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Announcing InfluxDB, Telegraf, Kapacitor and Enterprise 1.0 RC1

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Granted Influxdata needs to eat, which is fine--and it's a product worth paying for--but they handed us a choice between an unanticipated expense versus reevaluating the market when they changed business models after we had selected them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11262318

https://influxdata.com/blog/update-on-influxdb-clustering-hi...

Congrats to Paul & InfluxData team! Your stack is so great!

A few questions - nothing extremely important but something that I was wondering about in the last few months:

1. Is there any reason for still using md5 instead of sha256 for packages and archives?

2. Do you have any plans for maintaining proper package repos? E.g. something like packagecloud?

1. No reason really, we should probably update. 2. We do have repos, just noticed that they're not listed on the downloads page. See this page for details:

http://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v0.13/introduction/insta...

Apologies for being a PITA, looks like apt repo still `beta3`: https://repos.influxdata.com/debian/pool/unstable/i/influxdb...

Looking forward to 1.0 final. InfluxDB is great, our only gripe so far is that it changes so fast that we just don't have the time to keep up with new versions. Hopefully with 1.0 final the team can finally have a stable version with somewhat long term support.

That's the plan. No breaking API changes for a long time. We'll have additive stuff in the 1.x point releases. Tentative plan is to cut 1.1 two months after 1.0 with patch releases in the interim for any necessary bug fixes.

Nice. When are you planning to start building your RPMs and DEBs properly instead of making a mess with FPM? Now that you appear to earn money, you should be able to afford a sysadmin to teach you how to do that.

But your download page is awful. You mess with my mouse scroll, so it moves just a tiny bit on each move, and pop up the annoying survey on every refresh/page load.

The mouse scroll override is extremely frustrating with a trackpad. Any site that does that just doesn't care about their users having a terrible experience. Mice and trackpads are already configured to a users preference - why push a custom movement, because the UX designer thought they knew better?

So I'm super-happy with influxdb for my time series storage; currently using collectd for input and grafana for output, because at the time influxdata only had a single product - since I've already got those set up, is there any point switching to telegraf and chronograf?

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