August 2016 InfluxDB Meetup

Come join us for a great evening of talks from the community and companies that create, test and deploy InfluxDB in production.

The evening will have something interesting for both beginners and advanced users of InfluxDB.

For those coming straight from work, pizza and drinks will be provided. Video recordings of the talks will posted shortly after the event for those who cannot join us and we'll take a stab at broadcasting the event live.

If you have an InfluxDB related talk you'd like to share at a future Meetup, please submit it to the organizers for consideration!

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Announcements - 10 mins

Administrative stuff plus job-related and community announcements.

InfluxDB Tech Tips - 20 mins

Technical Level: Beginner/Intermediate

In this talk, Regan Kuchan from the InfluxData Support and Services team will walk you through her top ten tech tips on how to resolve common (and not so common) issues you might encounter with InfluxDB.

Intro to Telegraf and Writing Your Own Plugin - 45 mins

Technical Level: Intermediate/Advanced

In this session Jack Zampolin will show you how to install and configure Telegraf, InfluxDB’s native data collector that supports over 70 inputs and outputs. Also covered in this session are practical demonstrations of how to send data from a variety of systems, apps, databases and services in the appropriate format to InfluxDB. Finally, tips and tricks on how to write your own plugins.