In November 2020 InfluxDB released the stable version of open source InfluxDB v2. InfluxDB v2 uses a new v2 API and new Flux data scripting language. Flux uses functional language patterns and is an alternative to InfluxQL and other SQL-like query languages for querying and analyzing data. If you are…

Is my sourdough bread going to taste better? Will see. Was it fun to make? Absolutely. Do I recommend making your own? 100%! — This blog was originally written for and published at Grafana blog. 🧡 Sourdough monitoring system is actually my first IoT project that I’ve ever worked on. I truly enjoyed the process and I would like to share with everyone, who would like to dip their toe in IoT development, how…

How to get started with Prometheus Alertmanager and set up alert notifications with some popular methods and apps. — This blog was originally written for and published at Grafana’s blog. 🧡 In my previous blog post, How to Explore Prometheus with Easy ‘Hello World’ Projects, I described three projects that I used to get a better sense of what Prometheus can do. In this post, I’d like to share…

Easy and fast projects to explore Prometheus. — This blog was originally written for and published at Grafana’s blog. 🧡 In this blog post, I would like to share with you some of the projects that I used to to get a better sense of what Prometheus can do. I am a very hands-on type of learner, and…

As junior developer at a remote-first company — This blog was originally written for and published at Grafana’s blog. 🧡 I am a junior software engineer in Slovakia. I feel incredibly lucky that I’ve had this amazing opportunity to join Grafana Labs, as it was among the top companies that I’ve ever dreamed about working for. The only…

Grafana is an open source visualisation and analytics tool. Most commonly, it is used for visualising infrastructure data and for application analytics but lots of people are using it in many other areas including home automation 🏠, monitoring of beehives 🐝, for weather, for launching the space rockets 🚀and so…

Last week whooo hooo! 🎉 We have worked really really hard for the past couple of of weeks, but the last week especially. We needed to finalise features, polish everything, create landing page, make sure everything is working, finalise documentation, host application. Detailed Analysis Landing page I’ve worked on our landing page…

I should describe week four in 3 words it would be “busy productive super-eventful”. We have worked really really hard for the past couple of days and the application has come together very nicely. …

Past sprint felt very very short. That is mainly because on Monday, it was a European holiday and I was travelling (and I couldn’t work). Therefore we’ve worked only 4 days and I definitely think, that 1 day extra would be helpful. So what have we completed? …