# About the Welcome & Getting Started category

**URL:** <https://community.influxdata.com/t/about-the-welcome-getting-started-category/9597>\
**Category:** Welcome & Getting Started\
**Created:** [April 26, 2019, 1:55pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/about-the-welcome-getting-started-category/9597 "2019-04-26T13:55:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![thomcrowe](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/thomcrowe/32/2580_2.png) [@thomcrowe](https://community.influxdata.com/u/thomcrowe)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2019, 1:55pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/about-the-welcome-getting-started-category/9597/1 "2019-04-26T13:55:26Z")

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New to InfluxData or just the Community? Start here. We’ve got resources, links, and information that you’ll want to check out. Plus, every Friday, we’ll post an update with news, releases, and articles from the previous week in our Getting Started Weekly Update.

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**Author:** ![spaster](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/spaster/32/3674_2.png) [@spaster](https://community.influxdata.com/u/spaster)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 6:05pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/about-the-welcome-getting-started-category/9597/2 "2019-10-30T18:05:12Z")

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My company already sends MQTT based metrics to Google Cloud’s IoT core (Pub/Sub). We would like to create a InfluxDB instance load metrics from Pub/Sub. Is there a there a good tutorial or guide for doing this?

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**Author:** ![dbrown1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/958977/32.png) [@dbrown1](https://community.influxdata.com/u/dbrown1)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2021, 7:26pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/about-the-welcome-getting-started-category/9597/3 "2021-05-02T19:26:25Z")

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Hi, new user, how & where can I post my questions?