Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

November 2020

InfluxDB Cloud is on AWS US East

We’d like to let you know that InfluxDB Cloud is now on AWS US East, also called us-east-1, based in northern Virginia. This is our third AWS region, after initially launching InfluxDB Cloud in AWS Oregon and later AWS Frankfurt. This brings InfluxDB Cloud’s effortless scaling, flexible usage-based pricing, AWS marketplace integration, and a broad range of AWS connectivity points to customers that want to manage their time series data in the eastern United States.

Achieve Better Observability into AWS Services with the AWS CloudWatch Monitoring Template

Amazon CloudWatch — Amazon’s built-in infrastructure monitoring tool — monitors your Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources and the applications you run on AWS in real time. Here’s what you can do with this tool and how to access AWS CloudWatch monitoring dashboards.

Community Highlight: How to Build an InfluxDB Template

For the last few months, I have been actively contributing to the InfluxDB community by building InfluxDB Templates for InfluxDB 2.0. InfluxDB is the purpose-built time series database used for metric collection and storage. Let’s build an InfluxDB Template to monitor PostgreSQL together! 👏

Ronald McCollam | Flux Queries in Grafana 7 | InfluxDays

In this session, Ronald shows a few new features of Grafana 7, focusing on the new native Flux query support in Grafana. He shows you how you can query with both Flux and the older InfluxQL support, using both side by side to ease migration. As a bonus, you see how to combine Flux queries with other data to perform advanced analytics and joins to truly understand your entire environment!

Air Quality Monitoring Made Easy with the InfluxDB Air Quality Monitoring Template

Air quality monitoring is important as poor air quality is responsible for an estimated 60,000 premature deaths in the United States each year, and annual costs from air pollution-related illness are estimated at $150 billion. Air quality monitoring can help track and guide action to reduce air pollution, which can cause short-term and long-term health effects for children, older adults, and people with heart disease, asthma, and other respiratory conditions.

Paul Dix [InfluxData] | Opening Keynote | InfluxDays Virtual Experience NA 2020

In this keynote, InfluxData Founder and CTO Paul Dix shares updates on InfluxDB and Flux and announces an exciting new open source project, InfluxDB IOx — a powerful storage engine designed to execute increasing query workloads over time. InfluxDB IOx lifts restrictions on cardinality, data size and cluster size – expanding the possibilities for workloads across thousands of servers and petabytes of data.

Barbara Nelson | How Can I Put That Dashboard in My App? | InfluxDays

Many users love using the InfluxDB UI to visualize their time series data in a variety of different graphical representations. In this session, Barbara Nelson will show how to use Giraffe (the React-based visualization library powering the data visualizations in InfluxDB 2.0 UI) to visualize your time series data within your own app. You can bring the power of our visualization tools to your users, directly in your app, instead of requiring them to login to the InfluxDB UI to see a visual representation of your data.

InfluxData advances possibilities of time series data with general availability of InfluxDB 2.0

SAN FRANCISCO — November 10, 2020 — InfluxData, creator of the time series database InfluxDB, today announced the general availability of the next-generation open source platform for time series data, InfluxDB 2.0. Developers can now ingest, query, store and visualize time series data in a single unified platform, leverage new tools and integrations, and use familiar skills — making it faster and easier than ever to develop and deploy modern time-based applications.

InfluxDB 2.0 Open Source is Generally Available

Today, we are proud to announce that InfluxDB Open Source 2.0 is now generally available for everyone. It’s been a long road, and we couldn’t have done it without the amazing support and contributions of our community. This marks a new era for the InfluxDB platform, but it truly is just the beginning. Before we talk about the future, let’s take a look at some of the amazing new capabilities our team has been working on.

Announcing InfluxDB IOx - The Future Core of InfluxDB Built with Rust and Arrow

On November 12, 2013, I gave the first public talk about InfluxDB titled: InfluxDB, an open source distributed time series database. In that talk I introduced InfluxDB and outlined what I meant when I talked about time series: specifically, it was any data that you might ask questions about over time.