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What the Pivot() is Going On with the MQTT Plugin?

The MQTT Consumer Plugin is one of our most widely used input plugins for Telegraf. If you need a little bit of background, then I highly recommend checking out the following: I plan to release an MQTT best practices blog soon, but we thought this plugin partnership was too good not to talk about now.

Monthly Product Update - Edge Data Replication and Sample Apps for IoT & Node.js

We love to write and ship code to help developers bring their ideas and projects to life. That’s why we’re constantly working on improving our product in sync with developer needs to ensure their happiness and accelerate time to awesome. This is the second in a blog series covering our product’s latest features — features that we think will save you time and effort when building with time series and InfluxDB.

InfluxDB Named a Leader in G2's Summer Grid Report for Time Series Databases

Industry-leading time series platform recognized for ease of setup and user satisfaction SAN FRANCISCO, June 30, 2022 – InfluxData, creator of the leading time series platform InfluxDB, today announced it has been named a leader in the G2 Grid for Time Series Databases, as well a leader within the inaugural Momentum Grid® Report for Time Series Databases in the Summer 2022 ratings from G2, the world’s leading business solution review platform.

TL;DR Replication from Edge to Cloud with InfluxDB

Depending on your available resources, data analysis can take place at the edge or in the cloud, but businesses don’t need to choose one location over the other. There are benefits to giving the edge autonomy to collect, process, and act on data locally. Data replication helps maintain edge autonomy and makes it easier for users to get the data they need, where they need it.

MQTT vs Kafka: An IoT Advocate's Perspective (Part 3 - A Match Made in Heaven)

So here we are…the final chapter. In Part 2 of this series, we started to drill down into some of the concepts that make Kafka great. We concluded that although terminology between MQTT and Kafka was similar (for example topics), they behaved quite differently under the hood. We also took a brief overview of Kafka Connect and how we can use some of the enterprise connectors to stream our data to other platforms. Yet we did learn that Kafka does have some shortfalls.

Spinning Time Series into Efficient Wind Power

Operating sustainably and promoting green practices can be more complex than you imagine. The benefits of sustainable practices can be significant for businesses, people and the planet. Companies need to ensure that they’re achieving those benefits in a way that complies with established rules and regulations to maximize the impact these initiatives have.

Deleting Production in a Few Easy Steps (and How to Fix It)

It’s the type of nightmare that leaves developers in a cold sweat. Imagine waking up to a message from your team that simply says, “We lost a cluster,” but it’s not a dream at all. InfluxDB Cloud runs on Kubernetes, a cloud application orchestration platform. We use an automated Continuous Delivery (CD) system to deploy code and configuration changes to production. On a typical workday, the engineering team delivers between 5-15 different changes to production.

Matplotlib Tutorial - Learn How to Visualize Time Series Data With Matplotlib and InfluxDB

A time series is a sequence of data points (observations) arranged chronologically and spaced equally in time. Some notable examples of time series data are stock prices, a record of annual rainfall, or the number of customers using a bike sharing app daily. Time series data exhibits certain patterns, such as the highs and lows of hotel prices depending on season.

Getting Started with OpenTelemetry for Observability

This article was published in The New Stack. For most developers, software development means there is an API for almost everything, hardware is provisioned via the cloud and the core focus is on building only the features most crucial to your business. Of course, all these integrations and modern distributed architectures create their own set of problems. Having full insight into your application has become even more important and is now commonly known as observability.

InfluxData Announces InfluxDB Edge Data Replication

SAN FRANCISCO, June 15, 2022 – InfluxData, creator of the leading time series platform InfluxDB, today announced Edge Data Replication, a new capability for centralized business insights in widely distributed environments. Edge Data Replication enables developers to collect, store and analyze high-precision time series data in InfluxDB at the edge, while replicating all or subsets of this data into InfluxDB Cloud.