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InfluxDB OSS v1

Diamond

This page documents an earlier version of InfluxDB OSS. InfluxDB OSS v2 is the latest stable version. See the InfluxDB v2 documentation.

Saving Diamond Metrics into InfluxDB

Diamond is a metrics collection and delivery daemon written in Python. It is capable of collecting cpu, memory, network, i/o, load and disk metrics. Additionally, it features an API for implementing custom collectors for gathering metrics from almost any source.

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Diamond started supporting InfluxDB at version 3.5.

Configuring Diamond to send metrics to InfluxDB

Prerequisites: Diamond depends on the influxdb python client. InfluxDB-version-specific installation instructions for the influxdb python client can be found on their github page.

Diamond InfluxdbHandler configuration page

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