Metrics is certainly one use case that people pay us for. With v3, we expect that real-time analytics and some more data warehousing types of use cases will become interesting. We always envisioned InfluxDB as a store for observational data of all kinds, not just metrics.
On how we make money, we sell our products. We have at this time:
- InfluxDB v1 Enterprise (a self-managed, clustered implementation of InfluxDB)
- InfluxDB v1 Cloud (Enterprise, but as as single-tenant managed service. We still run this for hundreds of customers)
- InfluxDB v2 Cloud (multi-tenant, usage based, we're running this for thousands of customers)
- InfluxDB v3 Serverless (multi-tenant, usage based v3)
- InfluxDB v3 Cloud Dedicated (single-tenant, resource based pricing)
- InfluxDB v3 Clustered (self-managed v3, clustered database)
We'll have single server versions in the future, but we're a bit off from that. Right now our focus is on continuing support for our v1 and v2 customers, and further developing our v3 products for new customers and customers that want to migrate over.