Use Postman with the InfluxDB API
This page documents an earlier version of InfluxDB. InfluxDB v2.6 is the latest stable version. View this page in the v2.6 documentation.
Use Postman, a popular tool for exploring APIs, to interact with the InfluxDB API.
Install Postman
Download Postman from the official downloads page.
Or to install with Homebrew on macOS, run the following command:
brew install --cask postman
Send authenticated API requests with Postman
All requests to the InfluxDB v2 API must include an InfluxDB API token.
Authenticate with a username and password
If you need to send a username and password (Authorization: Basic) to the InfluxDB 1.x compatibility API, see how to authenticate with a username and password scheme.
To configure Postman to send an InfluxDB API token with the Authorization: Token HTTP header, do the following:
- If you have not already, create a token.
- In the Postman Authorization tab, select API Key in the Type dropdown.
- For Key, enter
Authorization. - For Value, enter
Token INFLUX_API_TOKEN, replacingINFLUX_API_TOKENwith the token generated in step 1. - Ensure that the Add to option is set to Header.
Test authentication credentials
To test the authentication, in Postman, enter your InfluxDB API /api/v2/ root endpoint URL and click Send.
InfluxDB v2 API root endpoint
http://localhost:8086/api/v2
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