Paul Dix: Telegraf is likely on tens to hundreds of millions of servers
Paul Dix · What's Next for Open-Source Time Series Data? // Paul Dix, Influx Data (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC) · Jun 12, 2019 · at 7:44
Paul Dix is the founder and CTO of InfluxData. Telegraf is InfluxData's open-source metrics collection agent.
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“This project actually is our most popular open source project by far. We don't have any sort of tracking on it right now, but I would estimate that it's probably deployed on tens of millions of servers across the world, if not hundreds of millions at this point.”
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