InfluxDB Essentials Tutorial Course

Course Description

NOTE: The content of this course pertains to InfluxDB Cloud running on the TSM engine and the open source version of InfluxDB. An updated course for InfluxDB 3.0 is available in the course catalog. This course covers the fundamentals of InfluxDB. It walks through the various components of the platform, and introduces the InfluxDB data model and how to map raw data onto it. After covering these concepts you will write data into a live InfluxDB instance. You will also learn about Flux, a scripting and query language to read data from InfluxDB and how to use it for more advanced transformation and analysis of time series data. Finally, this course examines different methods for visualizing data with InfluxDB and how to use tasks to automate different workflows, create alerts and notifications, and how you can combine InfluxDB with other tools in your architecture.

What you'll learn

The basic components of InfluxDB
How to format and write data into InfluxDB
How to use Flux to access, transform, and analyze data in InfluxDB
How to visualize time series data with InfluxDB
How to use tasks in InfluxDB for automation

Requirements

Basic understanding of time series data
Basic understanding of programming (writing, scripting, querying, and engineering tasks)
A free InfluxDB Cloud account

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Instructors

Anais Dotis-Georgiou

Anais Dotis-Georgiou is a Developer Advocate for InfluxData with a passion for making data beautiful with the use of Data Analytics, AI, and Machine Learning. She takes the data that she collects, does a mix of research, exploration, and engineering to translate the data into something of function, value, and beauty. When she is not behind a screen, you can find her outside drawing, stretching, boarding, or chasing after a soccer ball. GitHub: @Anaisdg

Michael Hall

Michael Hall leads the Developer Relations team at InfluxData and is an open source software developer, community manager and technology evangelist. He has extensive experience in developing desktop and web-based software in a large variety of languages and frameworks, and contributes to a number of open source projects and communities. GitHub: @mhall119