Re:A simple way to get more value from metrics
by sciurus on Saturday May 30, 2020 @08:41PM
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Thankfully they still support influxql via transpiling it to flux. They've talked about supporting promql eventually as well.
Tickscript is gone in 2.0, though. I'm not in love with Flux, but I certainly won't miss tickscript.
Re:A simple way to get more value from metrics
by chucky_z on Sunday May 31, 2020 @01:31PM
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Oh, interesting. What's the core difference between Tickscript and Flux? Was Tickscript what Kapacitor used for InfluxDB 1.7?
Re:A simple way to get more value from metrics
by sciurus on Monday June 01, 2020 @12:58PM
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> Was Tickscript what Kapacitor used for InfluxDB 1.7?
Yes. The learning curve was steep, and debugging was near-impossible. Flux is rough too, but it's already getting better documentation and tooling support than Tickscript had.
I'm in the middle of doing a test-run of vmagent + victoria-metrics as a mostly-replacement (see: not replacing the cases where it's known exactly what's wanted, and used explicitly for that), and victoria-metrics fully support telegraf pushes which is a big bonus.
Also they're apparently going to be dropping InfluxQL entirely, for Flux, which is weird to me? The docs don't outright state this, but InfluxDB 2.0 has only Flux examples in the docs I can find. It's a better language, however the learning curve is not trivial.