Tracking COVID-19 Data in South America Using Telegraf and InfluxDB

This article describes how to track COVID-19 data in South America using Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Chronograf. The author, a DevOps Engineer from Uruguay, created a dashboard to visualize the number of cases and deaths in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay. He used an API from Johns Hopkins University to fetch real-time data and stored it in InfluxDB. Telegraf was then used to convert the data into a format that could be consumed by InfluxDB. The author created queries using Flux, a scripting language built into InfluxDB, to visualize various metrics such as the number of confirmed cases and the change in new cases over time. The dashboard is available for download with configuration files.