August 2017 Summaries

InfluxData has been recognized as an Advanced tier Technology Partner in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network, a designation that recognizes its Time Series Platform on AWS with proven results and customers. The company's platform is used by over 200 customers who leverage AWS to power their modern Time Series Platforms. InfluxDB Cloud, a fully supported managed and hosted version of the platform, enables customers like tado° to scale their infrastructure while ensuring low latency and high throughput for their overall solution.

The author of the text suggests that monitoring key metrics can help keep a Graylog server operational, allowing log data to remain available and accessible. The recommended core metrics include disk IO utilization, available disk space, CPU usage, memory usage, and available file descriptors. Available disk space is considered the most critical metric, as running out of it could lead to serious issues. The author encourages readers to review these metrics and gather them using InfluxDB and the Graylog Telegraf plugin.

tado°, a German company that offers smart home automation solutions, has developed an innovative product that uses InfluxDB to collect and analyze data from their thermostats, enabling them to provide efficient energy consumption and a comfortable living environment for their customers. The system collects household temperature thresholds, geo-location data, and temperature readings from the thermostats, which are then used to adjust the temperature according to the user's location and preferences. To support this interaction, tado° uses InfluxDB queries to retrieve the necessary data, including continuous temperature readings and discrete state changes (home/away). The company has optimized their queries to improve performance, reducing query latency from 10 requests per second to 200x faster, while also ensuring data retention of up to 12 months. The tado° case study showcases their journey from creating a MySQL prototype to building a production-ready solution using InfluxData, highlighting the benefits of using InfluxDB for real-time data analysis and efficient query performance.

InfluxDays 2017 will be held in San Francisco on November 14, 2017, featuring a post-conference workshop on DevOps and IoT topics. The conference aims to bring together passionate speakers who can appeal to a technical audience, focusing on topics such as building applications with anomaly detection and machine learning on time-series data. InfluxDays is the first event in a worldwide series of conferences covering software tools and technologies related to metrics and events or time-series data, offering a unique opportunity for developers to learn from industry experts and network with peers.

InfluxData has released an updated version of its cloud service, InfluxDB Cloud, which includes stronger visualization and control capabilities. The new version, 1.3, introduces enhanced visualization experience via Chronograf, integrated anomaly detection and alerting, and usage-based storage with automated backups. These updates aim to provide developers with a more streamlined onboarding experience and the ability to incorporate advanced features into their applications. With InfluxDB Cloud, customers can now manage their data, monitor performance, and scale with their business, all while focusing on their core competencies. The updated platform is fully managed by InfluxData, ensuring that customers have access to the latest software and optimized clusters.

The InfluxData Blog Challenge` was initiated by Michael Greene, who completed a blog series on smart devices in just one weekend, impressing the author of the original post with his productivity. The author reciprocated by offering swag to anyone who completes a similar challenge using the TICK Stack, which includes Telegraf, InfluxDB, Chronograf, and Kapacitor. The author is now challenging others to complete a project using the TICK Stack and share their progress on Twitter for a chance to receive swag and be featured on the Built With InfluxDB page.

Mineflux is a Telegraf plugin that collects data from Minecraft servers and writes it into InfluxDB, allowing for visualization in Chronograf. The plugin uses the RCON protocol to gather data from the server's scoreboard, which tracks player achievements such as kills, deaths, and jumps. To set up the plugin, users need to install InfluxDB, Telegraf, and Chronograf, configure the Telegraf service with Minecraft plugin options, and start the Telegraf service with the plugin enabled. The plugin provides a minimal interface that is easy to build around, making it simple for users to collect data from their own Minecraft servers and visualize it in Chronograf.

I'm Plushcap, your AI assistant. Here's a summary of the text in one paragraph: The author, an IoT expert, joined InfluxData, a Time Series Database company, to utilize their platform for handling vast amounts of data from IoT deployments. The IoT is not just about devices but rather about collecting, analyzing, and taking action based on data, which aligns with InfluxDB's strengths in ingestion, real-time analysis, and taking action based on data. This made it a perfect fit for the author's skills and goals. Additionally, the company's core values resonated with the author, making them an excellent choice to join the team, which is currently hiring.