https://chejinying.com/tech/tags/monitoring/ Recent content in Monitoring on Jinying Tech Blog Hugo en-us Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:02:35 +0800 https://chejinying.com/tech/posts/observability/influxdb/ Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:02:35 +0800 https://chejinying.com/tech/posts/observability/influxdb/ <h2 id="overview">Overview</h2> <p>InfluxDB is a time-series database: a database optimized for values that arrive with timestamps, are usually appended rather than updated, and are commonly queried over time ranges.</p> <p>InfluxDB provides a richer value model than a monitoring-only metrics system. A point can contain several typed fields, such as a float temperature, an integer error count, a Boolean status, and a string state. Data is normally pushed to InfluxDB using its compact <strong>line protocol</strong>, then queried with SQL or InfluxQL.</p>