Category: Expert Articles

Why Time Series Data Matters

By Susannah Brodnitz What is time series data? As the world becomes more automated, sensors and applications need to make smarter decisions in real time, and time series data is becoming increasingly important. Time series data...

On Telegraf. Q&A with Samantha Wang

Telegraf has great community support, and developers contribute plugins to the project all the time. In fact, we recently recognized our 1,000th Telegraf contributor! Q1.  What is the open source project Telegraf? Telegraf is InfluxData’s data...

On InfluxDB Cloud. Q&A with Gary Fowler

“Time series engines are great for storing and retrieving information that are related to a specific point in time. Common use cases include IoT devices sending sensor data, financial/stock information, and event logs from web...