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Announcing InfluxDB, Telegraf, Kapacitor and Enterprise 1.0 RC1

60 points by runesoerensen 10y ago

gorodetsky 10y ago
Congrats to Paul & InfluxData team! Your stack is so great! A few questions - nothing extremely important but something that I was wondering about in the last few months: 1. Is there any reason for still using md5 instead of sha256 for packages and archives? 2. Do you have any plans for maintaining proper package repos? E.g. something like packagecloud?
- pauldix 10y ago
  1. No reason really, we should probably update. 2. We do have repos, just noticed that they're not listed on the downloads page. See this page for details: http://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v0.13/introduction/installation/#installation http://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v0.13/introduction/insta...
  - gorodetsky 10y ago
    Apologies for being a PITA, looks like apt repo still `beta3`: https://repos.influxdata.com/debian/pool/unstable/i/influxdb/ https://repos.influxdata.com/debian/pool/unstable/i/influxdb...
imglorp 10y ago
Granted Influxdata needs to eat, which is fine--and it's a product worth paying for--but they handed us a choice between an unanticipated expense versus reevaluating the market when they changed business models after we had selected them. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11262318 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11262318 https://influxdata.com/blog/update-on-influxdb-clustering-high-availability-and-monetization/ https://influxdata.com/blog/update-on-influxdb-clustering-hi...
dozzie 10y ago
Nice. When are you planning to start building your RPMs and DEBs properly instead of making a mess with FPM? Now that you appear to earn money, you should be able to afford a sysadmin to teach you how to do that. But your download page is awful. You mess with my mouse scroll, so it moves just a tiny bit on each move, and pop up the annoying survey on every refresh/page load.
- Leon 10y ago
  The mouse scroll override is extremely frustrating with a trackpad. Any site that does that just doesn't care about their users having a terrible experience. Mice and trackpads are already configured to a users preference - why push a custom movement, because the UX designer thought they knew better?
Mahn 10y ago
Looking forward to 1.0 final. InfluxDB is great, our only gripe so far is that it changes so fast that we just don't have the time to keep up with new versions. Hopefully with 1.0 final the team can finally have a stable version with somewhat long term support.
- pauldix 10y ago
  That's the plan. No breaking API changes for a long time. We'll have additive stuff in the 1.x point releases. Tentative plan is to cut 1.1 two months after 1.0 with patch releases in the interim for any necessary bug fixes.
Shish2k 10y ago
So I'm super-happy with influxdb for my time series storage; currently using collectd for input and grafana for output, because at the time influxdata only had a single product - since I've already got those set up, is there any point switching to telegraf and chronograf?

60 points by runesoerensen 10y ago

Congrats to Paul & InfluxData team! Your stack is so great! A few questions - nothing extremely important but something that I was wondering about in the last few months: 1. Is there any reason for still using md5 instead of sha256 for packages and archives? 2. Do you have any plans for maintaining proper package repos? E.g. something like packagecloud?

pauldix 10y ago
1. No reason really, we should probably update. 2. We do have repos, just noticed that they're not listed on the downloads page. See this page for details: http://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v0.13/introduction/installation/#installation http://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v0.13/introduction/insta...
- gorodetsky 10y ago
  Apologies for being a PITA, looks like apt repo still `beta3`: https://repos.influxdata.com/debian/pool/unstable/i/influxdb/ https://repos.influxdata.com/debian/pool/unstable/i/influxdb...

imglorp 10y ago

Granted Influxdata needs to eat, which is fine--and it's a product worth paying for--but they handed us a choice between an unanticipated expense versus reevaluating the market when they changed business models after we had selected them. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11262318 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11262318 https://influxdata.com/blog/update-on-influxdb-clustering-high-availability-and-monetization/ https://influxdata.com/blog/update-on-influxdb-clustering-hi...

dozzie 10y ago

Nice. When are you planning to start building your RPMs and DEBs properly instead of making a mess with FPM? Now that you appear to earn money, you should be able to afford a sysadmin to teach you how to do that. But your download page is awful. You mess with my mouse scroll, so it moves just a tiny bit on each move, and pop up the annoying survey on every refresh/page load.

Leon 10y ago
The mouse scroll override is extremely frustrating with a trackpad. Any site that does that just doesn't care about their users having a terrible experience. Mice and trackpads are already configured to a users preference - why push a custom movement, because the UX designer thought they knew better?

Mahn 10y ago

Looking forward to 1.0 final. InfluxDB is great, our only gripe so far is that it changes so fast that we just don't have the time to keep up with new versions. Hopefully with 1.0 final the team can finally have a stable version with somewhat long term support.

pauldix 10y ago
That's the plan. No breaking API changes for a long time. We'll have additive stuff in the 1.x point releases. Tentative plan is to cut 1.1 two months after 1.0 with patch releases in the interim for any necessary bug fixes.

Shish2k 10y ago

So I'm super-happy with influxdb for my time series storage; currently using collectd for input and grafana for output, because at the time influxdata only had a single product - since I've already got those set up, is there any point switching to telegraf and chronograf?