developer who is familiar with web technologies, passionate about new software technologies, and keen on developing ways to pass knowledge to others in a simple manner. Thanks to new technologies, developers can release software and features to production at a faster pace and with greater efficiency. But maintaining software dependability and integrity requires having the necessary tools in place.

Safeguarding Cryptocurrency Exchanges: The Power of Machine Learning Monitoring

Bitcoin and Coinbase have been in some hot water lately. How they handle cryptocurrency might not be legal or safe. The lack of regulations is causing concern from the government about potential criminal activity, fraud, and money laundering. The good news? Rules are being implemented for crypto exchanges to stop corrupt events from happening. Regulations like Know Your Customer (KYC) are an absolute must for exchanges to keep operating legally.

InfluxDB 3.0: System Architecture

InfluxDB 3.0 (previously known as InfluxDB IOx) is a (cloud) scalable database that offers high performance for both data loading and querying, and focuses on time series use cases. This article describes the system architecture of the database. Figure 1 shows the architecture of InfluxDB 3.0 that includes four major components and two main storages.