InfluxDB Enterprise startup process
On startup, InfluxDB Enterprise starts all subsystems and services in the following order:
- TSDBStore
- Monitor
- Cluster
- Precreator
- Snapshotter
- Continuous Query
- Announcer
- Retention
- Stats
- Anti-entropy
- HTTP API
A subsystem is a collection of related services managed together as part of a greater whole. A service is a process that provides specific functionality.
Subsystems and services
TSDBStore
The TSDBStore subsystem starts and manages the TSM storage engine.
This includes services such as the points writer (write), reads (query),
and hinted handoff (HH).
TSDBSTore first opens all the shards and loads write-ahead log (WAL) data into the in-memory write cache.
If influxd was cleanly shutdown previously, there will not be any WAL data.
It then loads a portion of each shard’s index.
Index versions and startup times
If using inmem indexing, InfluxDB loads all shard indexes into memory, which,
depending on the number of series in the database, can take time.
If using tsi1 indexing, InfluxDB only loads hot shard indexes
(the most recent shards or shards currently being written to) into memory and
stores cold shard indexes on disk.
Use tsi1 indexing to see shorter startup times.
Monitor
The Monitor service provides statistical and diagnostic information to InfluxDB about InfluxDB itself. This information helps with database troubleshooting and performance analysis.
Cluster
The Cluster service provides implementations of InfluxDB OSS v1.8 interfaces that operate on an InfluxDB Enterprise v1.8 cluster.
Precreator
The Precreator service creates shards before they are needed. This ensures necessary shards exist before new time series data arrives and that write-throughput is not affected the creation of a new shard.
Snapshotter
The Snapshotter service routinely creates snapshots of InfluxDB Enterprise metadata.
Continuous Query
The Continuous Query (CQ) subsystem manages all InfluxDB CQs.
Announcer
The Announcer service announces a data node’s status to meta nodes.
Retention
The Retention service enforces retention policies and drops data as it expires.
Stats
The Stats service monitors cluster-level statistics.
Anti-entropy
The Anti-entropy (AE) subsystem is responsible for reconciling differences between shards. For more information, see Use anti-entropy.
HTTP API
The InfluxDB HTTP API service provides a public facing interface to interact with InfluxDB Enterprise and internal interfaces used within the InfluxDB Enterprise cluster.
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