Alan Pope

Developer Advocate, InfluxData

Alan Pope is a Developer Advocate for Telegraf at InfluxData. He’s been an active Open Source contributor for over a decade. Alan previously worked on Ubuntu and in a past life taught SAP training course. In his spare time, he presents a long-running podcast with friends. He enjoys conversations about the intersection of technology and humanity. Alan loves cats.

Talk Title: Data Collection 101

Telegraf, InfluxDB’s native data collector, supports nearly 300 inputs and outputs. Using Telegraf, you can send data from a variety of systems, apps, databases and services in the appropriate format to InfluxDB. This session covers Telegraf plugins and InfluxDB client libraries as well as early access to release candidates. Alan Pope and Sebastian Spaink will highlight recent updates to Telegraf — including the new JSON and XML parsers!

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