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Was this an older build? We had serious issues at first, but our setup is pretty stable these days.

Last I tried was 1.0.

I love everything about using Influx but it would die and never restart and every time it would some crash on semacquire. I'll have to try it again since I need to check out this Grafana update anyway.

There's some setup involved if you're sending a decent amount of traffic to it.

The two game changers are using the UDP line protocol instead of HTTP, and making sure you are batch-processing inputs. Fixing these settings is the difference between an instances that crashes all the time, and a purring one.

sending data in batches gives serious performance improvements. Don't send metrics directly to influx from your app. Send them to an intermediary like statsD which will aggregate them and send it.

Shameless plug - I recently published a log router in Golang. It sends data to influx too ! (github.com/agnivade/funnel)

Thank you. I'll check this out.

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