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Integrating Particle.io with InfluxDB Cloud

If you followed the tutorial I presented a couple of years ago about integrating Particle.io with InfluxDB and were unhappy, or simply couldn’t get it working, have I got a treat for you! Integrating Particle.io with InfluxDB Cloud is very straightforward and requires no outside services or customizations outside of what Particle Cloud already offers. Here are the steps to get it all working.

How to create maintainable and reusable Logstash pipelines

Logstash is an open source data processing pipeline that ingests events from one or more inputs, transforms them, and then sends each event to one or more outputs. Some Logstash implementations may have many lines of code and may process events from multiple input sources. In order to make such implementations more maintainable, I will show how to increase code reusability by creating pipelines from modular components.

This is the Single Most Important Business KPI You Probably Aren't Even Monitoring

Having spoken with many companies, I’ve learned that while they all monitor their application performance, infrastructure, product usage, conversion rates and a variety of other user experience parameters, very few monitor the actual transactions from their payment provider.

Connecting Ethereum

ETHDenver connects developers, technologists, cypher punks, coders, crypto-economists, designers and makers to build on Ethereum, making it the perfect place to debut Splunk Connect for Ethereum. The use cases we saw added observability to blockchains like Ethereum mainnet and sidechains in real time. As the event went on, use cases and requests continued to pop up (which you'll see below); the app was used to index not just ethereum mainnet, but also sidechains such as xDai and OST Mosaic.

FullStory - Enhancing Digital Experiences Building Relationships

Customer experience is a key factor in competitive differentiation in the digital economy. The online business model has changed, and today, the focus has shifted from brands to customers. It would not be an exaggeration to say that customer experience plays a central role in any business model.

Business Monitoring: If You Can't Measure It, You Can't Improve It

“If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it” …this quote by Peter Drucker and the philosophy behind it is a key driving force behind modern management and the introduction of BI solutions to support the scaling and increased complexity of businesses. Analytics tools were developed to enable metric measurement and business monitoring across large scale, complex systems and to enable continuous improvements of business performance.

Self-Service Analytics for the Shop Floor [Part 2] - A Practical Example using MQTT

In the first part of this blog article, I introduced key concepts surrounding data ingestion for the industrial Internet of Things, the role and importance of metrics and self-services capabilities for shop floor personnel. So let's see how this looks in practice and how the knowledge of a process or control engineer can be turned into action.