Linux system monitoring is necessary to ensure uptime, indicate system resource usage, and show which apps are consuming what percentage of resources. Monitoring Linux thereby enables users to properly manage applications and ensure the system is in good health.

Several factors in recent years have increased endpoint vulnerability — from organizations’ need to make access to data more fluid, to threats targeting mobile device access and networks, to the growing work-from-home and work-on-the-go trends. Endpoints connected to a network — including remote devices, IoT devices, workstations, tablets, laptops and servers — create attack paths for security threats.

So you’re using InfluxDB Cloud, and you’re writing millions of metrics to your account. You’re also running a variety of downsampling and data transformation tasks. Whether you’re building an IoT application on top of InfluxDB or monitoring your production environment with InfluxDB, your time series operations are finally running smoothly. You want to keep it that way.

We are excited to partner with AWS and announce the availability of InfluxDB on the new Amazon Elastic Container Registry Public announced this week at AWS re:Invent. With this new registry, developers can now find their favorite open source products from within the AWS developer experience. At InfluxData, we believe it is important to bring our product — InfluxDB — to the platforms and ecosystems where our developers are building. And of course, many of our developers are building on AWS.

The growing popularity of Docker has led many enterprises to containerize applications. By 2022, more than 75% of global organizations will be running containerized applications in production, Gartner predicts, up from less than 30% today. Yet the shift to containers has posed new challenges to performing effective monitoring. As more applications move to the cloud and become containerized, the demand for dynamic container monitoring has become more urgent.

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.

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.

As you may know, InfluxDB is available in multiple forms, including InfluxDB Open Source and InfluxDB Cloud. Customers will sometimes ask us, “If I’m using InfluxDB Cloud, is there any reason I should also consider using InfluxDB open source?” It’s a fair question.

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! 👏

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.