Today, InfluxData has joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), a non-profit organization that sustains and integrates open source technologies such as Kubernetes and Prometheus, to contribute its expertise in time series analytics of metrics and events. Through its membership, InfluxData aims to work with other CNCF members to define and support a standardized metric format, which will give the industry a consistent way to track and define metrics in a vendor-neutral manner. This standardization is expected to reduce vendor lock-in and make it easier for developers to build tools for observability. InfluxData's commitment to open source and driving adoption of standards around metrics will enable developers to solve real business problems faster.