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Great timing. I was considering building a monitoring setup based on Influx and hookung up Grafana to it. Now, I can play with timescaledb and Grafana instead.
by reacharavindh 9y ago
Great timing. I was considering building a monitoring setup based on Influx and hookung up Grafana to it. Now, I can play with timescaledb and Grafana instead.
Don’t know the technical advantages/disadvantages of timescaledb over influxdb. If any of you had any experiences with them, pls share.
- scrollaway 9y agoI haven't tried timescaledb yet because it's not available on RDS (see https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/issues/65 https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/issues/65 if you want it on RDS btw). But I really can't wait to try it. My understanding is that it's resource-hungrier than Influx but to be really honest, influx has been super unreliable for me with metrics disappearing, very hard to do maintenance on it (eg. how do I find out where my disk space usage lies? etc) Postgres' maturity is something I miss every single day I deal with influx. I trust postgres' data integrity and tooling every day of the week and I don't have that with Influx.
- edejong 9y agoI have a very similar experience. Also the lack of support for any query more complicated than a freshman’s SQL is often bothering me.
- RobAtticus 9y agoHey, thanks for the shout out :) In terms of resource-hungry-ness, while we haven't done extensive benchmarking on memory & CPU against InfluxDB, we should compare fine on those resources. The one area we do fall behind is disk usage, but with ZFS or the like we can close the gap. Thanks for the support! Hopefully we can get it on RDS soon.