1. Tim E. Hall
VP, Products
InfluxData
November 2020
InfluxDB Roadmap
@thallinflux

2. InfluxDB 2.0 OSS is now
generally available!
https://community.influxdata.com
Really!

3. Next Steps
InfluxDB Enterprise

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Unlock access to all your time series data
Flux
● Adopt latest APIs for read and write
● Leverage latest clients - 10 different languages and growing
● Prepare for the future
2.0 API Compatibility & Client
Libraries
InfluxDB
Enterprise
1.8
Access to data via
Flux & future
proofed APIs
● Begin taking advantage of the language through query access
● Selectively reduce external code

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InfluxDB Enterprise: What’s Next?
Expanded Ops Metrics Flux Intelligent Rollups
– Finer grained metrics
including
• data size on disk per
measurement
• cardinality per
measurement
• points per
measurement/field
(absolute number
and/or rate of change
within a 5min window)
• total number of values
within those tags
(count) & values within
those tags
– Advance to current
version
– Deliver performance
improvements
– Expose operational
controls
• memory
• concurrency
– Stretch goal
• Automatically create
downsampled metrics
on a per database basis
• Queries which extend
beyond supported data
range automatically
access downsampled
data

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Kapacitor 1.6
• Goal is to enable a path for Kapacitor users to continue to
leverage that investment with InfluxDB 2.x
• Flux Task engine side-by-side with TICKscript
– Expose 2.0 Task API to interact with Flux scripts
• No auto convert of TICKscripts to Flux

7. Telegraf and Beyond
Data Acquisition

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Self-service export and import
Enable users to define object store locations within their CSP account.
Bulk Import
Line protocol
CSV
TSM files
Parquet
Self-Service
Backup
Bucket backup
(restore to OSS or Cloud)
-- or --
Export to Parquet

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Data Acquisition
Agent-based Cloud Native

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Data Acquisition: Cloud Native
Within a CSP, connect your InfluxDB Cloud instance with
messaging service of your choice
Examples: Azure EventHub, Google Pub/Sub, AWS Kinesis
Direct ingest using supported formats to specific buckets

11. What we’ve learned during our 1st year of operating InfluxDB Cloud
Teams: Building and Administering Applications

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Developers:
Building New
Applications
Ops:
Troubleshooting &
Understanding
Who’s out there?
Teams:
Sharing and
Collaborating

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Teams:
Sharing Expertise via InfluxDB Templates
UI-based Consumption
43 InfluxDB Templates
and counting
Covering:
● Networks,
● Infrastructure,
● Software,
● IoT,
● Games,
● and more...
https://github.com/influxdata/community-templates

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Notebooks
Taking inspiration from data science tooling
● Eliminate unnecessary “re-analysis”
● Share context with team members
Dashboard Annotations
Teamwork
makes the
dream work...
● Show and share your work
● Step-by-step breakdown of data analysis
● Flexible approach for layering in different tools, languages and techniques
● Allows for a broadest possible definition of resources

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Developers: Tooling and Client Libraries
https://github.com/influxdata/flux-lsp-cli

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Reference Application
IoT Center: Capturing Common Use Cases
● Breakdown of Application components
● Detailed examples of working with APIs
● Guidance for building custom applications
New Documentation: Developer’s Guide
Build by Example
● Device registration and token handling
● Custom visualization
● Administration and configuration
● Multiple implementations starting with Node.js

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Developers: Evolution of Tasks
Named Functions: Flux
Schedule
Triggering
(via Events)
Tasks: Flux
Parameterized /
Reusable
Remote Invocation
Scheduling Web hook
...to Start

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Ops: Administer Your App
Operational Status:
Health of Tasks
Limits Visibility:
Cardinality, where?
Writes
Activity Feed:
Access,
Changes

19. Connecting the Edge with InfluxDB Cloud
OSS at the Edge

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Example Deployments
Sensor
Device
Software
Stack
etc.
Local Environment(s)
Sensor
Device
Software
Stack
etc.
(native
push)
Local Environment(s)
Sensor
Device
Software
Stack
etc.
Local Environment(s)
Interstitial Aggregation
Challenges to Address
● Single pane of glass observability
● Single pane of glass
administration
● TSDB integration
● Metadata integration
● Data transformation

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Connect the OSS
Edge(s) to the
Cloud
InfluxDB OSS to InfluxDB Cloud
Supported feature(s) with each edition
● Telegraf unique identifier
● Expand and simplify configuration/editing capabilities across the board
● Make data ingestion completely observable, layering in controls based on
observed behavior
Telegraf and InfluxDB
● OSS registration to Cloud
● Staged GitOps deployment of stacks and templates
● Make connected “edges” completely observable, layering in controls for
change management and more

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Call to Action
InfluxDB OSS – Generally Available
• 1.x in-place upgrade for Linux-based images
• Explore the features and capabilities
• Build and share templates
Recruitment! Teams, Developers, Ops...
Thank you!

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Q&A