Directly embedding passwords and API keys into the code you write is a bad practice. Of course, everyone knows this, but I’ll be the first to admit that it still happens now and then. In the world of source control and shared codebases, leaking a password can be a huge problem that costs your team time and money. Of course, today many companies leverage a secrets management system to lower the probability of something like this happening.

So you’re interested in time series databases, and you decided to explore InfluxDB Cloud or InfluxDB v2. Perhaps you just created a free account or downloaded the binary, and now you’re playing around with the InfluxDB User Interface (UI) and learning Flux. The hardest thing for beginners to understand are the return results from a Flux query or Annotated CSV.

An effective SEO strategy requires you to create unique and SEO-friendly articles and blog posts consistently. This is the only way for you to make your blog seem relevant in the eyes of the search engines. But creating unique content is not always easy. Every content writer has to face at least some degree of writer’s block at some point in their writing journey. If you are going through the same problem and you are feeling stuck, then using paraphrasing tools can be quite helpful for you.

Adding annotations to your data is a great way to share context with other members of your team. In May, we added the ability to annotate individual points in your data. Today, we have added the ability to add ranged annotations to your dashboard graphs. We’ve also reworked some of the interactions with annotations based on user feedback so that they can be added quickly and easily. To learn more about working with annotations, check out our documentation.

Many of you are familiar with Splunk’s Machine Learning Toolkit (MLTK) and the Deep Learning Toolkit (DLTK) for Splunk and have started working with either one to address security, operations, DevOps or business use cases. A frequently asked question that I often hear about MLTK is how to organize the data flow in Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud.