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What's New in InfluxDB 3.5: Explorer Dashboards, Cache Querying, and Expanded Control

InfluxDB 3.5 is now available for both Core and Enterprise, along with updates to the new Explorer UI that make it easier to save, organize, and query your data. This release highlights the biggest updates since our 3.4 release, including Explorer Dashboards in beta, new cache querying capabilities, and stronger operational tools for managing clusters. InfluxDB 3 Core is free and open source, optimized for recent data, and licensed under MIT and Apache 2.

InfluxDB 3 Core: Open Source, Recent-Data Engine

Dive into InfluxDB 3 Core, an open source, high-speed recent-data engine. InfluxDB 3 Core is an open source, high-performance real-time data engine (MIT/Apache 2 licensed). It’s built for real-time monitoring, edge data collection and transformation, sensor alerting, and streaming analytics with simplicity and speed.

How Nexus BMS Uses Time Series and AI to Power Smarter Buildings

Monitoring equipment isn’t enough for today’s smart buildings; true value comes from being able to predict issues, optimize performance, and take action automatically. Traditional building management systems often fall short, limited to dashboards and alarms that only notify you of an issue after the fact. With the rise of open source hardware, modern databases, and AI-driven diagnostics, facilities can now move from reactive to proactive management.

Distinct Value Cache in InfluxDB 3

The Distinct Value Cache in InfluxDB 3 speeds up metadata queries and tag value lookups for faster, more responsive UIs. The Distinct Value Cache in InfluxDB 3 delivers sub-30 ms lookups for tag values and series metadata, making exploratory queries and UI dropdowns quick and responsive. By reducing latency on these common operations, it allows developers to build real-time monitoring and analytics tools without extra complexity.

InfluxDB 3 Enterprise: Deploy Your Way, Scale on Demand

InfluxDB 3 Enterprise is engineered for performance and designed for flexibility, delivering high-scale, production-ready time series data management with operational simplicity. InfluxDB 3 Enterprise is built on a cloud-native, diskless architecture that removes the limits of traditional storage. It’s easy to deploy, scales effortlessly, and eliminates the complexity of managing clusters so you can deploy your way and meet the unique demands of your environment.

Building Real-Time Data Pipelines with Kafka, Telegraf, and InfluxDB 3

When milliseconds matter and data never stops flowing, you need a pipeline that can handle high-velocity streaming data with reliability and scale. The modern streaming stack of Kafka, Telegraf, and InfluxDB 3 Core delivers exactly that. To give you a concrete example, this blog works with a fictitious use case: “Papa Giuseppe’s Pizzeria.” Every oven, prep station, and order in this pizza restaurant generates data. Our workflow looks like this.

Future-Proofing Your Historian with a Time Series Database

As technology scales and data volumes accelerate, organizations face a pressing challenge: how can they modernize data infrastructure without putting daily operations at risk? Data historians, specialized databases that capture and store time-stamped machine and sensor data, have long been the foundation for reliability and compliance. However, they were not designed for the openness and advanced analytics that modern workloads demand.

Data Historians vs. Time Series Databases: A Practical Path Forward

Industrial data strategy often feels like a choice: keep legacy systems or replace them outright. But neither extreme is ideal. Full replacements are disruptive and costly, while avoiding change leaves businesses stuck with tools that limit growth. The better path is incremental. Each organization has different needs, and modernization works best when you build on proven systems while adding new capabilities.