Out-of-this-world monitoring with InfluxDB and React

The article describes a project that tracks the International Space Station's (ISS) position live and documents its journey using InfluxDB, ExpressJS, Telegraf, and Giraffe. The primary components of this project are the Telegraf config, the ExpressJS API server, and the React application. Data is collected from a public API using Telegraf, which then sends the location data to an InfluxDB cloud instance running in AWS. An API is built using ExpressJS to query the InfluxDB instance, and the React app uses InfluxData's Giraffe visualization library to plot the ISS's flight path. The article also discusses how to use Flux queries to shape data and return positional data as a track.