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InfluxDB 1.1: 60% performance increase and new query functionality

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Re: InfluxDB 1.1: 60% performance increase and new query functionality

#31

Post by user5994461 »

hbs wrote: post #21
scrollaway wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like you were using the wrong tool for the job. Influx is not for high cardinality data.

The problem is the definition of high cardinality, the Gorilla paper talks about 2B metrics at FB but the hardware sizing page for influx shows a scary graph which basically kills any series cardinality above a million https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v1.1/guides/hardware_si... quite a difference!

InfluxData is a single server app with zero failover and zero sharding.

There is no "billion" metrics going in there. The architecture (or lack thereof) is not intended for that.

You can try vertical scaling (if you're not in the cloud), you'll squeeze more metrics until you overflow your network cards or your hard drives or your CPU.

Re: InfluxDB 1.1: 60% performance increase and new query functionality

#32

Post by daenney »

reacharavindh wrote: post #29
daenney wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As far as I'm concerned I shouldn't have to give up my contact details in order to download FOSS software. Thankfully in this case I can just go build the thing myself but these kind of sign up walls without a way to opt out of them do annoy me.

Yes, you could build the thing yourself. I'm all for protecting privacy, but, Don't you think it is reasonable for a FOSS project/company to collect basic stats on their audience? They aren't even forcing you to give up your identity. Just an email address, which could be something that don't particularly identify you, while they get unique user stats. You could obviously mark them as Spam, if they do end up spamming…

I have no issue with them collecting basic stats. I'm contributing to the statistics Homebrew collects and when Django gets their statistics I will keep them enabled or opt-in.

However, I should be allowed to opt out. I also don't consider my (work) email address to be meaningful data they can use to improve the quality of their software or gain an understanding of how it's being used. At best I can see them deduping download counts through it which can be done in other ways.

Re: InfluxDB 1.1: 60% performance increase and new query functionality

#33

Post by pauldix »

regecks wrote: post #6

Sweet. I had some 'getting oomkilled' problems with boundless queries back when I started using Influx for production early in the year, but it has been rock solid and performant since the later 0.1x releases. > Support for regular expressions on field keys in the SELECT clause. For example, SELECT /cpu_\d/ FROM cpu Woohoo! Very nice for making Grafana dashboards. > The admin UI (port 8083) is now officially deprecat…

Before we actually remove the admin interface, we'll have a modern version of it in the now OSS Chronograf. Basically moving that functionality to there so we can iterate on the UI separately from the DB.

Re: InfluxDB 1.1: 60% performance increase and new query functionality

#34

Post by pauldix »

zenlot wrote: post #9
CSDude wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The admin UI was really good and they started to strip features away from it one by one and now it is disabled. It even could do simple graphs and was very useful for debugging.

That seems to be their uncommunicated plan - to attract users to open source version and then remove features to offer just with enterprise product. They have done it with clustering support where after attracting people with promises they then removed it from open source version. Grafana as a replacement? It really does different things.

The admin UI functionality is getting moved over to Chronograf, which is now open source. We do have commercial stuff, but trying to make money off our UI was never a strategy.

Re: InfluxDB 1.1: 60% performance increase and new query functionality

#35

Post by heroprotagonist »

reacharavindh wrote: post #29
daenney wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As far as I'm concerned I shouldn't have to give up my contact details in order to download FOSS software. Thankfully in this case I can just go build the thing myself but these kind of sign up walls without a way to opt out of them do annoy me.

Yes, you could build the thing yourself. I'm all for protecting privacy, but, Don't you think it is reasonable for a FOSS project/company to collect basic stats on their audience? They aren't even forcing you to give up your identity. Just an email address, which could be something that don't particularly identify you, while they get unique user stats. You could obviously mark them as Spam, if they do end up spamming…

Whenever I see 'valid work email address' on a form I assume I'm going to get harassed by sales people.

Re: InfluxDB 1.1: 60% performance increase and new query functionality

#36

Post by captncraig »

heroprotagonist wrote: post #35
reacharavindh wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, you could build the thing yourself. I'm all for protecting privacy, but, Don't you think it is reasonable for a FOSS project/company to collect basic stats on their audience? They aren't even forcing you to give up your identity. Just an email address, which could be something that don't particularly identify you, while they get unique user stats. You could obviously mark them as Spam, if they do end up spamming…

Whenever I see ' valid work email address' on a form I assume I'm going to get harassed by sales people.

Definitely what influx does. I feel like I get an email from them at least every week.

Re: InfluxDB 1.1: 60% performance increase and new query functionality

#37

Post by JorgeGT »

aorth wrote: post #20

I wanted to try it, but the downloads page presents a popup asking for your name and email address, and you cannot dismiss it. https://www.influxdata.com/downloads/

Not only that, they ask for your work email address. I'm only using InfluxDB for my home dashboard (raspi, some sensors, etc.) so I just went with "sales@influxdb.com" instead.

Re: InfluxDB 1.1: 60% performance increase and new query functionality

#38

Post by pauldix »

aorth wrote: post #20

I wanted to try it, but the downloads page presents a popup asking for your name and email address, and you cannot dismiss it. https://www.influxdata.com/downloads/

That should be getting changed to have a dismiss x on the upper right. TBH I thought it had been done already. Overly aggressive marketing department...

Re: InfluxDB 1.1: 60% performance increase and new query functionality

#39

Post by Signez »

aorth wrote: post #20

I wanted to try it, but the downloads page presents a popup asking for your name and email address, and you cannot dismiss it. https://www.influxdata.com/downloads/

I find it even more sad when in the meantime, the button named "Learn more" on the same page doesn't link to a valid page (as https://www.influxdata.com/pricing leads to a 404).

To improve the "conversion", it would be a way better way to fix that link instead of forcing me to use the Web Inspector to remove a rude modal dialog…

Re: InfluxDB 1.1: 60% performance increase and new query functionality

#40

Post by OldSchoolJohnny »

reacharavindh wrote: post #29
daenney wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As far as I'm concerned I shouldn't have to give up my contact details in order to download FOSS software. Thankfully in this case I can just go build the thing myself but these kind of sign up walls without a way to opt out of them do annoy me.

Yes, you could build the thing yourself. I'm all for protecting privacy, but, Don't you think it is reasonable for a FOSS project/company to collect basic stats on their audience? They aren't even forcing you to give up your identity. Just an email address, which could be something that don't particularly identify you, while they get unique user stats. You could obviously mark them as Spam, if they do end up spamming…

"Don't you think it is reasonable for a FOSS project/company to collect basic stats on their audience?"

No. That is not free, that is paying for it with your privacy.

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