InfluxDB reference

Release notes

Find important information about what’s included in new versions of InfluxData products.

InfluxDB key concepts

Concepts related to InfluxDB.

InfluxDB v2 API

The InfluxDB v2 API provides a programmatic interface for interactions with InfluxDB. Access the InfluxDB API using the /api/v2/ endpoint.

Command line tools

InfluxDB provides command line tools designed to aid in managing and working with InfluxDB from the command line.

InfluxDB syntaxes

InfluxDB uses a handful of languages and syntaxes to perform tasks such as writing, querying, processing, and deleting data.

InfluxDB Cloud regions

InfluxDB Cloud is available on multiple cloud providers and in multiple regions. Each region has a unique InfluxDB Cloud URL and API endpoint.

InfluxDB Cloud internals

InfluxDB Cloud data durability InfluxDB Cloud ensures the durability of all stored data by replicating data across multiple availability zones in a cloud region, automatically creating backups, and verifying that replicated data is consistent and readable. InfluxDB Cloud security InfluxDB Cloud is built on industry-standard security practices and principles. InfluxDB Cloud system buckets InfluxDB system buckets contain time series data used by and generated from the InfluxDB monitoring and alerting system and the task engine.

Sample data

Use sample data to familiarize yourself with time series data and InfluxDB. InfluxData provides many sample time series datasets to use with InfluxDB and InfluxDB Cloud.

Glossary

Terms related to InfluxData products and platforms.

Prometheus metric parsing formats

When scraping Prometheus-formatted metrics and writing them to InfluxDB Cloud, metrics are parsed and stored in InfluxDB in different formats.