Hulu has successfully scaled its internal application and infrastructure monitoring platform by combining two open source tools - InfluxDB, a time series database, and Kafka, an event-streaming platform. This solution enables Hulu to handle massive volumes of data being written in real-time, while also providing the ability to query that data in real-time for analysis. Similarly, companies like CERN and Robinhood are using InfluxDB and Kafka together to solve problems such as storing large amounts of raw data from experiments or aggregating metrics for anomaly detection. The combination of these two tools provides scalability, fault tolerance, and usability features that abstract away complexity, making it easier for developers to implement common time series workloads. Additionally, a number of tools have been created to make integrating InfluxDB and Kafka easier, such as connectors and plugins.