InfluxDB for Beginners

Build a strong foundation in InfluxDB with this practical course suited to both beginners and experienced professionals

A time series database is essentially a database optimized for time–stamped or time series data. InfluxDb is the top ranked time series database in the market. Time series databases are being used more and more for their scalability and usability. Use cases of time series databases today range from analyzing the retail industry to collecting data for self driving cars. Even autonomous trading algorithms today use time series databases. As such more and more jobs are going to developers who have this skill of using time series databases.

This course will guide you through all the basics of InfluxDB and get you ready to tackle any time series data project that comes your way,

We will cover the following pillars of InfluxDB:

1)TICK stack: Understand the overall architecture of InfluxDB How is it used in industry?. Leave behind the days of RDBMS and move to time series databases. Install and setup everything you need!

2)Basics: Ensure you can run basic commands like count, order–by,max, group–by etc. Learn how to implement retention policies and continuous queries. Test your knowledge of Functions in InfluxDB.

3)Real World Situations: Utilize InfluxDB for real world challenges like running a cohort analysis or setting up the full TICK stack with Telegraf, Chronograf and the Kapacitor. Build great dashboards using Grafana for analysis.