Get Started with Azure Eastus and InfluxDB Cloud

Azure Eastus is a great choice for hosting your cloud infrastructure, and when paired with InfluxDB Cloud, you can unlock a powerful data management system. InfluxDB Cloud is a scalable and secure time-series database that can handle massive amounts of data.

To get started with Azure Eastus and InfluxDB Cloud, you'll need to create an InfluxDB Cloud account. This can be done in just a few minutes by going to the InfluxDB Cloud website and following the sign-up process.

In Azure Eastus, you can create a new resource group to hold your InfluxDB Cloud instance. This will help you organize your resources and make it easier to manage your cloud infrastructure.

The Azure Eastus region is strategically located in the eastern United States, which can provide lower latency for users in North America.

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Elastic Kibana connectivity issues can be a real problem for Azure Eastus users. StatusGator monitors over 4,000 cloud services, hosted applications, and websites, including Elastic Kibana connectivity: Azure azure-eastus.

Elastic Kibana connectivity: Azure azure-eastus has experienced more than 123 outages since January 2024, which is a significant number. We've collected data on these outages and use it to provide granular uptime metrics and notifications.

StatusGator tracks every reported outage, performance issue, and maintenance window for Elastic Kibana connectivity: Azure azure-eastus, ensuring you're informed about its current status. Our platform has sent more than 300 notifications to users about Elastic Kibana connectivity: Azure azure-eastus incidents, providing transparency and peace of mind.

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InfluxDB Cloud Integration is a powerful tool that allows you to ingest and process time series data from various sources.

InfluxDB Cloud has a broad range of integration points with Azure, including Azure IoT Hub, Windows servers, GitHub, Azure Storage Queues, and SQL Server.

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You can collect IoT device telemetry data from Azure IoT Hub using Telegraf plugins, such as Azure Event Hub, AMQP, MQTT, and HTTPS.

Here are some examples of data ingest options with Telegraf:

InfluxDB Cloud also has a SQL library in its Flux data scripting and query language, which allows you to enrich your time series telemetry with metadata from relational databases, including SQL Server.

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To access InfluxDB Cloud, start by hitting the CreateAccount button and check your email for a message from InfluxDB Cloud.

You'll need to click Verify Your Email and select Microsoft Azure as the location to store your data. Choose Virginia as the region, and you'll be using the InfluxDB Cloud instance for Azure East US.

The InfluxDB Cloud URL for Azure East US is the endpoint of the InfluxDB Cloud API that you'll use when interacting with the InfluxDB API, InfluxDB client libraries, influx CLI, and Telegraf.

You can find the complete list of InfluxDB Cloud URLs for different regions on the InfluxDB documentation page. This means you won't have to worry about inserting the correct URL in code samples, as they will already have it inserted for you.

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Integrate InfluxDB Cloud with Microsoft Azure is a breeze. InfluxDB Cloud has a broad range of integration points with Azure, and Microsoft products in general.

InfluxDB provides a number of options for data ingest, but I'd like to focus on two: Telegraf and Flux. Telegraf, our open source server agent for collecting metrics, can pull data from the following Microsoft technologies:

Flux data scripting and query language has a SQL library that lets you enrich your time series telemetry with metadata from relational databases, including SQL Server. This metadata can include IoT asset information, such as the year, make, and model of a piece of IoT equipment.

Analysis of time series data is handled by InfluxDB itself, which runs on Azure infrastructure in the West EU region in Amsterdam, and by early September, East US in Virginia.

Azure East US is a region that spans across the eastern United States, covering states such as Virginia, North Carolina, and Maryland.

This region is strategically located to provide low-latency access to users on the East Coast, making it an ideal choice for applications that require high availability and fast data processing.

The East US region has multiple availability zones, each with its own set of data centers, to ensure that applications remain available even in the event of a data center failure.

Each availability zone in East US has its own set of redundant systems, including power, cooling, and network infrastructure.

Cost management is a crucial aspect of running a successful Azure Eastus deployment.

You can monitor and control costs by using Azure Cost Estimator, which provides a detailed breakdown of estimated costs for resources and services.

To minimize costs, consider using Azure Reserved VM Instances, which can offer up to 72% savings on Windows virtual machines.

Azure Hybrid Benefit allows you to bring your on-premises Windows Server licenses to Azure and use them to save up to 40% on Windows virtual machines.

Azure Advisor provides cost-saving recommendations based on your usage patterns and resource utilization.

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