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Honest question: how do people use influxdb for monitoring and alerting? Our metrics feed into influx, and I cannot get answers to simple questions like “what i
by kalmar 9y ago
Honest question: how do people use influxdb for monitoring and alerting? Our metrics feed into influx, and I cannot get answers to simple questions like “what is the failure rate” because arithmetic across measurements isn't possible [0]. I could shoehorn things into a schema to make it work, but in the limit I end up with one mega measurement.
[0]: https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/issues/3552 https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/issues/3552
- zaarn 9y agoI've had similar problems. I feed analytics from my webpage into InfluxDB and it is impossible to compute a histogram of pageload times of the last 10k hits.
- agnivade 9y agoRight. You would have to approximate the last 10k hits to the time period. Also, check out the grafana histogram plugin. Works great for these scenarios.
- zaarn 9y agoI've tried the grafana histogram plugin but it doesn't work; simply get a 404 error on load and makes the entire row unusuable.
- agnivade 9y ago> Honest question: how do people use influxdb for monitoring and alerting? In our case, influx+grafana+alert notifications work well. Yes, the query language needs a lot of work. It doesn't support anything beyond simple queries.
- aequitas 9y agoMaybe try to use Graphite as additional query API for influx. We switched to Influx from Graphite but some queries where unable or cumbersome to translate into Influx query language (especially inside Grafana). In our case we use Graphite-api with a Influx plugin instead of Graphite's own frontend. https://github.com/InfluxGraph/influxgraph https://github.com/InfluxGraph/influxgraph