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 configuration options

Customize your InfluxDB configuration by using influxd configuration flags, setting environment variables, or defining configuration options in a configuration file.

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 OSS URLs

InfluxDB OSS is accessed at localhost:8086 by default, but you can also customize your InfluxDB host and port.

InfluxDB internals

InfluxDB storage engine An overview of the InfluxDB storage engine architecture. InfluxDB file system layout The InfluxDB file system layout depends on the operating system, package manager, or containerization platform used to install InfluxDB. Data retention in InfluxDB The InfluxDB retention service checks for and removes data with timestamps beyond the defined retention period of the bucket the data is stored in. InfluxDB runtime Learn how to collect Go runtime profiling and tracing information to help with InfluxDB performance analysis and debugging.

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.

Prometheus metric parsing formats

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

Frequently asked questions

Find answers to common questions related to InfluxDB OSS.

Glossary

Terms related to InfluxData products and platforms.

Contribute to InfluxDB OSS

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