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Solving Runaway Series Cardinality When Using InfluxDB

In this post, you’ll learn what causes high series cardinality in a time series database and how to locate and eliminate the culprits. First, for those of you just encountering this concept, let’s define it: The number of unique database, measurement, tag set, and field key combinations in an InfluxDB instance. Because high series cardinality is a primary driver of high memory usage for many database workloads, it is important to understand what causes it and how to resolve it.

InfluxDB 2.0 Release Candidate Now Available

Today we announce InfluxDB 2.0 Open Source’s first official release candidate (RC). This represents a final version of the software as we move towards general availability. We appreciate all the feedback from our users over the last few years and realize that getting to this stage has taken longer than any of us predicted.

TL;DR InfluxDB Tech Tips - How to Use the CLI Locally to Access the Flux REPL and Write a Regular CSV to InfluxDB Cloud

In this post we share how to use the InfluxDB CLI with InfluxDB Cloud. This TL;DR assumes that you have registered for an InfluxDB Cloud account – registering for a free account is the easiest way to get started with InfluxDB.

TL;DR InfluxDB Tech Tips - How to Extract Values, Visualize Scalars, and Perform Custom Aggregations with Flux and InfluxDB

In this post, we learn how to use the reduce(), findColumn(), and findRecord() Flux functions to perform custom aggregations with InfluxDB. This TL;DR assumes that you have either registered for an InfluxDB Cloud account – registering for a free account is the easiest way to get started with InfluxDB – or installed InfluxDB 2.0 OSS. In order to easily demonstrate how these functions work, let’s use the array.from() function to build an ad hoc table to use in the query.

Webinar Highlights: How Texas Instruments Uses InfluxDB

It’s back to school season, and oftentimes, that means people are purchasing TI-84 calculators for their kids. But did you know that Texas Instruments makes so much more than calculators? 😁 Michael Hinkle, a Probe Engineering and Manufacturing Supervisor at Texas Instruments, recently presented on “How Texas Instruments Uses InfluxDB to Upload Product Standards and to Improve Efficiencies”.

Getting Started with Sending StatsD Metrics to Telegraf & InfluxDB

This tutorial will walk you through sending StatsD metrics to Telegraf. StatsD is a simple protocol for sending application metrics via UDP. These metrics can be sent to a Telegraf instance, where they are aggregated and periodically flushed to InfluxDB or other output sinks that you have configured. At the time of writing, we have 37 different output plugins supported.