My client’s data arrives from IoT devices every ten seconds. We would like to set up a downsampling and retention policy that downsamples data to X second intervals after Y minutes and deletes it after a year. (I’m checking on X and Y, but that’s probably not relevant.)
I’ve read the Downsampling and Data Retention guide and I understand how to retain the data for a year. But downsampling leaves me with two questions:
- For downsampling we need to thin the existing measurement rather than creating a new measurement (…because we don’t control the client that subscribes to the database). What’s the best way to do that?
- The Downsampling and Data Retention guide explains why it’s necessary to set up a Continuous Query before creating the database. In our case, we need to apply the thinning post-facto once before a CQ can take over the job. How is that done?
