[pauldix]

We're working on a re-envisioned Chronograf. The goal is to have something that's complementary to Grafana. Most of our users love Grafana and that's good.

The next version of Chronograf, coming later this year, will be a re-envisioned and fully open source version. It won’t be about dashboards, it’ll be about an out of the box user experience for monitoring containers, Kubernetes, and Docker Swarm.

We're actually looking for early testers that want to walk through wireframes and work with us on making a great out of the box experience for what will be a fully open source monitoring stack.

[zenlot]

Until you'll decide to make some of the features just for enterprise, as you did with InfluxDB?

[dominotw]

Just exploring this for devops at work. This comment makes me a little worried. Is there a risk that some features will go 'enterprise only' in future?

[pauldix]

Our enterprise offering is for HA and scale out clusters of InfluxDB.

InfluxDB single server, Telegraf, Kapacitor single server, and soon Chronograf are all open source.

We'll continue to heavily develop our open source projects in addition to developing closed source software that we can license to customers. Basically, to be able to continue open source development, we need to have paying customers.

[zenlot]

I don't understand the part of paying customers. Why couldn't you further develop clustering for open source version, as it was first promised and still have paying customers? There are many working examples doing this. Also, this is not a good example for OSS to do as you did with open source/enterprise and clustering bit. At least some explanation or vision could have been provided afterwards.

[iddqd]

Who knows, they've done it before so they could potentially do it again.