InfluxDB 2.0 introduces a time series database and observability platform that enables quicker development with features like dashboards as code, interactive monitoring, and advanced data visualization. The platform allows for the creation and management of dashboards through an API, facilitating code reuse via templates and fostering collaboration. Key components include the Giraffe and Clockface libraries for visualization, and a call to action invites users to explore the platform's capabilities.

2. Tim E. Hall / VP Products
Dashboards as Code

3. InfluxDB 2.0 – Changing the Game

4. Journey
Time Series Database
Observability Platform
• Write less code
• Faster time to awesome
• Enable powerful ecosystem
• High performance
• Time to awesome
• Purpose built

5. • Interactive & Autonomous Monitoring
• InfluxDB 2.0 Dashboard Overview
• Dashboards as Code (Templates, API, Command Line)
• Visualization Components
• Sharing Expertise

6. Interactive & Autonomous Monitoring
Manual
Queries
Dashboards
Alerts /
Notifications
Autonomous MonitoringInteractive Monitoring

7. Manual Queries created via Flux Query Builder
• Data exploration is the start of the journey

8. Manual Queries created via Flux Script Editor
• Advanced Flux script manipulation and language features

9. Dashboards are created via Flux
• Creation of dashboards and cells allow for active monitoring

10. Dashboard Visualization Types

11. Dashboards are self contained…
• Variables

12. …and can be imported, exported & shared as templates
• Templates

13. Dashboards as Code

14. Dashboards can be completely managed via the API
• Export or Templates can be
checked into source code
control – leverage existing
tooling for CI/CD
• Creating & modifying
dashboards and cells is
simple via the API
• See our Swagger.yml for full
details or /docs for interactive
docs

15. Templates allow you to instantiate multiple instances of Dashboards
• Admins can create/import Dashboard Templates
• Users don’t need to start from scratch

16. Dashboards as Code Summary
• Dashboards can be managed via the API
• Dashboards are self contained and can be exported / imported
easily
• Templates foster code reuse and sharing of expertise…but where
does this lead?

17. InfluxDB 2.x: Composable Solutions
Define and Share via User Defined Packages
Select
Queries & Scripts
Select
Dashboards
Select
Data Sources
Network Monitoring
IOT/Sensor System
Infrastructure Monitoring
Faster time to Awesome!

18. Visualization
Components

19. Introducing
Giraffe Clockface
https://github.com/influxdata/giraffe https://github.com/influxdata/clockface

20. Giraffe
• A React-based visualization library used to implement the InfluxDB 2.0
UI
• What’s in it?
– A high-level Grammar of Graphics style API that can specify a wide variety of
visualizations with a few simple concepts
– A columnar interface for input data that enables efficient interop with Web Workers
and Apache Arrow
– Easy reactivity and extensibility via React
– Self-contained configs in the style of Vega-Lite
– Support for mapping groupings of columns to a single visual aesthetic
• Docs being developed now

21. Clockface
• A React + Typescript UI Kit for building visualization applications

22. Rapidly build applications
• Leverage and reuse visualization components built for InfluxDB
• In conjunction with InfluxDB 2.0 JavaScript client library or stand-
alone
• All in Open Source

23. Call to Action
• Try it -> InfluxDB 2.0 Alpha or InfluxDB 2.0 Cloud
– Interactive Exploration and Monitoring
– Use Flux Query Builder and/or Flux Script Editor
• Explore Giraffe, Clockface and InfluxDB 2.0 JavaScript Client
Library
• Feedback Welcome!

24. Thank You!