Monitoring Raspberry Pi Devices Using Telegraf, InfluxDB and Grafana
If I have a regret in my observability stack I think it’s got to be influxdb.<p>I bought in to the TICK stack and planned on using an enterprise support contract when going to production, but every interaction with InfluxData the company has felt a bit sleazy. Trying to push very hard to the cloud offering for example.<p>That’s bad enough, but the documentation and observability of the database is quite poor, and it’s trivially easy to “vanish” all your data and lock your instance up for hours or days by changing the retention policy of a database. (Not making it much different).<p>Now of course it’s not TICK at all. More like “TI” as kapacitor and chonograph (dashboarding and alerting respectively) are deprecated products and rolled in to the main offering.<p>Added to that they completely changed the query language.<p>I have to say; pick something better if you can. TimescaleDB or Prometheus (which uses openTSDB) are promising.