The Value of Modern Time Series in the Age of Instrumentation` In the "Age of Instrumentation", cheap sensors, networks, gateways, and cloud-native backends are making it easier to measure change over time, leading to a steady stream of data that can be used with machine learning and AI to act with intent and purpose on the physical world. Time Series Databases (TSDBs) are emerging as a fast-growing category in DBMS platforms, designed for collecting, storing, querying, downsampling, visualizing, and acting upon time-stamped metrics and events from the instrumented world. InfluxData believes that TSDBs will be the foundation of the "Age of Instrumentation", enabling customers to collect, analyze, process, control systems, and predict future behavior in real-time, not just in the physical but also in the virtual world, where software instrumentation is growing rapidly.