Downsampling Guide, Single-Edit Telegraf Fleets, and more

What's New with InfluxDB Newsletter Updates: September 2, 2026

Product Telegraf Controller 1.1: Change Every Config, Fleet Wide, With a Single Edit Telegraf is easy to stand up. You just need a config file with a few plugins and data flows. That ease is why Telegraf fleets grow fast, and why managing the agents that collect data becomes more difficult than collecting it. Read the Release

Blog A Guide to Downsampling Time Series Data with InfluxDB 3 High-resolution data is valuable while diagnosing a recent event, but its value often changes as it ages. A temperature reading collected every second may be useful for an active incident, while a daily report may only need 10-minute or hourly averages. Read Article

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Democratizing Breach Detection: How SMBs Can Build Their Own Time Series Security Monitor

When people hear that the average breach lifecycle still spans hundreds of days, they often blame inefficiency or apathy. The reality is that most teams, especially those in SMBs, are flying blind and relying on logs scattered across dozens of SaaS platforms. The information needed to understand a breach is there, but it often sits behind paywalls or is delivered without enough context to form a coherent picture.

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