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This article was originally published in The New Stack and is reposted here with permission. They require different approaches for storage and querying, making it a challenge to use a single solution. But InfluxDB is working to consolidate them into one. Time series data has unique characteristics that distinguish it from other types of data. But even within the scope of time series data, there are different types of data that require different workloads.

Here at InfluxData, we recently announced InfluxDB 3.0, which expands the number of use cases that are feasible with InfluxDB. One of the primary benefits of the new storage engine that powers InfluxDB 3.0 is its ability to store traces, metrics, events, and logs in a single database. Each of these types of time series data has unique workloads, which leaves some unanswered questions. For example: Luckily this is where our work within OpenTelemetry comes into play.

Time series data streams are often noisy and irregular. But it doesn’t matter if the cause of the irregularity is a network error, jittery sensor, or power outage – advanced analytical tools, machine learning, and artificial intelligence models require their data inputs to include data sets with fixed time intervals. This makes the process of filling in all missing rows and values a necessary part of the data cleaning and basic analysis process.

This article was originally published in The New Stack and is reposted here with permission. Selecting the tools that best fit your IoT data and workloads at the outset will make your job easier and faster in the long run. Today, Internet of Things (IoT) data or sensor data is all around us. Industry analysts project the number of connected devices worldwide to be a total of 30.9 billion units by 2025, up from 12.7 billion units in 2021.

As the complexity of modern applications continues to increase, so too does the demand for comprehensive observability solutions. Organizations looking to enhance their applications’ performance, reliability, and scalability need powerful tools that allow them to monitor, analyze, and visualize their infrastructure. One such tool is InfluxDB 3.0, a time series database designed to handle large-scale monitoring and analytics workloads.

Just like the classic Scott Bakula tv series, the new InfluxDB 3.0 is a quantum leap forward. Of course, for us it’s the evolution of the InfluxDB product suite. InfluxDB 3.0 is the designation for all products powered by the InfluxDB IOx engine. The latest product release in this new suite is InfluxDB Cloud Dedicated. Let’s jump into the basics for InfluxDB Cloud Dedicated. WHO: There are several different groups of users that should consider using InfluxDB Cloud Dedicated.

Open source project InfluxDB IOx becomes InfluxDB 3.0, the next-generation time series database powering all InfluxDB products. InfluxDB Cloud Dedicated added to suite of enterprise-grade cloud services.