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Introduction to the TIG Stack

The TIG Stack is an acronym for a platform of open-source tools built to make collection, storage, graphing, and alerting on time-series data easy.

A time series is simply any set of values with a timestamp where time is a meaningful data component. A classic real-world example of a time series is currency exchange rate data.

Some widely used tools are:

• Telegraf is a metrics collection agent. Use it to collect and send metrics to InfluxDB. Telegraf’s plugin architecture supports collection of metrics from 100+ popular services right out of the box.
• InfluxDB is a high-performance Time Series Database. It can store hundreds of thousands of points per second. The InfluxDB SQL-like query language was built specifically for time series.
• Grafana is an open-source platform for data visualization, monitoring and analysis. In Grafana, users can create dashboards with panels, each representing specific metrics over a set time frame. Grafana supports graph, table, heatmap, and free-text panels.

In this Lab, we will use the Docker container platform. We will use the following images:

• https://hub.docker.com/_/telegraf
• https://hub.docker.com/_/influxdb
• https://hub.docker.com/r/grafana/grafana

Getting started with InfluxDB

InfluxDB is a time-series database compatible with SQL, making it easy to set up a database and a user. In a terminal, execute the following: docker run -d -p 8086:8086 --name=influxdb influxdb:1.8

Now we connect to the CLI (Command Line Interface):
docker exec -it influxdb influx

You will get something like: