Increasing numbers of customers, including pre-sale, are asking about how real time data can be made available to their established systems (eg MES, ERP, Reporting tools). csv or spreadsheet export isn't good enough. Of course we can't get bogged down adding support for every piece of software out there, but we should expose an API for them to work with.
At the moment all we can say is "(we think) there is an API and it should be possible, your tool [MES/ERP/Reporting etc] may already have a plugin for InfluxDB"
We should do better than this, and demonstrate & document how this is done. Hopefully this could be as simple as summarising or linking to guides published by influxdata eg https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v2/reference/api/
tobyaharris
commented
3 months ago
Increasing numbers of customers, including pre-sale, are asking about how real time data can be made available to their established systems (eg MES, ERP, Reporting tools). csv or spreadsheet export isn't good enough. Of course we can't get bogged down adding support for every piece of software out there, but we should expose an API for them to work with.
At the moment all we can say is "(we think) there is an API and it should be possible, your tool [MES/ERP/Reporting etc] may already have a plugin for InfluxDB"
We should do better than this, and demonstrate & document how this is done. Hopefully this could be as simple as summarising or linking to guides published by influxdata eg https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v2/reference/api/