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Re:Monitoring your own infrastructure using Grafana, InfluxD... by aeyes on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @03:51PM (#23910267)
The linked scripts are not part of the base installation yet TimescaleDB claims, for example, Prometheus support.

If you design your own schema and want to filter on such a dynamic tag field you have to replicate what they have implemented in these scripts. If you look at the code you'll see that this isn't exactly easy and other products do this out of the box.

I use TimescaleDB and have suffered from this, otherwise I wouldn't be talking here. Another problem is that these scripts are not compatible with all versions of TimescaleDB so you have to be careful when updating either one.

Re:Monitoring your own infrastructure using Grafana, InfluxD... by thibauts on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @01:13PM (#23908697)
I’m really sad to see this kind of tone more and more in HN comments...
Re:Monitoring your own infrastructure using Grafana, InfluxD... by doublesCs on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @03:39PM (#23910146)
I find it sadder that people talk such glaring nonsense and are taken seriously. Extremely sad.
Re:Monitoring your own infrastructure using Grafana, InfluxD... by gen220 on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @05:15PM (#23911084)
IMO, the HN guidelines are pretty clear and reasonable regarding these situations.

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

The original poster was making an assertion that TDB is too complex. As the guidelines suggest, it doesn't help the conversation to assume that they arrived upon this conclusion unreasonably, and that they're irrational or otherwise unwilling to have an open conversation about it.

We have to assume that they are open to a discussion, despite whatever we might interpret as evidence to the contrary.