Regarding the question: > Is there a way to only allow the insert of the estimated value in case there is no actual measurement already in place?
Not currently. The only way to do this would be to query for the data first to see if there is a gap. On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 10:18 AM, 'Sebastian Voss' via InfluxData < [email protected]> wrote: > I'm want to write a data stream of temperature reading to InfluxDB > (timestamp, weather station and temperature value). Normally the data is > reported every 10 minutes. But sometimes there are data gaps and therefore > I implemented a scheduled process to fill those gaps. It runs every hour, > calculates an estimated values and fills the missing points in InfluxDB > (adding an "estimated=true" field). At the same time the weather station is > sometimes sending missing data points later on. In case this happens while > my gap filling process is running it can happen that actual values are > overridden by estimated values. > > Is there a way to only allow the insert of the estimated value in case > there is no actual measurement already in place? > > My current assumption is that I have to write the estimated flag to a tag > (instead of field) to essentially create different series. The drawback if > that my client code needs to filter out estimated values in they co-exist > with actual measurement for the same timestamp. > > -- > Remember to include the version number! > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "InfluxData" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/influxdb. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/influxdb/0f42bacd-fd61-43e9-9a7d-ab9f73cd61ee%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/influxdb/0f42bacd-fd61-43e9-9a7d-ab9f73cd61ee%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Remember to include the version number! --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "InfluxData" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/influxdb. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/influxdb/CAD8sRLB46iYnv%2Bc9PVokkHAO4WOwt%3DyYx0MKu8hYqzAB7tqGAg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
