Migrate to an account in a new region

The following guide provides instructions on migrating data and resources from an existing InfluxDB Cloud account to a new InfluxDB account in another InfluxDB Cloud region.

Create a new account in a new region

InfluxDB organizations are bound to a specific cloud provider and region. Create a new InfluxDB Cloud account in the region you want to migrate to.

Migrate Data

If you want to migrate data from your current InfluxDB Cloud account to your new destination InfluxDB Cloud account, there is documentation available that walks through the migration. The specific process varies depending on whether your destination account is powered by our current database engine, Time-Structured Merge Tree (TSM) or our new database engine, InfluxDB IOx.

To benefit from IOx’s unlimited cardinality and support for SQL, migrate your data to IOx.

• Migrate data TSM to IOx
• Migrate data from TSM to TSM.

To see which storage engine your organization is using, find the InfluxDB Cloud powered by link in your InfluxDB Cloud organization homepage version information. If your organization is using TSM, you’ll see TSM followed by the version number. If IOx, you’ll see InfluxDB Cloud Serverless followed by the version number.

Migrate Resources

Resources include, but are not limited to the following:

• buckets
• dashboards
• notification rules
• tasks
• labels
• variables

If you have resources that you want to migrate to your destination account (rather than recreating these resources in the destination account) you can do the following:

1. Download and install the 2.x influx CLI.

2. Set up InfluxDB connection configurations for both your source and destination InfluxDB Cloud accounts. Use the influx config create command and provide the following for each connection:

   • Connection configuration name
   • InfluxDB Cloud region URL
   • InfluxDB organization name
   • InfluxDB API token

   # Create your source connection configuration and set it to active
   $ influx config create \
     --config-name source \
     --host-url https://cloud2.influxdata.com \
     --org <your-source-org> \
     --token <your-source-auth-token> \
     --active
   
   # Create your destination connection configuration
   $ influx config create \
     --config-name destination \
     --host-url https://cloud2.influxdata.com \
     --org <your-destination-org> \
     --token <your-destination-auth-token>
   

3. Use the influx export all command to export all resources from your source account to an InfluxDB template.

   influx export all
   

4. Use the influx config command to switch to your destination connection configuration. Provide the name of the configuration to switch to:

   influx config destination
   

5. Use influx template apply command to apply the exported InfluxDB template created in the previous step to your destination account:

   influx apply --file path/to/template.json