From the course: InfluxDB for Time Series Data: Ingest, Analyze, and Visualize Data

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Visualizing data: Using data explorer

Visualizing data: Using data explorer

- Once we have streaming data in our influx cloud instance, we can start to see how helpful the visualization tools are. The Data Explorer in influx cloud allows us to build queries through UI or through flux language to view our raw data or the data as a graph, and to download our data as a CSV. The Data Explorer is a great way to poke around and understand your data. You can build queries through the UI dropdown menus or using flux. And, if you want to better understand flux language, this is a nice way to see it in context. We're going to go ahead and drill into the telegraph streaming bucket that I have, which contains some of my computer data. We'll look at the CPU measurement, and we'll go ahead and take a look at the idle system and user usage over the total CPU. So, now that I've built that query using the dropdown, I will go ahead and submit, and this is my data over the past hour. You can see that this Data…

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