Learn more about InfluxData’s time series platform. InfluxDB Cloud is a fast, elastic, serverless real-time monitoring platform, dashboarding engine, analytics service and event and metrics processor. It is available on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Since its launch, we have been busy making updates to the product! Join Balaji Palani, Director of Product Management, as he demonstrates the the latest features of InfluxDB Cloud. This one-hour webinar will feature a product update and Q&A time.

1. Balaji Palani,
Dir. Product Management
April 2021
InfluxDB Cloud Roadmap
Now, Next, Later

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About Me:
Background:
• Been in the IT industry for
20+ years
• Worn many hats:
– Development, Support,
Customer Success, Product
Management
• Joined InfluxData ~3yrs
ago
Role at InfluxData:
• PM for Cloud
• Run Project Lighthouse
Contact:
• Email: balaji@influxdata.com
• Slack @Balaji Palani on the
community slack
(https://influxcommunity.slack.com
/)
• Book an hour with PM -
https://calendly.com/balaji-p/60min

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Objectives for today’s meeting
● InfluxDB Cloud Roadmap Update
● Who / What are we focused on?
● Now, Next, Later

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Who and What are we focused on?
Developers, Builders &
Operators
Cloud native applications requiring time
series data store
1. Developer Happiness
○ Teams / Collaboration
○ Make it easier to build on the platform
2. Time to Awesome
○ Make data acquisition easier including
faster data transport in / out
○ Enable higher cardinality use cases
3. Run where you are & Pay how you
want
○ Global distribution of workloads
○ Billing options

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InfluxDB Cloud Roadmap - high level view
* Only offered with annual deals
Now Next Later
Themes
● Notebooks
● Dashboard Annotations
● Multi-Org / Multi-Account
● Enterprise SSO*
● Role Based Access Control
● Deeper automation to
achieve Gitops workflows
Teams/
Collaboration
● Tenant Observability ● Named Functions
● Triggers
● Managed Functions
● Schema locked buckets
● Polyglot queries with SQL
support
Make it easier to
build on the
platform
● Telegraf 1.18 ● Telegraf 1.19
● Bulk data import
● Cloud Native integration
● Bulk export of data
● Data archival
Make data
movement easier
● IOx backed storage Enable higher
cardinality use case
● GCP - Europe (Belgium) ● AWS - AP (Sydney)
● Azure - Europe (North)
● AWS - Europe (Ireland)
● Other APAC
Global Distribution
● Annual offers in
Marketplaces
Billing options

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Available Now!

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Notebooks
Teams/ Collaboration
● Goal is to provide a single consistent
building experience in our platform
● Designed to allow teams to
incrementally build queries or
background processing tasks
together
● Flexible enough to guide new users
and unblock power users
● View multiple related resources in a
single view

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Dashboard Annotations
Teams/ Collaboration
● Goal is share context in dashboards
● Add, edit, delete as needed
● Annotations never expire
● Available in your InfluxDB Cloud
accounts soon
● Ranged annotations, custom colors,
support for more graph types coming
soon

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Tenant Observability
Make platform easier to build
● Goal is to provide self-
service access to usage
and operations:
○ Usage
○ Cardinality
○ Rate limit events
○ Write errors
○ Query Log
● User configurable
templates for dashboards &
alerts
● Available on all cloud
accounts shortly

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Telegraf 1.18 -- Released March, 2021
Make data acquisition easier
New Inputs
● Beat Input Plugin
● CS:GO Input Plugin
● Directory Monitoring Input Plugin*
● RavenDB Input Plugin
● NFS Input Plugin*
New Outputs
● Google BigQuery Output Plugin
● Grafana Loki Output Plugin
● Sensu Output Plugin
● SignalFX Output Plugin
New External Plugin
● GeoIP Processor Plugin
● Plex Webhook Input Plugin
● SMCIPMITool Input Plugin
New Aggregators
● Derivative Aggregator Plugin
● Quantile Aggregator Plugin
New Processors
● AWS EC2 Metadata Processor
Plugin
New Parsers
● XML Parser Plugin
New Serializers
● MessagePack Serializer
Plugin
*customer requests
New Features
● Updated to Go 1.16.2
● Code Signing for Windows & Mac
● More SNMP v3 authentication
protocols including SHA-512
● 140+ commits from 78
contributors

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What’s Next?

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Multi-Account / Multi-Org
Teams/ Collaboration
● One email for all accounts
● Within an account, can limit
access to each org
● Role can be different in
each account or org
● More fine-grained resource
permissions coming later -
e.g. access to a particular
dashboard
InfluxData
account
InfluxData
Org
My personal
account
Customer X’s
account
X dev
org
X prod
org
Balaji’s Org
balaji@influxdata,com

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Triggers
Make platform easier to build
● Goal is to use events to run
tasks
● Events can be “write to a
bucket”
● Use cases:
○ Late arrivals of data
○ Streamlined alerting
InfluxDB
Cloud
QUERY
ACT
Scheduled Task / Alert check
Notificatio
n systems
WRITE
InfluxDB
Cloud
ACT
Triggers
Notificatio
n systems
WRITE
WRITE

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Named Functions
Make platform easier to build
● Goal is code reusability
○ Define “flux” code once
○ Register as Named Function
○ Invoke multiple times with
different values as params
● Power tasks, triggers,
dashboard cells with
common Named Functions
Task == Function (Schedule, Arguments)

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Managed Functions
Make platform easier to build
● Goal is make the platform
do more for you
● Two main use cases:
○ Pre-process data before
writing into InfluxDB
○ Post-process rows returned
from querying InfluxDB
● MVP - Run your python
code as managed function
that can be invoked
remotely
InfluxDB
Cloud
Python code as
Managed Function

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Make data movement easier
Data Import/Export Cloud Integration Telegraf 1.19
• Bulk import of data
from different
sources / formats:
– Line protocol
– CSV
– TSM files (1.x)
– Parquet
• Bucket backup
– Restore to OSS /
Cloud
• Bulk export of data
– Parquet
• Cloud Native
integration:
– Connect with cloud
native messaging
service ( e.g. AWS
Kinesis, Azure
EventHub)
• Direct ingest using
supported formats
to specific buckets
• SQL focus
– Generic SQL Input Plugin
– PostgreSQL Output Plugin
– SQL Server Plugin
enhancements
• Parsers
– Prometheus Remote Write
Parser
– Apache Avro Parser
• Input
– Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun) Input
– KNX Input Plugin

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Global Distribution
Run where you are / Pay how you want
• Available across all
super regions (N.
America, Europe,
APAC)
– AWS AP (Sydney)
– Azure Europe (North)
– AWS Europe (Ireland)
– Other APAC*
• Marketplace
integration (AWS, GCP,
Azure)
– Annual offers *
Multi-Cloud +
Global
Distribution
US (Oregon)
US(Virginia)
EU(Frankfurt)
US (Iowa)
EU (Belgium)
US (Virginia)
EU
(Netherlands)
* Coming Later

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Summary - Roadmap closely shaped by customer input
1. Strategic partnership with
top tier customers who will
scale and grow on Cloud
2. Get iterative feedback on
key product evolution
3. Design and Early Access
partners
Photo by Charles Deluvio on Unsplash
Currently running feedback sessions for Managed Functions. Use this to book
your session - https://calendly.com/balaji-p/60min

19. Thank You
Questions?
Email: balaji@influxdata.com
Slack @Balaji Palani on the community slack
(https://influxcommunity.slack.com/)
Book an hour with PM - https://calendly.com/balaji-p/60min

20. We look forward to bringing together our
community of developers to learn, interact
and share tips and use cases.
10-11 May 2021
Hands-On Flux Training
18-19 May 2021
Virtual Experience
www.influxdays.com/emea-2021-virtual-experience/