Timescale Blog

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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).

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.

How Trading Strategy built a data stack for crypto quant trading

10 Feb 2022 5 min read

Our friends from Trading Strategy join us to share how they’ve set up their data stack to ingest, integrate and analyze data about thousands of crypto assets and smart contracts to power their decentralized trading service.

Listening to the developer community yields benefits: Introducing Timescale’s community forum

10 Feb 2022 3 min read

We are announcing Timescale Community Forum, a new place for your questions, discussions, and help. 🎉

Select the most recent record (of many items) with PostgreSQL

4 Feb 2022 17 min read

Get five methods for retrieving the most recent data for each item in your PostgreSQL database quickly and efficiently.

How to turn Timescale Cloud into an observability backend with Promscale

2 Feb 2022 19 min read

Learn everything you need to know about how to integrate Timescale Cloud and Promscale with a Kubernetes-based system, including how to optimally configure Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, and Jaeger, and how you can use SQL to analyze your metrics and traces.

Timescale Newsletter Roundup: January 2022

31 Jan 2022 5 min read

Learn about our recent updates in Timescale documentation, upcoming events where you can find us at, plus we're sharing an assortment of tools, tips, and advice for doing more with your time-series data.

How to shape sample data with PostgreSQL generate_series() and SQL

20 Jan 2022 19 min read

Learn how to quickly create recurring time-series data for charting and testing PostgreSQL and TimescaleDB functions.

How to store and analyze NFT data in a relational database

13 Jan 2022 14 min read

Find out how we sourced NFT data and created a schema to store NFT transactions in the open-source relational time-series database, TimescaleDB.

Timescale Newsletter Roundup: December 2021

1 Jan 2022 6 min read

Following the holiday’s spirit, we’re bringing you a (very cloudy) present: two new features in Timescale Cloud ☁️🎁, Promscale 0.7 new release, latest episodes from our Timescale Twitch Shows 📺, a new Developer Q&A, and a list of events we participated in.

Timescale flies when you’re having fun: 2021 in review

22 Dec 2021 6 min read

We're celebrating the accomplishments that made us proud in 2021 - like the advances in Timescale Cloud and TimescaleDB, new hyperfunctions, function pipelines, the support for OpenTelemetry in Promscale, and the many other launches from the year.

Five Lessons for Managing Growth and Career Development in Software Companies