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title: InfluxDB Enterprise v1 documentation
description: Documentation for InfluxDB Enterprise v1, which adds clustering, high availability, fine-grained authorization, and more to InfluxDB OSS.
url: https://docs.influxdata.com/enterprise_influxdb/v1/
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publisher: InfluxData
canonical: https://docs.influxdata.com/enterprise_influxdb/v1/
date: '2026-02-27T09:46:57-06:00'
lastmod: '2026-02-27T09:46:57-06:00'
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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.

#### InfluxDB Cloud 1 users

**InfluxDB Cloud 1** (InfluxCloud 1.x) is based on InfluxDB
Enterprise v1. This is the correct documentation.

* **InfluxDB Cloud 1 Support**:[help.influxcloud.net](https://help.influxcloud.net)
* **Migrate**: Consider[migrating to InfluxDB 3](/platform/#migration-to-influxdb-3)(Enterprise, Cloud Serverless, or Cloud Dedicated) with v1 API
  compatibility

## 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.

## Next steps

* [Install and deploy](/enterprise_influxdb/v1/introduction/installation/)
* Review key [concepts](/enterprise_influxdb/v1/concepts/)
* [Get started](/enterprise_influxdb/v1/introduction/getting-started/)