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InfluxDB OSS v1

Flux data scripting language

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

Flux is a functional data scripting language designed for querying, analyzing, and acting on time series data. It takes the power of InfluxQL and the functionality of TICKscript and combines them into a single, unified syntax.

Flux is production-ready and included with InfluxDB v1.8+.

Flux design principles

Flux is designed to be usable, readable, flexible, composable, testable, contributable, and shareable. Its syntax is largely inspired by 2018’s most popular scripting language, JavaScript, and takes a functional approach to data exploration and processing.

The following example illustrates pulling data from a bucket (similar to an InfluxQL database) for the last five minutes, filtering that data by the cpu measurement and the cpu=cpu-total tag, windowing the data in 1 minute intervals, and calculating the average of each window:

from(bucket:"telegraf/autogen")
  |> range(start:-1h)
  |> filter(fn:(r) =>
    r._measurement == "cpu" and
    r.cpu == "cpu-total"
  )
  |> aggregateWindow(every: 1m, fn: mean)

Query data with Flux

Guides that walk through both common and complex queries and use cases for Flux.

Enable Flux

Instructions for enabling Flux in your InfluxDB configuration.

Flux vs InfluxQL

Flux is an alternative to InfluxQL and other SQL-like query languages for querying and analyzing data. Flux uses functional language patterns making it incredibly powerful, flexible, and able to overcome many of the limitations of InfluxQL. This article outlines many of the tasks possible with Flux but not InfluxQL and provides information about Flux and InfluxQL parity.

Possible with Flux

Joins

InfluxQL has never supported joins. They can be accomplished using TICKscript, but even TICKscript’s join capabilities are limited. Flux’s join() function allows you to join data from any bucket, any measurement, and on any columns as long as each data set includes the columns on which they are to be joined. This opens the door for really powerful and useful operations.

Get started with Flux

Get started with Flux, InfluxData’s new functional data scripting language. This step-by-step guide will walk you through the basics and get you on your way.

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Key enhancements in InfluxDB 3.5 and the InfluxDB 3 Explorer 1.3.

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InfluxDB Docker latest tag changing to InfluxDB 3 Core

On November 3, 2025, 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:

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