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InfluxDB inch tool

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

Use the InfluxDB inch tool to simulate streaming data to InfluxDB and measure your performance (for example, the impact of cardinality on write throughput). To do this, complete the following tasks:

Install InfluxDB inch

  1. To install inch, run the following command in your terminal:

    $ go install github.com/influxdata/inch/cmd/inch
    
  2. Verify inch is successfully installed in your GOPATH/bin (default on Unix $HOME/go/bin).

Use InfluxDB inch

  1. Log into the InfluxDB instance you want to test (for InfluxDB Enterprise, log into the data node(s) to test).

  2. Run inch, specifying options (metrics) to test (see Options table below). For example, your syntax may look like this:

    inch -v -c 8 -b 10000 -t 2,5000,1 -p 100000 -consistency any
    

    This example starts generating a workload with:

    • 8 concurrent (-c) write streams
    • 10000 points per batch (-b)
    • tag cardinality (-t) of 10000 unique series (2x5000x1)
    • 10000 points (-p) per series
    • any write -consistency

    Note: By default, inch writes generated test results to a database named stress. To change the name of the inch database, include the -db string option, for example, inch -db test.

  3. To view the last 50 inch results, run the following query against the inch database:

     > select * from stress limit 50
    

Options

inch options listed in alphabetical order.

OptionDescriptionExample
-b intbatch size (default 5000; recommend between 5000-10000 points)-b 10000
-c intnumber of streams writing concurrently (default 1)-c 8
-consistency stringwrite consistency (default “any”); values supported by the Influxdb API include “all”, “quorum”, or “one”.-consistency any
-db stringname of the database to write to (default “stress”)-db stress
-delay durationdelay between writes (in seconds s, minutes m, or hours h)-delay 1s
-drydry run (maximum write performance perf possible on the specified database)-dry
-f inttotal unique field key-value pairs per point (default 1)-f 1
-host stringhost (default http://localhost:8086")-host http://localhost:8086
-m intthe number of measurements (default 1)-m 1
-max-errors intthe number of InfluxDB errors that can occur before terminating the inch command-max-errors 5
-p intpoints per series (default 100)-p 100
-report-host stringhost to send metrics toreport-host http://localhost:8086
-report-tags stringcomma-separated k=v (key-value?) tags to report alongside metrics-report-tags cpu=cpu1
-shard-duration stringshard duration (default 7d)-shard-duration 7d
-t [string]**comma-separated integers that represent tags.-t [100,20,4]
-target-latency durationif specified, attempt to adapt write delay to meet target.
-time durationtime span to spread writes over.-time 1h
-vverbose; prints out details as you’re running the test.-v

** -t [string] each integer represents a tag key and the number of tag values to generate for the key (default [10,10,10]). Multiply each integer to calculate the tag cardinality. For example, -t [100,20,4] has a tag cardinality of 8000 unique series.


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