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How to Time Your Data Collection with Telegraf Agent Settings

Many Telegraf and InfluxDB users often spend a lot of time finding that perfect balance of getting the data they want in while not writing in too much data that they have to deal with unnecessary data in their database. This blog post will give you a better understanding of Telegraf’s data collection settings and help you fine-tune your configuration.

Modernizing Network Monitoring with InfluxDB and Telegraf

This article was originally published in The New Stack. As the technology landscape continues to change at a rapid pace, enterprise companies are in a rush to catch up and modernize their legacy IT and network infrastructure to capture the benefits of newly developed tools and best practices. By adopting modern DevOps techniques, they can reduce their operational costs, increase the reliability of their services and improve the overall speed and agility at which their IT teams are able to move.

WP Engine Uses InfluxDB to Power Observability on a Global Scale

The WP Engine platform provides brands the solutions they need to create remarkable sites and apps on WordPress that drive their business forward faster. It hosts over 1.5 million websites, serving over 175,000 customers in more than 150 different countries, and processes 5.2 billion requests per day. In total, WP Engine’s footprint comprises about 8 percent of the entire web.

InfluxData Wins Comparably Awards for Best Company Outlook and Best Engineering Team

Annual awards recognize companies based on workplace culture ratings from current employees SAN FRANCISCO, April 6, 2022 – InfluxData, creator of the leading time series platform InfluxDB, today announced it has won awards for Best Company Outlook and Best Engineering Team from Comparably, a leading workplace culture and corporate brand reputation platform.

TL;DR InfluxDB Tech Tips: Converting InfluxQL Queries to Flux Queries

If you’re a 1.x user of InfluxDB, you’re most likely more familiar with InfluxQL than you are with Flux. To gain a deep understanding of Flux, it’s important to understand: However, you can still use Flux without studying those topics. In this TL;DR, we’ll convert common InfluxQL queries into Flux and identify patterns between the two languages to help you get started using Flux more easily if you come from a InfluxQL or SQL background.

InfluxData Recognized for Industry Leadership in 2022 Data Breakthrough Awards

InfluxDB wins Best Use of Data for IoT Applications category SAN FRANCISCO, March 29, 2022 – InfluxData, creator of the leading time series platform InfluxDB, today announced InfluxDB has been named a winner in the Data Breakthrough Awards for the Best Use of Data for IoT Applications category. Conducted by Data Breakthrough, an independent market intelligence organization, the awards recognize the top companies, technologies and products in the global data technology market today.

Where Will Process Historians Fit in the Modern Industrial Technology Stack?

When Rolls Royce Power Systems recently needed to improve its operational efficiency within its manufacturing plants, it didn’t expand its use of a legacy process historian or purchase historian connectors to export data to their business intelligence systems. Instead, it decided to go with a modern time series database, InfluxDB. Graphite Energy, another customer we featured in our recent IIoT announcement, also chose InfluxDB over the legacy process historian vendors. Why?

Mist Clears the Way for Multicloud Observability

A multicloud strategy is a necessity for modern businesses, as the recent AWS outages made clear, but managing this infrastructure remains a huge challenge. Infrastructure management teams have long struggled to juggle diverse technology solutions, policies and services to get access to a point-in-time view of their resources. The result is either waste through overprovisioning or huge overheads for nitpicking manual management and repetitive tasks.