In this webinar, we will provide an introduction to the components of the TICK Stack and a review the features of InfluxEnterprise and InfluxCloud. We also demo how to install the TICK stack.

1. Getting Started Series:
Introduction to the TICK Stack &
InfluxEnterprise

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Agenda
¨ What is the TICK Stack
¨ What is InfluxEnterprise and InfluxCloud
¨ Demo of the installation and use of the TICK Stack

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• High volume of real-time writes
• Irregular (events) and regular (metrics)
• Retention policies
New workload requirements
• Aggregation and summation time-based functions
• Large range scans of many records
• Ordering, ranking, and limiting
Time-based queries
• Distributed by design
• Fast and consistent
• Always available
Scalability and availability
A modern Open Source Platform
built from the ground up for
metrics and events.
The Modern Engine for Metrics and Events

4. Architectural Approach

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InfluxData Architectural Overview

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Why TICK?
¨ Easy to use
¨ No External Dependencies
¨ Allow for metrics and events (regular and
irregular time-series)
¨ Horizontally Scalable
¨ Full Platform - Not just a single tool
¨ Pull and Push for collecting time series

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¨ Plugin-driven server agent for collecting &
reporting metrics
¨ Pull metrics from third party APIs, or even listen
for metrics via a statsd and Kafka consumer
services
¨ Output plugins to send metrics to a variety of
other datastores, services, and message
queues, including
¨ InfluxDB, Graphite, OpenTSDB, Datadog,
Librato, Kafka, MQTT, NSQ, and many
others
¨ Minimal memory footprint
¨ Written entirely in Go. It compiles into a single
binary with no external dependencies

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¨ Custom high performance datastore written
specifically for time series data
¨ The TSM engine allows for high ingest speed &
data compression
¨ Written entirely in Go. It compiles into a single
binary with no external dependencies
¨ Expressive SQL-like query language tailored to
easily query aggregated data
¨ Tags allow series to be indexed for fast and
efficient queries
¨ Retention policies efficiently auto-expire stale data
¨ Supports ephemeral time series (1+ Billion time
series) with TSI

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Load Write Queries Cardinality
without TSI
Cardinality
with TSI
Low <250k/sec <25/sec <100k 1B+
Moderate >500k/sec >25/sec >100K 1B+
High >750k/sec >50/sec >1M 1B+
Performance

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Hardware Recommendation
Load CPU RAM Disk (IOPS)
Must be SSD
Low 4 Cores 4-8G 500
Moderate 6 Cores 8-16G 500-1K
High 8+ Cores 16G+ 1K

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An integrated user experience for the TICK stack:
¨ Administrative capabilities
○ Database creation
○ User management
○ Alert configuration
¨ Data exploration
○ Rapid creation & visualization of queries
○ Custom dashboards using collected
metrics & events
¨ Rapid time to value
○ Pre-built dashboards based on metrics
from Telegraf
¨ Create Kapacitor Tasks
○ Rules
○ TICKscript editor

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¨ Open source data processing framework that
makes it easy to create alerts, run ETL jobs and
detect anomalies
¨ Downsample InfluxDB data
¨ Query data from InfluxDB on a schedule, and
receive data
¨ Perform data transformation and enrichment
¨ Store transformed data back in InfluxDB
¨ Add custom user defined functions to detect
anomalies
¨ Compatible with Prometheus scapers
¨ Integrate with HipChat, OpsGenie, Alerta,
Sensu, PagerDuty, Slack, and more

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Load Tasks Writes Cardinality
Low < 10 < 100k/sec < 100k
Moderate < 100 > 100k/sec > 100K
High > 100 > 300k/sec > 1M
Performance

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Hardware Recommendation
Load Tasks CPU RAM
Low < 10 4 Cores 4-8G
Moderate < 100 6 Cores 8-16G
High > 100 8+ Cores 16G+

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¨ InfluxDB Clustering capabilities:
¨ High-Availability
¨ Scalability
¨ Kapacitor Clustering capabilities:
¨ High-Availability
¨ Scalability (coming)
¨ Enhanced backup and restore
¨ Fine-grained auth
¨ Enhanced Security
¨ Battle Tested and hardened
¨ Enhanced production deployment capabilities
InfluxEnterprise

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¨ InfluxEnterprise
¨ Chronograf
¨ Basic Alerting
¨ Kapacitor Add-on
¨ Fully managed by InfluxData
¨ Monitored by InfluxData team
¨ Fully Optimized
¨ Runs in AWS
InfluxCloud

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Product Offerings
¨ Open Source Core
¨ Extensible
¨ Support for Regular and
Irregular Data
¨ High Availability (Clustering)
¨ Scalability (Clustering)
¨ Advanced Backup and Restore
¨ Complete Platform support
¨ Managed by InfluxData
¨ Runs on AWS
¨ Run on Premises
¨ Open Source Core
¨ Extensible
¨ Support for Regular and
Irregular Data
¨ High Availability (Clustering)
¨ Scalability (Clustering)
¨ Advanced Backup and Restore
¨ Complete Platform support
¨ Managed by InfluxData
¨ Runs on any Cloud
¨ Runs on Premises
¨ Open Source Core
¨ Extensible
¨ Support for Regular and
Irregular Data
¨ High Availability (Clustering)
¨ Scalability (Clustering)
¨ Advanced Backup and Restore
¨ Complete Platform support
¨ Managed by InfluxData
¨ Runs on Cloud
¨ Runs on Premises
InfluxCloud
Great place to start
InfluxEnterprise
Ready to scale
TICK Stack
Open Source

18. Demo

19. Questions?

20. Thank you