Exploring InfluxDB Cloud Tutorial Course

Course Description

In this course, you will learn about InfluxDB Cloud and the features it provides. To start you will create your cloud account and learn about the various account management features and how you can manage your organizations and members. Next, you will learn how you can get data into InfluxDB using client libraries, the CLI, or tools like Telegraf. After that, you will learn how to query and visualize your data using the InfluxDB Data Explorer. You will then learn how you can organize your charts using Dashboards and Notebooks. Finally, you will learn how to take automated actions on your data using Tasks, Alerts, and Checks. In the next section of the course, the instructor will show you a demo of how to connect InfluxDB Cloud to Telegraf to collect metrics and visualize your metric data. Finally, you will learn about how you can combine InfluxDB Open Source with InfluxDB cloud using edge data replication to create apps with hybrid architectures.

What you'll learn

How to get started with InfluxDB Cloud
How to query and visualize your data using InfluxDB Data Explorer
How to use Notebooks and Dashboards
How to use Telegraf with InfluxDB Cloud
How to combine InfluxDB OSS with InfluxDB Cloud for hybrid architectures

Requirements

An InfluxDB Cloud account
Basic programming knowledge

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Instructors

Ian Clark

Ian Clark is a Solutions Engineer for Influx Data where he works with Influx’s largest customers to design scalable and performant solutions. For the last decade he has supported enterprise accounts in the finance, infosec, and adtech spaces across two continents. His research focuses now primarily include data engineering and warehouse design as well as distributed databases. GitHub: @idclark

Jae Kim

Jae Kim works remotely as a Solutions Engineer at InfluxDB. Jae's responsibilities involve partnering with the sales teams in order to support and maintain technical relationships with InfluxDB users. Jae not only designs solutions, but also address user requirements by working closely with the engineering and sales teams. When not programming or hacking away at CTFs, Jae can be found practicing the piano, going on scenic hiking trails, and learning to trade the Futures market!