Recently, we took a look at visualizing our time series data from InfluxDB using the graphing library plotly.js (see post here), which offers over 20 different charting types. It packages everything neatly so that it is easy for users to reproduce graphs of their own style and choosing. Today, we'll take a look at pulling our data from InfluxDB and displaying it with the Rickshaw library, which, like plotly.js, is built on d3.js. The Rickshaw toolkit offers users the ability to create custom interactive time series graphs, giving users access to a broad array of styles and a score of different elements-renderers, legends, hovers, and range selectors-with which to construct their graphs.
Before we get started, of course, you'll need to ensure you have an instance of InfluxDB up and running on your local machine. Here's a great site to getting the TICK Stack all set up and doing things on your machine — the aptly named Getting Started guide on the InfluxData site supplies documentation that will walk you through installing and running all four packages of the stack. You can also try experimenting in sandbox mode.
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