InfluxData, founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, offers a time-series database designed for real-time monitoring of applications and systems, boasting 205,698 unique deployments and over 506 customers including major corporations like IBM and Cisco. The platform integrates open-source capabilities with effective monetization strategies, making it a leader in the rapidly growing database segment. Key functionalities include traffic and network monitoring, as well as real-time analytics to support both active and passive monitoring needs.

1. Luca Deri, Founder of ntop
Daniella Pontes, Sr. Product Marketing Mgr at InfluxData
April 2019
Monitoring Containerized
Application Environments
with eBPF

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The open source time
series database
Real time visibility into stacks,
sensors, and systems
What is
InfluxData?

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At a glance
Founded
Mission
Focus
Difference
Traction
Business Model
2013
San Francisco HQ, 114+FTE’s, 55+ in Technical Functions
Be the Modern Engine for metrics and events
Purpose built Time Series Data Platform
Sensor, Infrastructure and Business Process Monitoring
One foundation platform to monitor and control the physical and virtual world
Purpose built, fastest time to awesome, real actions in real-time
Clear leadership in the fastest growing segment of the database work
~205,698 unique active deployments, 506+ customers
Including: IBM, Cisco, PayPal, SAP, Comcast, Tesla, and Siemens
Open source distribution with closed source economics
Clear and critical monetization

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Time Series and InfluxData
Time Series fastest growing category InfluxData is the leading time-series database
Trend of the Last 24 Months DB Engine Scores of the Last 24 Months
Source: DB-Engines Source: DB-Engines

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Market Drivers

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Age of Instrumentation
Sensorification of the Physical World Instrumentation of the Virtual World

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Traffic
Monitoring
Responsiveness
Monitoring
Availability
Monitoring
Network Monitoring
Up / Down
Is Host/
Endpoint/
Load Balancer/
NAT server
reachable?
Healthcheck
Load Balancer
TLS / SSL Cert

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Traffic
Monitoring
Responsiveness
Monitoring
Availability
Monitoring
Network Monitoring
Latency
Packet Loss,
Error Rate, Jitter
Network Interface
Load
Is the network
functional?

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Traffic
Monitoring
Responsiveness
Monitoring
Availability
Monitoring
Network Monitoring
Per IP /
Protocol / Port
Malicious &
Malformed
Traffic
DoS Attacks
Bandwidth
consumption
Who, when, and
how much?
ntop

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Luca Deri <deri@ntop.org>
@lucaderi
Luca Deri <deri@ntop.org>
@lucaderi
Monitoring Containerised Application
Environments with eBPF

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Right tool, right job
Fast and easy install, unified system of insight with
open source integrations to other frameworks
HA and scalable. Optimized for high write and query
loads, and efficient storage.
Real-time analytics. Correlation of metrics, events and
inner system observation. All monitoring functionalities,
passive & active, supported in one place.
Open Source Easy to start and expand
Performant
No guessing, focus
Purpose-built
Effective

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Resources
Events calendar: https://www.influxdata.com/events/
Ntop Conference Padova (8-9 Maio, 2019):
https://www.ntop.org/ntopconf2019/
Influxdays London (13-14 June, 2019)
https://influxdays.com/
InfluxData Solution Page: Network Performance Monitoring
Tech Papers & Webinars:
Tech Paper: Network Monitoring with InfluxData
Webinar: How to Monitor Your Network with InfluxData

13. Thank You