InfluxDB Enterprise mode configurations

Meta node configurations

• Global options
• [enterprise]
• [meta]

Meta node configurations

Global options

reporting-disabled = false

InfluxData, the company, relies on reported data from running nodes primarily to track the adoption rates of different InfluxDB versions. These data help InfluxData support the continuing development of InfluxDB.

The reporting-disabled option toggles the reporting of data every 24 hours to usage.influxdata.com. Each report includes a randomly-generated identifier, OS, architecture, InfluxDB version, and the number of databases, measurements, and unique series. Setting this option to true will disable reporting.

Note: No data from user databases are ever transmitted.

bind-address = ""

This setting is not intended for use. It will be removed in future versions.

hostname = ""

The hostname of the meta node. This must be resolvable and reachable by all other members of the cluster.

Environment variable: INFLUXDB_HOSTNAME

[enterprise]

The [enterprise] section contains the parameters for the meta node’s registration with the InfluxDB Enterprise License Portal.

license-key = ""

The license key created for you on InfluxPortal. The meta node transmits the license key to portal.influxdata.com over port 80 or port 443 and receives a temporary JSON license file in return. The server caches the license file locally. You must use the license-path setting if your server cannot communicate with https://portal.influxdata.com.

Use the same key for all nodes in the same cluster.

We recommended performing rolling restarts on the nodes after the license key update. Restart one Meta, Data, or Enterprise service at a time and wait for it to come back up successfully. The cluster should remain unaffected as long as only one node is restarting at a time as long as there are two or more data nodes.

Environment variable: INFLUXDB_ENTERPRISE_LICENSE_KEY

license-path = ""

The local path to the permanent JSON license file that you received from InfluxData for instances that do not have access to the internet. Contact sales@influxdb.com if a licence file is required.

The license file should be saved on every server in the cluster, including Meta, Data, and Enterprise nodes. The file contains the JSON-formatted license, and must be readable by the influxdb user. Each server in the cluster independently verifies its license.

The `license-key` and `license-path` settings are mutually exclusive and one must remain set to the empty string.

We recommended performing rolling restarts on the nodes after the license file update. Restart one Meta, Data, or Enterprise service at a time and wait for it to come back up successfully. The cluster should remain unaffected as long as only one node is restarting at a time as long as there are two or more data nodes.

Environment variable: INFLUXDB_ENTERPRISE_LICENSE_PATH

[meta]

dir = "/var/lib/influxdb/meta"

The location of the meta directory which stores the metastore.

Environment variable: INFLUXDB_META_DIR

bind-address = ":8089"

The bind address(port) for meta node communication. For simplicity, we recommend using the same port on all meta nodes, but this is not necessary.

Environment variable: INFLUXDB_META_BIND_ADDRESS

auth-enabled = false

Set to true to enable authentication. Meta nodes support JWT authentication and Basic authentication. For JWT authentication, also see the shared-secret and internal-shared-secret configuration options.

If set to true, also set the meta-auth-enabled option to true in the [meta] section of the data node configuration file.

Environment variable: INFLUXDB_META_AUTH_ENABLED

http-bind-address = ":8091"

The port used by the influxd-ctl tool and by data nodes to access the meta APIs. For simplicity we recommend using the same port on all meta nodes, but this is not necessary.

Environment variable: INFLUXDB_META_HTTP_BIND_ADDRESS

https-enabled = false

Set to true to if using HTTPS over the 8091 API port. Currently, the 8089 and 8088 ports do not support TLS.

Environment variable: INFLUXDB_META_HTTPS_ENABLED

https-certificate = ""

The path of the certificate file. This is required if https-enabled is set to true.

Environment variable: INFLUXDB_META_HTTPS_CERTIFICATE

https-private-key = ""

The path of the private key file.

Environment variable: INFLUXDB_META_HTTPS_PRIVATE_KEY

https-insecure-tls = false

Set to true to allow insecure HTTPS connections to meta nodes. Use this setting when testing with self-signed certificates.

Environment variable: INFLUXDB_META_HTTPS_INSECURE_TLS

gossip-frequency = "5s"

The frequency at which meta nodes communicate the cluster membership state.

Environment variable: INFLUXDB_META_GOSSIP_FREQUENCY

announcement-expiration = "30s"

The rate at which the results of influxd-ctl show are updated when a meta node leaves the cluster. Note that in version 1.0, configuring this setting provides no change from the user’s perspective.

Environment variable: INFLUXDB_META_ANNOUNCEMENT_EXPIRATION

retention-autocreate = true

Automatically creates a default retention policy (RP) when the system creates a database. The default RP (autogen) has an infinite duration, a shard group duration of seven days, and a replication factor set to the number of data nodes in the cluster. The system targets the autogen RP when a write or query does not specify an RP. Set this option to false to prevent the system from creating the autogen RP when the system creates a database.

Environment variable: INFLUXDB_META_RETENTION_AUTOCREATE

election-timeout = "1s"

The duration a Raft candidate spends in the candidate state without a leader before it starts an election. The election timeout is slightly randomized on each Raft node each time it is called. An additional jitter is added to the election-timeout duration of between zero and the election-timeout. The default setting should work for most systems.

Environment variable: INFLUXDB_META_ELECTION_TIMEOUT

heartbeat-timeout = "1s"

The heartbeat timeout is the amount of time a Raft follower remains in the follower state without a leader before it starts an election. Clusters with high latency between nodes may want to increase this parameter to avoid unnecessary Raft elections.

Environment variable: INFLUXDB_META_HEARTBEAT_TIMEOUT

leader-lease-timeout = "500ms"

The leader lease timeout is the amount of time a Raft leader will remain leader if it does not hear from a majority of nodes. After the timeout the leader steps down to the follower state. Clusters with high latency between nodes may want to increase this parameter to avoid unnecessary Raft elections.

Environment variable: INFLUXDB_META_LEADER_LEASE_TIMEOUT

consensus-timeout = "30s"

Environment variable: INFLUXDB_META_CONSENSUS_TIMEOUT

commit-timeout = "50ms"

The commit timeout is the amount of time a Raft node will tolerate between commands before issuing a heartbeat to tell the leader it is alive. The default setting should work for most systems.

Environment variable: INFLUXDB_META_COMMIT_TIMEOUT

cluster-tracing = false

Cluster tracing toggles the logging of Raft logs on Raft nodes. Enable this setting when debugging Raft consensus issues.

Environment variable: INFLUXDB_META_CLUSTER_TRACING

logging-enabled = true

Meta logging toggles the logging of messages from the meta service.

Environment variable: INFLUXDB_META_LOGGING_ENABLED

pprof-enabled = true

Set to false to disable the /debug/pprof endpoint for troubleshooting.

Environment variable: INFLUXDB_META_PPROF_ENABLED

lease-duration = "1m0s"

The default duration of the leases that data nodes acquire from the meta nodes. Leases automatically expire after the lease-duration is met.

Leases ensure that only one data node is running something at a given time. For example, Continuous Queries (CQ) use a lease so that all data nodes aren’t running the same CQs at once.

Environment variable: INFLUXDB_META_LEASE_DURATION

shared-secret = ""

The shared secret to be used by the public API for creating custom JWT authentication. Set auth-enabled to true if using this option.

Environment variable: INFLUXDB_META_SHARED_SECRET

internal-shared-secret = ""

The shared secret used by the internal API for JWT authentication. Set this to a long pass phrase. This value must be the same as the value of the [meta] meta-internal-shared-secret in the data node configuration file. Set auth-enabled to true if using this option.

Environment variable: INFLUXDB_META_INTERNAL_SHARED_SECRET