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  • "We are using the open-source version of InfluxDB."
  • "InfluxDB is open-source, but there are additional costs for scaling."
  • "InfluxDB recently increased its price. It is very expensive now."
  • "The tool is an open-source product."
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    Top Answer:The user interface is well-designed and easy to use. It provides a clear overview of the data, making it simple to understand the information at hand.
    Top Answer:There were concerns about data loss due to infrastructure limitations. We couldn't back up data locally if we were using the InfluxDB cloud, which was a major drawback. So, InfluxDB could improve its… more »
    Top Answer:Initially, we used Prometheus and Grafana for alerts. But, it wasn't feasible to handle logs and other types of databases. We then switched to InfluxDB due to its user interface, which allowed us to… more »
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    Overview

    InfluxDB is open-source software that helps developers and enterprises alike to collect, store, process, and visualize time series data and to build next-generation applications. InfluxDB provides monitoring and insight on IoT, application, system, container, and infrastructure quickly and easily without complexities or compromises in scale, speed, or productivity.

    InfluxDB has become a popular insight system for unified metrics and events enabling the most demanding SLAs. InfluxDB is used in just about every type of industry across a wide range of use cases, including network monitoring, IoT monitoring, industrial IoT, and infrastructure and application monitoring.

    InfluxDB offers its users:

    • Infrastructure and application monitoring: Collect, process, and analyze real-time data from edge devices to help optimize distributed infrastructure. 
    • IoT monitoring and analytics: InfluxDB is designed to store large volumes of time series data and quickly perform real-time analysis on that data. Gain insights from all the sensor data and use the collected data to create and perform automated tasks. 
    • Network monitoring: Manage responsive and high-performing networks with widely distributed resources.

    InfluxDB Benefits

    There are several benefits to using InfluxDB . Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

    • APIs and ready toolset: InfluxDB can be accessed via a set of powerful tools enabling users to get started quickly, with less programming required. This includes a REST API, extensive client libraries, a wide variety of open-source integrations, and Flux - a functional data scripting language for querying, analysis, and events. The InfluxDB API can be used to write data from edge devices to the InfluxDB instance 
    • Time series engine: Get any data - events, logs, traces - from any edge device - systems, sensors, queues, databases, and networks. This data is stored in a powerful and high-performing engine capable of ingesting millions of data points per second.
    • Community: InfluxDB has a large community of cloud and open-source developers ready to assist users. 
    • Ready-made templates: Use InfluxDB Templates, a set of tools with a packager and other ready monitoring solutions. These tools allow users to share their monitoring expertise with coworkers and other community members around the world. The Templates gallery offers available templates for some of the most popular tools and applications.
    • Enhanced UI: InfluxDB’s UI includes an explorer, dashboarding tools, and a script editor. Use it to easily browse the collected metric and event data and apply common transformations. The dashboarding tool comes with a variety of visualization options that help users view insights from the data. The script editor assists users to quickly master Flux with easily accessible examples, auto-completion, and real-time syntax checking.

    Reviews from Real Users

    InfluxDB stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its flexible integration options and its data aggregation feature.

    Shalauddin Ahamad S., a software engineer at a tech services company, notes, “The most valuable features are aggregating the data and the integration with Grafana for monitoring.”

    Monitor your servers, containers, and applications, in high-resolution and in real-time.

    Netdata collects metrics per second and presents them in beautiful low-latency dashboards. It is designed to run on all of your physical and virtual servers, cloud deployments, Kubernetes clusters, and edge/IoT devices, to monitor your systems, containers, and applications.

    It scales nicely from just a single server to thousands of servers, even in complex multi/mixed/hybrid cloud environments, and given enough disk space it can keep your metrics for years.

    KEY FEATURES:

    • 💥 Collects metrics from 800+ integrations
      Operating system metrics, container metrics, virtual machines, hardware sensors, applications metrics, OpenMetrics exporters, StatsD, and logs.

    • 💪 Real-Time, Low-Latency, High-Resolution
      All metrics are collected per second and are on the dashboard immediately after data collection. Netdata is designed to be fast.

    • 😶‍🌫️ Unsupervised Anomaly Detection
      Trains multiple Machine-Learning (ML) models for each metric collected and detects anomalies based on the past behavior of each metric individually.

    • 🔥 Powerful Visualization
      Clear and precise visualization that allows you to quickly understand any dataset, but also to filter, slice and dice the data directly on the dashboard, without the need to learn any query language.

    • 🔔 Out of box Alerts
      Comes with hundreds of alerts out of the box to detect common issues and pitfalls, revealing issues that can easily go unnoticed. It supports several notification methods to let you know when your attention is needed.

    • 📖 systemd Journal Logs Explorer (beta, in the nightly release channel)
      Provides a systemd journal logs explorer, to view, filter and analyze system and applications logs by directly accessing systemd journal files on individual hosts and infrastructure-wide logs centralization servers.

    • 😎 Low Maintenance
      Fully automated in every aspect: automated dashboards, out-of-the-box alerts, auto-detection and auto-discovery of metrics, zero-touch machine-learning, easy scalability and high availability, and CI/CD friendly.

    • Open and Extensible
      Netdata is a modular platform that can be extended in all possible ways and it also integrates nicely with other monitoring solutions.


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    ebay, AXA, Mozilla, DiDi, LeTV, Siminars, Cognito, ProcessOut, Recommend, CATS, Smarsh, Row 44, Clustree, Bleemeo
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    Financial Services Firm12%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Educational Organization9%
    Manufacturing Company7%
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    Computer Software Company35%
    Comms Service Provider14%
    Government11%
    Manufacturing Company9%
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    Midsize Enterprise22%
    Large Enterprise56%
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    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise65%
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    Midsize Enterprise24%
    Large Enterprise31%
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    InfluxDB is ranked 36th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 8 reviews while Netdata is ranked 60th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring. InfluxDB is rated 7.6, while Netdata is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of InfluxDB writes "A powerful, lightweight time series database with a simple query language and easy setup". On the other hand, InfluxDB is most compared with MongoDB, Cassandra, ScyllaDB, Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop and Couchbase, whereas Netdata is most compared with Zabbix, Checkmk, New Relic, Nagios Core and PRTG Network Monitor.

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