InfluxDB case study

1. Case Study : InfluxDB
By:-
Omkar Powar (1853002)

2. Introduction
What is InfluxDB Cloud?
It’s a fast, elastic, serverless real-time monitoring platform,
dashboarding engine, analytics service and event and metrics
processor.
InfluxData 1.x
The InfluxData 1.x platform includes the
following open source components (TICK stack):
● Telegraf: collect data
● InfluxDB: store data
● Chronograf: visualize data
● Kapacitor: process data and alerts
InfluxDB 2.0
The InfluxDB 2.0 platform consolidates components
from the InfluxData 1.x platform into a single packaged
solution, with added features and flexibility:
● InfluxDB 2.0 OSS: open source platform solution in
a single binary
● InfluxDB Cloud 2.0 (commercial offering): hosted
cloud solution

3. Why use InfluxDB Cloud?
Time to awesome
InfluxDB Cloud provides you with
the fastest time to results. You
can get up and running in
minutes and easily scale your
project as needed. It’s
purpose-built and optimized for
time to awesome. Powerful
wizards walk you through setup
and you’re connected with
recommended dashboards for
the most common use cases.
Serverless–elastic scalability
InfluxDB Cloud is a cloud-native
application that scales elastically
with you. The workload demands
fluctuate, and InfluxDB Cloud
offers real-time observability at
any scale. No need to choose a
size of machine, or go through the
pain of estimating usage; plus,
usage-based pricing ensures you
only pay for what you use.
InfluxDB Cloud provides the best
time series database as a service.
Free
InfluxDB Cloud includes a
rate-limited free plan designed to
be the fastest time to awesome for
anyone getting started or the
hobbyist. Enjoy a few dashboards,
scheduled queries and a
high-performing time series
database, all on the house. And
when you need more, you can
upgrade to the usage-based
service and only pay for what you
use.

4. Key features
Built for time
InfluxDB is a high-performance data store written
specifically for time series data. It allows for high
throughput ingest, compression and real-time
querying. InfluxDB can handle millions of data
points per second. Working with that much data
over a long period can lead to increased cost of
storage. InfluxDB automatically compacts,
compresses, and downsamples your data
keeping high-precision raw data for a limited time
and storing the lower-precision, summarized data
for much longer or until the end of time. This is
the best way to balance costs without sacrificing
visibility.
Get data from everywhere
Getting insights from your systems, stacks and
sensors is easy. InfluxDB Cloud connects right
to Telegraf, a plugin-driven server agent for
collecting and sending metrics and events from
almost anywhere. Telegraf is written in Go and
compiles into a single binary with no external
dependencies, and requires minimal memory
footprint.

5. Key features
Deeper insights
InfluxDB Cloud is equipped with Flux,
our powerful language that allows
developers to see across time. Flux is
easy to learn and use, simple to share
and an extensible programming
language designed for data scripting,
monitoring and analytics. Now it is
possible to find hidden meaning in
data, more accurately detect
anomalies, powerful notifications, and
act in time.
Integrated visualization and dashboarding
InfluxDB Cloud comes with prebuilt dashboards
and scripts for common monitoring projects –
Docker, Kubernetes, Nginx, Redis, InfluxDB, with
more being added all the time. Get started fast,
customize some cells and show results in minutes
– not days. Using Grafana? Not a problem,
InfluxDB Cloud is also accessible from Grafana.

6. Key features
Single unified API
Everything in InfluxDB — ingestion, query,
storage and visualization — is now
accessible via a unified API. APIs enable
faster time to awesome for developers as
everything in the platform can now be
programmatically accessed and controlled. If
you started in the open source, and want to
move to cloud, no problem — same API, no
code change — but now you have an elastic
time series database as a service at your
disposal.
Easy-to-build, easy-to-share templates
InfluxDB Templates — a new set of tools
that includes a packager and a set of
pre-made monitoring solutions — allow you
to share your monitoring expertise with
coworkers and other community members
around the world. The InfluxDB Templates
gallery features available templates covering
some of the most popular tools, applications,
and protocols.

7. Architecture
InfluxDB Cloud includes way more than you find in the open source –
it is an elastic time series database as a service.
InfluxDB Cloud
Services
Built from an open source core,
InfluxDB Cloud is a serverless
elastic scale database as a
service that is maintained and
administered by the experts at
InfluxData.

8. Services
Elastic Services
InfluxDB Cloud is built as a cloud-native, multi-tenant, elastic scale, serverless platform. Each
service can scale independently based on workload and usage requirements. This all happens
behind the scenes from the user. Need more storage? It’s there — no need to procure more or
use a bigger machine. Need more compute power to perform complex analytical functions in
Flux? No problem — we elastically scale up to meet that demand with zero human
intervention. The same is true for all the services you might need — compute, query, read,
write, store, visualize, alert, notify, trigger, to name just a few.
Platform Services
InfluxDB Cloud is run by the experts and creators of InfluxDB. Dedicated engineers have
done all the heavy lifting to ensure that the InfluxDB Cloud service is available when you
need it. It is secure and hardened with all the latest security features and patches installed
and configured; it is optimized for elastic scalability; clusters are rebalanced; sharding is
taken care of; and replication factors are built-in. Basically, all the complexity of running a
time series database is done for you. The whole infrastructure is monitored and controlled
enabling you to have the peace of mind to get your real work done.

9. Services
Support Services
Designed to optimize the time to awesome, InfluxDB Cloud is also supported by the dedicated
team at InfluxData. With flexible support pricing and options, you can choose from Slack and
forum-based community support all the way up to having a dedicated customer success
manager to help you deliver exceptional results to your organization.
Multi-Cloud
InfluxDB Cloud was architected to run on any cloud – Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google
Cloud (GCP) and Microsoft Azure. Designed for ultimate flexibility to prevent lock-in, you get to
choose both the cloud provider and location of the infrastructure. InfluxDB Cloud currently runs
on AWS US-West-2 (Oregon) and EU-Central-1 (Frankfurt), on Google Cloud US-Central
(Iowa) and on Microsoft Azure in the EU-West-1 (Netherlands) and US-East (Virginia) regions.
Suggest which region and service you want us to expand to next by sharing your feedback
here.

10. Works in your environment
Telegraf
InfluxDB Cloud uses Telegraf for
both collecting and sending metrics
and events from databases,
applications, systems and IoT
sensors. Telegraf is a plugin-driven
server agent with over 200 plugins.
It is written in Go and compiles into
a single binary with no external
dependencies, and requires a very
minimal memory footprint.
Client Libraries
InfluxDB Cloud can be
accessed via a set of powerful
client libraries. Currently, there
are client libraries for C#, Go,
Java, Python, and JavaScript
with more on the way. These
client libraries are easily
accessible in a new tab in the
UI.
API
InfluxDB Cloud can be accessed
programmatically through a robust set
of APIs. These APIs are common
across InfluxDB open source and
InfluxDB Cloud allowing the
developer to write code once and run
it either locally against an open
source version of the database or
against the elastic database as a
service — InfluxDB Cloud.

11. References
1. https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v2.0/
2. https://www.influxdata.com/blog/release-announcement-influxdb-2-0-0-rc-3/
3. https://docs.influxdata.com/platform/#influxdb-2-0
4. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335601727_Suitability_Of_Influxdb
_Database_For_Iot_Applications

12. Thank You