I’ve been a casual user of InfluxDB. Mostly using Telegraf for stuffing MQTT data into Influxdb and Grafana to visualize. I’m using that to save kW data from energy monitoring. I would like to generate hourly kWh data from this rate data, so that I can later use Grafana to capture energy usage per month/week/day, etc. Basically, take the average of the kW data over that hour and generate a single data point that is the kWh energy usage for that hour.
There is a lot of kW data. So I don’t think I can do this wholly within Grafana in real time (too much data to process/integrate). From what I’ve gathered, if I generate hourly kWh data, it’s much more manageable. And it looks like I can do this with continuous queries, Kapacitor, or Flux.
Considering what I’m trying to do, is there an obvious choice? I don’t really understand the pros/cons of each option. Is there another option I should consider? I have Influxdb 1.8.0 running on a few year old Intel i5. I’d prefer something easy to maintain.
