Tutorials

We’ve created a host of code-focused tutorials that will help you get started with TimescaleDB.

Most of these tutorials require a working installation of TimescaleDB.

Start Here - Hello Timescale: If you are new to TimescaleDB or even SQL, check out our tutorial with NYC taxicab data to get an idea of the capabilities our database has to offer.
Time-series Forecasting: Use R, Apache MADlib and Python to perform data analysis and make forecasts on your data.
Analyze Cryptocurrency Data: Use TimescaleDB to analyze historic cryptocurrency data. Learn how to build your own schema, ingest data, and analyze information in TimescaleDB.

Scaling out TimescaleDB: Distribute data across multiple nodes to scale out your TimescaleDB cluster.
Replication: TimescaleDB takes advantage of well established PostgreSQL methods for replication. Here we provide a detailed guide along with additional resources for setting up streaming replicas.
Continuous Aggregates: Getting started with continuous aggregates.

Setup a Prometheus endpoint to monitor Timescale Cloud: Configure Prometheus to collect monitoring data about your Timescale Cloud instance.
Monitoring Django with Prometheus: Learn how to monitor your Django application using Prometheus.

Creating a Grafana dashboard and panel: Basic tutorial on using Grafana to visualize data in TimescaleDB.
Visualize Geospatial data in Grafana: Use the Grafana WorldMap visualization to view your TimescaleDB data.
Use Grafana variables: Filter and customize your Grafana visualizations.
Visualizing Missing Data with Grafana: Learn how to visualize and aggregate missing time-series data in Grafana.
Setting up Grafana alerts: Configure Grafana to alert you in Slack, PagerDuty, and more.

Collecting metrics with Telegraf: Collecting metrics with the PostgreSQL and TimescaleDB output plugin for Telegraf.
Visualize Time-Series Data using Tableau: Learn how to configure Tableau to connect to TimescaleDB and visualize your time-series data.
Migrate from InfluxDB with Outflux: Use our open-source migration tool to transfer your data from InfluxDB to TimescaleDB.

Node and TimescaleDB: A quick start guide for Node developers looking to use TimescaleDB.
Python and TimescaleDB: A quick start guide for Python developers looking to use TimescaleDB.
Ruby on Rails and TimescaleDB: A quick start guide for Ruby on Rails developers looking to use TimescaleDB.
Golang and TimescaleDB: A quick start guide for Golang developers looking to use TimescaleDB.

Sample data sets: And if you want to explore on your own with some sample data, we have some ready-made data sets for you to explore.
Simulate IoT Sensor Data: Simulate a basic IoT sensor dataset on PostgreSQL or TimescaleDB.
psql installation: psql is a terminal-based front-end for PostgreSQL. Learn how to install psql on Mac, Ubuntu, Debian, Windows, and pick up some valuable psql tips and tricks along the way.