Jeff Knepper


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How to Setup Redundant Historians

Oct 5, 2018 8:17:32 AM / by Jeff Knepper posted in Canary Historian

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For redundancy, it is recommended you push data from the Canary Collecter and Sender Service to both a primary and secondary Historian’s Receiver Services.  This means that both the primary and secondary Historian are getting the same constant data feed from any Canary Collector.   

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Trend 30 Days of Data for 70 Tags

Aug 7, 2018 8:07:18 AM / by Jeff Knepper posted in Axiom

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Here was the idea.  Let's show how Axiom would perform if we placed 70 individual trends on a single chart.  Each trend polls at one second intervals and updates 100% of the time.  Then, once we have all 70 trends on a single chart, let's call for 30 days of historical values. 

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Have You Heard of Prescriptive Analytics?

Jul 25, 2018 8:39:12 AM / by Jeff Knepper posted in industry 4.0

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No, it's not a typo. I didn't mean predictive. This morning I was reading an article from SparkCognition, "Changing the World by Way of Oil and Gas", and I came across the term for the first time. After some research, here is what I learned.

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IIoT: Progressing from data connection to data insight

Jul 24, 2018 9:33:02 AM / by Jeff Knepper posted in industry 4.0

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The Industrial Internet of Things is changing the way companies operate. Whether you have already adopted an IIoT strategy or are beginning the planning phases of how/where to begin, there are two key elements that you must first focus on. 

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A Thorough Axiom Overview in Under 30 Minutes

Jun 15, 2018 4:42:45 PM / by Jeff Knepper posted in Axiom

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Canary recently hosted it's first Crash Course, a webinar designed to teach you how to functionally use a Canary product in less than 30 minutes.

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Can Cassandra be a Time-Series Database Alternative?

Jun 1, 2018 4:12:03 PM / by Jeff Knepper posted in Canary Historian

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Could Cassandra be optimized to store time-series data? This is a question that has become a common topic for discussion. I recently came across a great read that compares Cassandra performance to another dedicated time-series database, TimescaleDB.

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Transform Your Operation With Digital Solutions

Feb 23, 2018 6:45:49 AM / by Jeff Knepper posted in industry 4.0

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"40 percent of the workforce at electric and gas utilities will be eligible for retirement in the next five years."

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How Does SQL Perform When Compared to Canary?

Feb 20, 2018 9:56:45 AM / by Jeff Knepper posted in Case Studies, Data Historian, Products

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Recently, a system integrator asked us to provide data that would provide both speed and storage requirement comparisons between an out-of-the-box SQL database and Canary.  They wanted to use this data to decide whether it would be best for customer's to deploy a Canary system, or deploy, tune, and maintain an SQL system.

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When Bad Data Affects Reporting, Do This

Jan 31, 2018 8:12:00 AM / by Jeff Knepper posted in Reporting, Ask Gary, Logger

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The thirteenth edition of a Question and Answer column with Gary Stern, President and Founder of Canary Labs. Have a question you would like me to answer? Email askgary@canarylabs.com  
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The Lost Art of Service

Dec 26, 2017 6:17:00 PM / by Jeff Knepper posted in Ask Gary

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The twelfth edition of a weekly Question and Answer column with Gary Stern, President and Founder of Canary Labs. Have a question you would like me to answer? Email askgary@canarylabs.com  
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