Inductive Automation Blog

Ignition Historian

A deeper dive into historian will be provided, including a review of the recent guidance document, benchmarks, and practical architecture for large scale data storage. Additionally, this is set up as an open Q&A, so bring your questions from any topic.

How to Optimize the Performance of Ignition

In this session, we are going to discuss the different optimization strategies for Ignition. It is important to fully understand everything that an Ignition server is executing in order to find ways to increase the performance and allow for more scalability. We will also discuss any open questions.

Python Deep Dive

If you've ever wondered what's behind the scenes in Ignition, or you're hoping to use external libraries or Python's package management through pip with Ignition, you won't want to miss this. We'll cover Jython, Python 2.7 and 3, options for running Python 3 code, external library and site-packages support, and more.

Enterprise Architectures and Cloud Architectures, Gateway Network, and Support Changes

Using Ignition in wide deployments, whether in enterprise networks or cloud systems, has become very common. Learn about architectures that are needed to support this, Gateway Network configuration, and automatic features like History splitting and intelligent location querying. Additionally, some changes are coming to Ignition's support packages that we'll discuss.

Deeper Look Into Ignition 8.1

Join us for a deeper look into Ignition's 8.1 features: Perspective Workstation, Perspective Symbols, Perspective Power Chart, DB Table History Provider, Full IdP Support, Designer Tag Browser Redesign, Quick Start Mode, Docker Hub support, and more. Please come with any questions you have on 8.1!

Ignition & AWS IoT SiteWise Integration

Join Arlen Nipper from Cirrus Link to learn how to seamlessly go from edge to cloud using Ignition and fully leveraging AWS IoT SiteWise to help you make better, data-driven decisions. As always, this is also an open Q&A, where we can discuss any other Ignition related topics.

Ignition 8 Updates

Learn about what's new with Ignition 8. We will discuss the new BACnet driver, theming in Perspective, new Perspective components, new tag permission model, and Gateway level auditing. Bring your questions for the open style Q&A at the end.

Security Hardening Guide & Perspective Quick Dashboard

Learn about what's new in the updated Security Hardening Guide, get a walk-through of the updated Dashboard Project Template, and bring your questions for an open style Question & Answer session.