I've advocated for and implemented several InfluxDB installations in production over the last year+, and one of the considerations was always that non-alpha (prod-ready) clustering was always promised in the 'next version' that was just around the corner.
Several months ago it seemed clear that the team was overly optimistic, and it's just disappointing to see that now the clustering will be available only in a paid (minimum $400!) option or on their hosted service.
I understand the business considerations here, but it feels like a bait n' switch for all the people who evaluated/used InfluxDB in single-node operation as a temporary measure while giving the team ample time to work out the clustering kinks.
Lesson learned I guess... but dang what an expensive lesson.
I agree, I've invested a bit of time building a monitoring stack with influx, and one of the main reasons I chose it was development velocity vs some of the competition. And from a while back, clustering was supposed to be a top-level issue, coming just around the corner. At this point I'm going to have to bite the bullet and go with a more cumbersome but mature solution, like opentsdb.
I'm sorry for the disappointment and understand your frustration. Our hope is that for users for whom a commercial solution isn't an option, there will be open source methods to do what they need.
We're comitted to continued innovation in the open source InfluxDB and see this as one of the avenues for ensuring that we can continue those open source contributions.
Several months ago it seemed clear that the team was overly optimistic, and it's just disappointing to see that now the clustering will be available only in a paid (minimum $400!) option or on their hosted service.
I understand the business considerations here, but it feels like a bait n' switch for all the people who evaluated/used InfluxDB in single-node operation as a temporary measure while giving the team ample time to work out the clustering kinks.
Lesson learned I guess... but dang what an expensive lesson.