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InfluxDB Enterprise provides a time series database designed to handle high write and query loads and offers highly scalable clusters on your infrastructure with a management UI. Use for DevOps monitoring, IoT sensor data, and real-time analytics. Check out the key features that make InfluxDB Enterprise a great choice for working with time series data.

If you’re interested in working with InfluxDB Enterprise, visit InfluxPortal to sign up, get a license key, and get started!

Key features

  • High performance datastore written specifically for time series data. High ingest speed and data compression.
  • Provides high availability across your cluster and eliminates a single point of failure.
  • Written entirely in Go. Compiles into a single binary with no external dependencies.
  • Simple, high performing write and query HTTP APIs.
  • Plugin support for other data ingestion protocols such as Graphite, collectd, and OpenTSDB.
  • Expressive SQL-like query language tailored to easily query aggregated data.
  • Continuous queries automatically compute aggregate data to make frequent queries more efficient.
  • Tags let you index series for fast and efficient queries.
  • Retention policies efficiently auto-expire stale data.

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New in InfluxDB 3.5

Key enhancements in InfluxDB 3.5 and the InfluxDB 3 Explorer 1.3.

See the Blog Post

InfluxDB 3.5 is now available for both Core and Enterprise, introducing custom plugin repository support, enhanced operational visibility with queryable CLI parameters and manual node management, stronger security controls, and general performance improvements.

InfluxDB 3 Explorer 1.3 brings powerful new capabilities including Dashboards (beta) for saving and organizing your favorite queries, and cache querying for instant access to Last Value and Distinct Value caches—making Explorer a more comprehensive workspace for time series monitoring and analysis.

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InfluxDB Docker latest tag changing to InfluxDB 3 Core

On November 3, 2025, the latest tag for InfluxDB Docker images will point to InfluxDB 3 Core. To avoid unexpected upgrades, use specific version tags in your Docker deployments.

If using Docker to install and run InfluxDB, the latest tag will point to InfluxDB 3 Core. To avoid unexpected upgrades, use specific version tags in your Docker deployments. For example, if using Docker to run InfluxDB v2, replace the latest version tag with a specific version tag in your Docker pull command–for example:

docker pull influxdb:2