InfluxDB and Grafana worked great for us when I created a live monitoring system for a fleet of prototype test robots. It was simple to set up new data streams. We started with Graphite but switched to InfluxDB for it's flexibility (Grafana works with both!)

I would add to the guide that you need to be careful about formatting the lines into InfluxDB because where you out the space and commas determines what is indexed or not! Also data types should be specific (ie make sure you are setting integer vs float correctly).