Quick introduction to influxdb

Influxdb. Time to awesome = short when following examples and knowing the influxdocs

3.70 (417 reviews)

Udemy

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English

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Databases

What you will learn

Use influxdb for effectively storing and quering timeseries, e.g. storing temperatures from your IoT device

Understand the influxdb data scheme

Write basic queries

Understand fundamental concepts of influxdb such as measurements, retention policies, tags, fields, series....

Description

UPDATE 8th Oct 2018:
I am sorry for any confusion caused by the title and description. I have now renamed the course to: "Quick introduction to influxdb" to more accurately describe the content.

Have you started checking out influxdb or any of the other components in the TICK stack? Even though the documentation is good, it can be tiring and inefficient to simply read through. Let me take you step by step through learning about the TICK stack by building projects. Each project will have a specific goal and contain lecutures with key takeways. Moreover the code is available and ready for you to temper with.

So if you are ready to speed up your learning of the TICK stack join me in building some projects!

I'll do my best to keep the lectures relevant, fun, and engaging by:

Building projects
Pointing out none obvious concepts and explanations
Showing diagrams to explain concepts
Questioning your understanding
Reference influxdata documentation to help you learn more

*If you have any feedback please let me know.
**This is my first course and I have a lot to learn.
***This course is under development and I would love to get some feedback on what you want to learn next.

Content

Preperation: Download code and install requirements

Clone repo and follow instructions

Influxdb project 1: Write and read temperatures using the influxdb REST api

Section 1: Scenario, learning objectives, and steps

Theory: Influxdb schema and LINE protocol

Influxdb schema and LINE protocol

Theory: Influxdb query language

Influxdb query language

Scenario schema design and schema design checklist

Setup influxdb using docker-compose

Create a db with postman

Write a datapoint with postman

Query datapoints with postman

Create a db with python

Write temperatures for a whole day in python

Querying temperatures in python

Graph the temperatures using highcharts

Explanation of visualization code

Recap and issues

Retention policy and continuous query for downsampling

Advanced queries

Setup and deploy

Influx internals

Where to go next in the documentation

Reviews

Rodrigo

July 27, 2023

Curso abordou muito bem o básico a respeito da montagem de querys de consulta com python. Vale a pena o tempo investido.

Angel

February 14, 2022

The course present the basics to start to use influxdb. I could be nice a deeper course which includes grafana and telegraf.

Bjørn

October 31, 2021

- schlechtes Englisch - Quiz1 fragt ab, was nicht vorher erklärt wurde => Trainer setzt quasi voraus, was er erklärt. => Inhalt des ersten Videos alternativ auf 5 Folien der BRLug gefunden -- und verstanden

Nenad

March 20, 2021

I love the level of detail, the quizes and the pace, and for me, being a professional programmer who just needs to get up to speed with this technology asap, it's perfect. This is a great course, and, beeing free, I actually find giving it less then five stars kind of impertinent. What's there not to like? Keep on the good work, Espen!

Alexandre

November 9, 2020

Great introduction to InfluxDB! Many thanks to the author! The course itself needs some "polishing" to be "production ready". I'd recommend smoothing out the transitions between topics. A few concrete recommendations: - Lecture 3 could benefit from some additional explanations and examples - Lecture 5 was rather meaningless as most of the concepts/terms discussed were not yet introduced in the course Overall, very solid WIP! Would recommend to anyone interested in the topic.

Bob

September 24, 2020

The instructor seems to know the topic rather well. But, knowing something and being able to teach it are two very different things.

Kim

September 9, 2020

I learned something new, but most of the videos was a bit fast in trying to convey the information. There was also some parts that was missing some background information, like why should we do a regex on "green"? It turned out that a new field was added without letting us know. It could be better, but it was an intro at least.

Bence

August 21, 2020

There should be either no theoretical introduction and refer to another pre-requisite course or it should be more comprehensive.

Roberto

August 14, 2020

It's good as a beginner's course. The working examples are valuable. Good that it points to the next steps on the documentation.

Leonard

May 15, 2020

This was a decent tutorial/overview of InfluxDB. There were some parts that were glossed over, but it did serve the purpose of an overview. The references provided are helpful also. I did learn the basics, so thank you!

Vernon

May 7, 2020

Good quick introduction to InfluxDB. Some familiarity with git, Unix, and Docker -- including having Docker already installed -- are prerequisites.

Rahul

April 19, 2020

The course could have explained some stuff in more detail and better explanation like continuous query, downsampling and why we need it with a visual concept.

Aaron

August 22, 2018

I definitely enjoyed the course. It was a good, brief, and engaging introduction to InfluxDB. I didn't want it to end. I was able to get up and running in very short time because of this course. My only suggestion would be to add more lectures on more features. Possibly include sections on telegraf and kapacitor. If there created a paid course with this, I would definitely purchase it.

Wallace

June 17, 2018

good: Visual detail about influxdb infrastructure, good examples and fine discussion about difference between time series database and relational database bad: To teaching something you need to build the query and explain why is build in that particularly way, this style of "copy 'n paste and you know the drill" doesn't fit to an on line course.

Daniel

May 2, 2018

Nice course. But I thinks it's not enough for a very extended subject, so I found it kind of confusing.

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