Observability

Get Down(sampled) With Prometheus Recording Rules in Promscale

18 May 2022 4 min read

You can now configure Recording Rules directly in Promscale using PromQL and the same configuration file you would use in Prometheus!

Observability

No-Fuss Alerting: Introducing Prometheus Alerts in Promscale

17 May 2022 4 min read

Promscale now supports Prometheus alerting! You can directly configure Promscale alerts using PromQL queries to get notified when any of your metrics goes off, helping you identify anomalies early.

Observability

Observability Powered by SQL: Understand Your Systems Like Never Before With OpenTelemetry Traces and PostgreSQL

16 May 2022 13 min read

Learn how observability powered by SQL can help you unveil performance issues in your distributed systems, courtesy of the now generally available OpenTelemetry tracing support in Promscale.

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Events & Recaps

Five Lessons for Managing Growth and Career Development in Software Companies

12 May 2022 12 min read

Managing career growth and development can be tricky, especially in fast-paced software companies. Drawing from personal experience, Timescale’s VP of Engineering shares five lessons for healthy and productive organizations.

Observability

A Deep Dive Into OpenTelemetry Metrics

10 May 2022 11 min read

An introduction to the OpenTelemetry metrics standard. This post is the second of a three-part series on all things metrics.

PostgreSQL

Point-in-Time PostgreSQL Database and Query Monitoring With pg_stat_statements

3 May 2022 15 min read

The pg_stat_statements extension strikes again. Learn how to store metrics snapshots regularly and move from static, cumulative information to time-series data for more efficient database monitoring.

Newsletter

Timescale Newsletter Roundup: April 2022

1 May 2022 5 min read

A recap of April with lots of events to update your technical knowledge, blog posts on the four types of Prometheus metrics, and how you can improve your PostgreSQL database performance, plus video lessons and industry discussions.

PostgreSQL

Teaching Elephants to Fish

27 Apr 2022 13 min read

Timescale's developer advocate Ryan Booz reflects on the PostgreSQL community and shares five ideas on how to improve it.

Dev Q&A

How Edeva Uses Continuous Aggregations and IoT to Build Smarter Cities

22 Apr 2022 8 min read

Swedish company Edeva is making a real impact in city life by quickly presenting decision-makers with trends based on IoT data.

Observability

A Deep Dive Into the Four Types of Prometheus Metrics

14 Apr 2022 13 min read

In this introduction to the different open-source metrics standards, we focus on the Prometheus metric types. This post is the first of a three-part series on all things metrics.

Newsletter

Timescale Newsletter Roundup: March 2022

1 Apr 2022 6 min read

In this edition, we include new episodes of our Women in Tech series, a developer story from our friends at Speedscale, and assorted tutorials, events, and how-to content to help you continue your journey to PostgreSQL and time-series data mastery.

PostgreSQL

Identify PostgreSQL Performance Bottlenecks With pg_stat_statements

30 Mar 2022 11 min read

Goodbye, bottlenecks. Hello, performance. Use the pg_stat_statements PostgreSQL extension to uncover performance issues in Timescale Cloud.

Announcements & Releases

Introducing One-Click Database Forking in Timescale Cloud

29 Mar 2022 7 min read

Create a copy of your database in one click, enabling easier creation of testing environments, snapshots of data, maintenance of up-to-date staging environments, safer upgrades, and more.

Cloud

High Availability for Your Production Environments: Introducing Database Replication in Timescale Cloud

28 Mar 2022 13 min read

Timescale Cloud now supports database replication, allowing you to significantly reduce potential downtime in your production database in case of failure and to improve performance through the use of read replicas.

Observability

OpenTelemetry and Python: A Complete Instrumentation Guide

23 Mar 2022 15 min read

Learn how to instrument Python code with OpenTelemetry, both manually and using auto-instrumentation.

Dev Q&A

Automated Mocking Using API Traffic: Speedscale's Story

15 Mar 2022 7 min read

Learn how Speedscale architected its data stack to help Kubernetes engineering teams validate the performance of a new code in production-like conditions.

Dev Q&A

CloudQuery on using PostgreSQL for cloud assets visibility

1 Mar 2022 5 min read

Our friends from CloudQuery join us to share how they've set up their data stack to extract, transform, and load cloud assets data into normalized PostgreSQL tables.

Newsletter

Timescale Newsletter Roundup: February 2022

25 Feb 2022 6 min read

In this month’s newsletter edition, we’re bringing you some product updates ✨ including two new storage autoscaling for multi-node services in Timescale Cloud!

Engineering

How to build TimescaleDB on Docker

25 Feb 2022 9 min read

Are you building TimescaleDB in Docker? This blog post walks you through everything you need to know, including step-by-step instructions and best practices.

Observability

Learn OpenTelemetry tracing with this lightweight microservices demo

24 Feb 2022 26 min read

Deploy this simple microservices demo and learn how to get unprecedented insights about your systems! The demo application is instrumented with OpenTelemetry, and it includes six powerful Grafana dashboards built with traces and SQL.

General

Increase your storage savings with TimescaleDB 2.6: Introducing compression for continuous aggregates

23 Feb 2022 12 min read

Timescale 2.6 is now available, introducing two highly requested features by our community: compression for continuous aggregates and timezone support for continuous aggregates (the latter under experimental).

Announcements & Releases

Year of the Tiger: $110 million to build the future of data for developers worldwide

22 Feb 2022 9 min read

Timescale just raised $110 million in our Series C, led by Tiger Global alongside all existing investors: Benchmark, New Enterprise Associates, Redpoint Ventures, Icon Ventures, and Two Sigma Ventures.