InfluxData

InfluxData is an American software company that develops time-series data software. It is best known for InfluxDB, an open-source time-series database, and the TICK stack, a set of components that manage data collection, storage, visualization, and processing (Telegraf, InfluxDB, Chronograf, and Kapacitor). The company also maintains Flux, a functional data scripting language used with InfluxDB, and offers cloud-based services under InfluxDB Cloud.

Founded in 2013 by Paul Dix in San Francisco, InfluxData released InfluxDB as an open-source project and began building a broader ecosystem around time-series data. The TICK stack components followed to provide an end-to-end pipeline, and Flux was introduced to offer a flexible querying and processing language. The company has since offered enterprise and cloud deployments to support organizations requiring scalable time-series data solutions.

InfluxDB is optimized for high ingestion rates and efficient queries over time windows. Telegraf collects metrics from various sources; Chronograf provides dashboards and administrative tools; Kapacitor enables real-time processing and alerting. Flux enables data querying and transformation across InfluxDB and other data sources. InfluxDB Cloud is the hosted service, while enterprise offerings provide additional security, governance, and scale for on-premises or private cloud deployments.

Use cases include IoT telemetry, infrastructure and application monitoring, and time-series analytics across industries. The data model centers on measurements, tags, fields, and timestamps, with features such as retention policies and data downsampling to manage storage and query performance.

InfluxData supports an active open-source community and offers documentation, tutorials, and commercial support for its products.