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Google Analytics was the go-to analytics tool. It set the standard, we all learned on it, and we all used it. But Google Analytics 4? It’s a nightmare. I’ve tried to figure it out for weeks and it’s just…confusing.

Network Data Analytics Function (NWDAF) is a key component in 5G networks, designed to collect, analyze, and deliver valuable insights to service providers. NWDAF provides an unbiased, vendor-vendor agnostic view of the network, expanding telco visibility beyond traditional use cases. As network complexities grow, service providers require unbiased and accurate data to make informed decisions, driving the demand for vendor agnostic data analytics.

Enterprises have enough data, in fact, they are overwhelmed with it, but finding the nuggets of value amongst the data ‘noise’ is not all that simple. It is bucket’d, blob’d, and bestrewn across the enterprise infrastructure in clouds, filesystems, and hosts machines. It’s logs, metrics, traces, config files, and more, but as Jimmy Buffett says, “we’ve all got ’em, we all want ’em, but what do we do with ’em”.

This article was originally published in The New Stack and is reposted here with permission. It’s tempting to stuff time series data into the familiar Postgres or MySQL database, but that’s a bad idea for many reasons. To the uninitiated or unfamiliar, time series data exhibits similar characteristics to relational data, but the two data types have some critical differences.

Data integrity is becoming increasingly important as business data competencies mature. From companies leveraging data to drive business decisions to individuals relying on secure data storage — it's clear that having trust in the accuracy and consistency of your data is essential. With the rise of applications using data for business analysis, there's a greater emphasis on having strong data integrity. Therefore, it's critical to understand what data integrity is and why it matters.

InfluxDB Cloud 3.0 is a versatile time series database built on top of the Apache ecosystem. You can query InfluxDB Cloud with the Apache Arrow Flight SQL interface, which provides SQL support for working with time series data. In this tutorial, we will walk through the process of querying InfluxDB Cloud with Flight SQL, using Java. The Java Flight SQL Client is part of Apache Arrow Flight, a framework for building high-performance data services.

I’m delighted to share that version 7.2 of eG Enterprise has introduced support for performance monitoring of Snowflake databases. eG Enterprise’s integration with Snowflake enables complete visibility into the Snowflake architecture and operations, alongside the performance and costs of any dependent cloud hosted infrastructures such as AWS or Azure.