Review on InfluxDB by Sean Fabacher

I like that it's built in house, so security isn't an issue for them. It makes sense how the structure works and you can build dashboards pretty easily with Grafana out of box as well. Some of the functions are clunky when creating queries (I have yet to make one work). As mentioned above, it would be nice if there was some way other then query builder to input SQL statements. Also, having to install additional software seems unnecessary considering MySQL has had great support for ages now. We use influxdb as our database within Prometheus to store metric values related to our stack/applications at work. The most useful feature is that it is distributed across multiple nodes, so you don't have to worry about losing your data if one node fails. It's also very fast for storing large amounts of data. I dislike that there isn't an API for querying the database. There are some third party tools but they're not free or well documented. If you need a good way to store and query large amounts of time series data, InfluxDB is the way to go. We use it to store telemetry data from our fleet of vehicles.