The more your team can collaborate around data, the more useful that data is. This is especially true for time-series data that is increasingly the heartbeat of your business. When your entire team can utilize time series data, they know the pulse of your devices, your equipment, your customers, and your software -- and can act accordingly. In this webinar, product manager Russ Savage will show you three new ways for your team to collaborate around time-series data. First, InfluxDB Notebooks let you create and share computational narratives that combine live code, visualizations, and explanatory notes, which can output to your InfluxDB Dashboards, Tasks, and Buckets. You can use Notebooks to better document your downsampling, data processing, incident investigations, postmortems, and runbooks. Next, InfluxDB Annotations let you explain the why behind time series data trends. Annotations can be used to communicate how time series data is impacted by changes to software deployments (like configurations, upgrades, or outages), user behavior (Cyber Monday, deadlines), business activities (ad campaign, sales incentives), or external events (natural disasters, weather). With team members sharing contextual clues, you’ll more quickly determine root cause and restore services faster. Finally, learn how to apply gitops practices to managing InfluxDB configurations, dashboards, tasks, and alerts, as well as Telegraf configurations, ensuring better collaboration workflows between developers, SREs, and every stakeholder involved in time series collection, enrichment, and analysis.

1. Russ Savage, Product Manager
April 21st, 2021
Three Ways InfluxDB
Enables You to Use Time
Series Data Across Your
Entire Engineering Team

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InfluxDB Cloud is a
time series platform
for modern application
builders

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Developers today
rarely build
applications alone

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Developer collaboration happens across many tools
● Forums and discussion boards share common patterns and
help collaborate on solving problems
● Code reviews and pull requests provide ways to collaborate
on code being checked in
● Deploying applications usually requires collaboration with
multiple teams
● Operational monitoring usually involves teams looking at
dashboards and setting up alerting

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How can InfluxDB
Cloud help developers
collaborate?

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InfluxDB Cloud Web Interface
● The InfluxDB Cloud web interface includes many tools to help
developers build applications faster
● It includes...
○ A complete dashboarding system for operational monitoring of
your time series applications
○ The ability to build and schedule background processing tasks to
support analysis and downsampling of data
○ The ability to install pre-configured monitoring solutions (InfluxDB
Templates) to get up and running quickly

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How can we support
collaboration while
monitoring your
applications?

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Dashboard Annotations
● Add notes to graphs and provide context to your team
● Add, edit, delete as needed
● Annotations never expire
● Available in your InfluxDB Cloud accounts soon
● Ranged annotations, custom colors, support for more graph
types coming soon

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InfluxDB Annotations:
Share context quickly
via Dashboards

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How can we support
collaboration while
building in our
platform?

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InfluxDB Notebooks
● InfluxDB Notebooks unify the 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
● Never lose your work with autosaving

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Quickly find your metric, no experience necessary

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Coders get real time feedback as they build queries

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InfluxDB Notebooks:
Collaborate to
incrementally build
anything in the
platform

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How can we support
modern collaborative
GitOps workflows?

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GitOps describes a path towards a
developer experience for managing
applications based on CI/CD pipelines
and Git workflows
Source: Weaveworks: Guide to GitOps

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● All resources created in InfluxDB can be described as simple
text configuration files
○ Data buckets, Dashboards, Background processing Tasks, Labels,
Alerts, etc
● Influx Command Line (CLI) tooling allows users to easily apply
updates to existing resources
● Declarative patterns mean existing resources are updated
when possible, not duplicated
● Simple scripting brings powerful CI/CD integration
GitOps principles in InfluxDB Cloud

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Commits Code
PR Review & Merge
Automated Deploy
to InfluxDB Cloud
Clones Git
Repo
Makes changes
Tests locally
Repo:
company/influxdb-assets
InfluxDB OSS
Example GitOps Workflow
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InfluxDB Platform Technologies Used
● InfluxDB Command Line Interface (CLI)
○ Easy way to script against the InfluxDB APIs.
● InfluxDB Configuration Profiles
○ Save connections to different instances of InfluxDB (Cloud vs Dev)
● InfluxDB Templates
○ Preconfigured sets of InfluxDB resources to quickly get set up
monitoring a specific technology and share it with the world.
● InfluxDB Stacks
○ Artifacts for managing InfluxDB Templates that let you add, update,
and remove resources over time.

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InfluxDB Templates:
Collaborative
GitOps workflows
for your resources

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What’s next?

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Continuing Collaboration with InfluxDB Cloud
● Overlay event data on top of your metrics for operational
investigations and triaging across teams
● Unify the resource building experiences in the platform and
continue to focus on collaborative building of new resources
● Look to bring offline git workflows into the web interface of
the platform

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InfluxDB Cloud is
designed for teams
collaborating on time
series applications

27. Thank You
Learn more at influxdata.com
Russ Savage, Product Manager
russ@influxdata.com

28. We look forward to bringing together our
community of developers to learn, interact
and share tips and use cases.
10-11 May 2021
Hands-On Flux Training
18-19 May 2021
Virtual Experience
www.influxdays.com/emea-2021-virtual-experience/