Manage buckets
This page documents an earlier version of InfluxDB OSS. InfluxDB 3 Core is the latest stable version.
API token hashing is enabled by default in InfluxDB OSS 2.9.0
Stronger token security: tokens are stored as hashes on disk, so a copy of the database file doesn’t expose usable tokens. Existing tokens are hashed on first startup and the original strings can’t be recovered afterward — capture any plaintext tokens you still need before you upgrade.
For more information, see Token hashing.
A bucket is a named location where time series data is stored. All buckets have a retention period, a duration of time that each data point persists. InfluxDB drops all points with timestamps older than the bucket’s retention period. A bucket belongs to an organization.
The following articles provide information about managing buckets:
Create a bucket
Create buckets to store time series data in InfluxDB using the InfluxDB UI, influx CLI, or InfluxDB API.
Update a bucket
Update a bucket’s name or retention period in InfluxDB using the InfluxDB UI or the influx CLI.
View buckets
View a list of all the buckets for an organization in InfluxDB using the InfluxDB UI or the influx CLI.
Delete a bucket
Delete a bucket from InfluxDB using the InfluxDB UI or the influx CLI
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