I just moved companies from a pure Prometheus stack to an Influx one. Kapacitor is needlessly complex and overkill for what most people need.
There are THREE different ways to query data: InfluxQL, Flux and TICKScripts…all inferior to PromQL imo. The worse is Influx encourages you to mix them (e.g. PromQL in TICK), causing even more confusion. Documentation on advanced use cases is non existent.
Been an absolute nightmare tbh. The new company had a similar evolution too: holding non-metrics data in influx while also holding metrics. Trying to at least move metrics onto a Prom/Thanos stack here soon.
There are THREE different ways to query data: InfluxQL, Flux and TICKScripts…all inferior to PromQL imo. The worse is Influx encourages you to mix them (e.g. PromQL in TICK), causing even more confusion. Documentation on advanced use cases is non existent.
Been an absolute nightmare tbh. The new company had a similar evolution too: holding non-metrics data in influx while also holding metrics. Trying to at least move metrics onto a Prom/Thanos stack here soon.