Kafka, Telegraf, and InfluxDB 3 Core Pipeline
InfluxData shared a simple real-time pipeline using Kafka, Telegraf, and InfluxDB 3 Core, with a GitHub sample for turning event streams into scalable dashboards.
The InfluxData GitHub repo shows how to configure Telegraf to subscribe to Kafka topics and write the data into InfluxDB. This pipeline lets you transform real-time event streams into time series data for analysis and visualization. InfluxDB 3.0's columnar storage and SQL support allows for efficient querying and analysis of the ingested data. You can then build dashboards using tools like Grafana to monitor the real-time data flowing through the Kafka-Telegraf-InfluxDB pipeline. This approach provides a scalable architecture for handling high-velocity data streams, which is crucial for real-time monitoring and analytics applications. The combination of Kafka for data ingestion, Telegraf for data collection, and InfluxDB for time series storage offers a complete solution.
