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Promscale: An analytical platform and long-term store for Prometheus, with the combined power of SQL and PromQL

Promscale: An analytical platform and long-term store for Prometheus, with the combined power of SQL and PromQL

We just announced Promscale: a new open-source analytical platform & long-term store for Prometheus, with the combined power of SQL and PromQL. Learn why we built it, how it works, and how to get started right away.

How FlightAware fuels flight prediction models for global travelers with TimescaleDB and Grafana

How FlightAware fuels flight prediction models for global travelers with TimescaleDB and Grafana

Learn how FlightAware architected a monitoring system - combining TimescaleDB, Grafana, and Docker - that allows them to power real-time flight predictions, analyze prediction performance, and continuously improve their models.

How we are building a self-sustaining open-source business in the cloud era (version 2)

How we are building a self-sustaining open-source business in the cloud era (version 2)

We're excited to announce an update to the Timescale License that provides expanded rights to our users. Learn how (and why) we're making all of our features 100% free and investing in our community – while still building a sustainable open-source business.

Top 5 PostgreSQL Extensions

Top 5 PostgreSQL Extensions

At Timescale, we’re big fans of PostgreSQL. We asked our team and community to recommend their favorite PostgreSQL extensions. Here’s what they said...

A multi-cloud, fully-managed service for time-series data, now available in AWS, Azure, and GCP with 75+ regions and 2,000 configurations

A multi-cloud, fully-managed service for time-series data, now available in AWS, Azure, and GCP with 75+ regions and 2,000 configurations

Timescale Cloud, the leading cloud service for time-series data, is now even more powerful, offering the most cloud provider and region support, best performance, scale, and developer experience of any managed service for time-series data.

Speed up Grafana by auto-switching between different aggregations, using PostgreSQL

Speed up Grafana by auto-switching between different aggregations, using PostgreSQL

Learn how (and why) to use PostgreSQL and TimescaleDB to speed up your Grafana drill downs: step-by-step guide to enable "auto-switching" between aggregations, depending on the time interval.

How I power a (successful) crypto trading bot with TimescaleDB

How I power a (successful) crypto trading bot with TimescaleDB

Learn how Felipe Queis uses TimescaleDB to power his crypto trading bot – and how his side project influenced his team’s decision to adopt TimescaleDB for their work *and* resulted in several successful crypto trades.

How to visualize timeshifts to compare metrics over time in Grafana using PostgreSQL

How to visualize timeshifts to compare metrics over time in Grafana using PostgreSQL

Learn how (and why) to combine PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB, and Grafana to visualize timeshifts and compare how your time-series metrics change over time.

TimescaleDB vs. InfluxDB: Purpose built differently for time-series data

Product & Engineering

TimescaleDB vs. InfluxDB: Purpose built differently for time-series data

An in-depth look into how two leading time-series databases stack up in terms of data model, query language, reliability, performance, ecosystem, operational management, and company/community support.

[Recap, Resources & More] DataPub #4
Cataloging the World: Medicine, Tweets, and Beyond

[Recap, Resources & More] DataPub #4 Cataloging the World: Medicine, Tweets, and Beyond

Learn how our community guest speakers catalog the thousands of pharmaceutical drugs on the market and the never-ending stream of Twitter data – and how to start exploring these datasets for your projects.

How WsprDaemon combines TimescaleDB and Grafana to measure and analyze radio transmissions

How WsprDaemon combines TimescaleDB and Grafana to measure and analyze radio transmissions

The creators of WsprDaemon share how they combine TimescaleDB & Grafana to allow amateur radio enthusiasts to analyze radio transmission data and understand trends - be it their own personal noise levels or much larger space weather patterns.

9 Reasons to Choose Timescale vs. Influx and AWS Timestream

9 Reasons to Choose Timescale vs. Influx and AWS Timestream

Why should you choose TimescaleDB over InfluxDB or AWS Timestream as your time-series database of choice? Let us count the ways (9 to be exact).

13 tips to improve PostgreSQL Insert performance

13 tips to improve PostgreSQL Insert performance

Some of these may surprise you, but all 13 ways will improve ingest (INSERT) performance using PostgreSQL and TimescaleDB (and help you get ingest rates similar to our benchmark blog posts 🎊)

[New Webinar] Grafana 101 Part III: Interactivity, Templating and Sharing

[New Webinar] Grafana 101 Part III: Interactivity, Templating and Sharing

Take your dashboards to the next level with step-by-step demos, queries, and pro tips that’ll get you creating interactive, reusable, and shareable Grafana dashboards in less time.

Timescale stands with the Black community

Timescale stands with the Black community

Timescale stands with the Black community. Timescale stands against racism and hate.

[Recap, Resources & More] DataPub #3
Solving Urban Mysteries with Open Data

[Recap, Resources & More] DataPub #3 Solving Urban Mysteries with Open Data

Learn how our May DataPub guest speakers solve "urban mysteries" - like subway ridership trends and regional property history - and make public data accessible and usable for citizens, organizations, and policymakers.

“Grafana 101: Getting Started with Alerting” Recap and Resources

“Grafana 101: Getting Started with Alerting” Recap and Resources

Get step-by-step demos and learn how to define 3 different alert rules and send notifications through channels like Slack, PagerDuty and OpsGenie

A multi-node, elastic, petabyte scale, time-series database on Postgres for free (and more ways we are investing in our community)

A multi-node, elastic, petabyte scale, time-series database on Postgres for free (and more ways we are investing in our community)

We’re officially making multi-node TimescaleDB, a petabyte-scale distributed time-series database on PostgreSQL available for free – and investing in our community in other ways as well.

How clevabit builds a data pipeline to turn agricultural IoT data into insights for farmers everywhere

How clevabit builds a data pipeline to turn agricultural IoT data into insights for farmers everywhere

Christoph Engelbert, clevabit co-founder, joins us to share the work they’re doing to power sustainable and transparent farming and how they’re giving farmers, mills, and consumers the metrics they need to make decisions.

[New Webinar] Grafana 101 Part II: Getting Started with Alerts

[New Webinar] Grafana 101 Part II: Getting Started with Alerts

Jumpstart your monitoring journey with step-by-step demos, queries, and pro tips that'll get you set up with custom notifications for incidents in your systems, so you can take action immediately.