COOL WAYS TO GET STARTED Join us for a live InfluxDB training to learn how to easily ingest at scale in a matter of seconds to help you build powerful time series based applications. Join our 45-minute demos with experts who will showcase key InfluxDB features and answer questions live from the audience. After attending this training, attendees will be able to: Use sample data sets to try out various visualization options Utilize the available data ingestion methods to construct a data pipeline to InfluxDB Leverage Notebooks to collaborate with team members Gain best practices for InfluxDB, Telegraf and Flux

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Event,
Name=Cloud New User Training,
Presenter1=Ignacio,
Presenter2=Mike
Slides=88
1631113200
October 13th 2021

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3. Agenda
● Sample Data
● Data Ingestion
● Visualization
● Flux
● Alerting
● Demo Time
● Q&A

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Platform providing real-time visibility into
stacks, sensors and systems
Visualization
Alerts
Triggers
Metrics
Logs
Traces
Events

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Sample Data - Demo Steps
1. https://docs.influxdata.com/
2. InfluxDB Cloud Docs
3. Sample Data
4. Air sensor
a. execute two line query
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1. NOAA NDBC data
2. Create bucket
3. Create task
4. Data explorer
Sample Data - write to bucket
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Data Ingestion
• Line protocol
• CLI
• Web UI
• Client libraries
• Telegraf plugins
• Cloud API

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Line Protocol
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• InfluxDB uses line protocol to write data points. A point includes:
• measurement
• tag set
• field set
• and timestamp
Schema design best practices

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Influx CLI
• To write data from the command line, use the influx write
command. Include the following in your command:

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Influx CLI Examples
• Single line:

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Influx CLI Examples
• Write line protocol from a file:

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Influx CLI Examples
• From an annotated CSV file:

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InfluxDB UI (the user interface for InfluxDB Cloud)

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InfluxDB v2 API client libraries

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Telegraf
• Easy to get started.
• Plugin-driven agent for collecting metrics.
• Plugin system allows new inputs and outputs to be easily
added.
• 200+ plugins – in GitHub Telegraf repo
• https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/v1.19.3/plugins

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InfluxDB Cloud API
• HTTP request to the InfluxDB API /write endpoint.
• Use the POST request method and include the following in
your request:

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Example - API Write Request
• Use the CURL command
• URL will depend on your Influx cloud region
• Use gzip if you want to use compression
Example (without compression):
curl -XPOST "https://us-west-2-1.aws.cloud2.influxdata.com/api/v2/write?org=YOUR_ORG&bucket=YOUR_BUCKET&precision=s"
--header "Authorization: Token YOURAUTHTOKEN"
--data-raw ”
mem,host=host1 used_percent=23.43234543 1556896326
mem,host=host2 used_percent=26.81522361 1556896326
“

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Telegraf

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Plugin Types
• Input - collect metrics from the system, services, or
third-party APIs
• Output - write metrics to various destinations
• Aggregator - create aggregate metrics such as mean, min,
max, quantiles, etc.
• Processor - change the data that Telegraf is collecting

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Key Points When Using Telegraf
• The Telegraf agent must be installed on a client within your
infrastructure.
• Must have a Telegraf configuration file
• Use the InfluxDB UI
• Use the influx CLI
• Create a custom Telegraf configuration

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Visualization
• Dashboards
• Notebooks
• Dashboards Annotations
• Tenant Observability

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Dashboards
Visualization
● Goal is to visualize the information that is
ingested on InfluxDB Cloud
● Several types of graph already included
in the platform to show the information in
the right way
● Powerful enough to analyze historical
and future (HoltWinters) information
● View multiple related resources in a
single view

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Notebooks
Teams/ Collaboration
● Goal is to provide a single consistent
building experience in our platform
● Designed to allow teams to incrementally
build queries or background processing
tasks together
● Flexible enough to guide new users and
unblock power users
● View multiple related resources in a
single view
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Dashboard Annotations
Teams/ Collaboration
● Goal is share context in dashboards
● Add, edit, delete as needed
● Annotations never expire
● Ranged annotations, custom colors,
support for more graph types coming
soon
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Tenant Observability
Make it easier to build on the platform
● Goal is to provide self-service access to
usage and operations:
○ Usage
○ Cardinality
○ Rate limit events
○ Write errors
○ Query Log
● User configurable templates for
dashboards & alerts
● Available on all cloud accounts shortly
Now
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Community Templates
The best path to start fast
● If you going to do system monitoring, this is fast
and best way to start
● Built by subject matter experts (you)
● Install 100s of assets with a single command
● Quickly move from Data to knowledge
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Signing Up

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Data Acquisition/Telegraf: Roadmap items
Near Term Medium Term Long Term
– Bulk data migration
into Cloud
– Cloud Native Data
Ingestion in Cloud
– Telegraf Assistant in
InfluxDB Cloud UI
– Logging
improvements
– Telegraf 2.x
*Near = this quarter; medium = ~6months, long= +/-year

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Flux: Work with data where it resides
12+ relational database integrations:
Amazon Athena Amazon RDS Google Bigtable Google BigQuery
PR in review

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Flux notification endpoints are steadily expanding

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Demo Time
Weather collection using Python InfluxDB
Client

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Questions?

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