> they did remove clustering in the open source version which was a very poor move from a PR perspective. And in my view, they have never recovered from it
I still remember this. We were ready to standardize on InfluxDB when we got a taste of their business practices.
Same, we were just about to choose InfluxDB, and ended up using it only for a niche low criticity scenario (VMware vSphere metrics, mostly for troubleshooting). We were never going to purchase Enterprise though, so they haven't lost anything outside of mindshare and champions, which can be evaluated to between 0 and infinity.
I still remember this. We were ready to standardize on InfluxDB when we got a taste of their business practices.