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Diamond

This page documents an earlier version of InfluxDB OSS. InfluxDB 3 Core is the latest stable version.

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.

Diamond homepage

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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New in InfluxDB 3.6

Key enhancements in InfluxDB 3.6 and the InfluxDB 3 Explorer 1.4.

See the Blog Post

InfluxDB 3.6 is now available for both Core and Enterprise. This release introduces the 1.4 update to InfluxDB 3 Explorer, featuring the beta launch of Ask AI, along with new capabilities for simple startup and expanded functionality in the Processing Engine.

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InfluxDB Docker latest tag changing to InfluxDB 3 Core

On February 3, 2026, the latest tag for InfluxDB Docker images will point to InfluxDB 3 Core. To avoid unexpected upgrades, use specific version tags in your Docker deployments.

If using Docker to install and run InfluxDB, the latest tag will point to InfluxDB 3 Core. To avoid unexpected upgrades, use specific version tags in your Docker deployments. For example, if using Docker to run InfluxDB v2, replace the latest version tag with a specific version tag in your Docker pull command–for example:

docker pull influxdb:2