Data API

Quick start

Authenticate, write, and query with the InfluxDB 3 Cloud Dedicated API.

API compatibility

Authentication

Use one of the following schemes to authenticate to the InfluxDB 3 Cloud Dedicated API:

Common parameters

Most InfluxDB API endpoints require parameters in the request — for example, specifying the database to write to or query from.

Headers

InfluxDB HTTP API endpoints use standard HTTP request and response headers. The following table shows common headers used by many InfluxDB 3 Cloud Dedicated API endpoints. Some endpoints use…

Response codes

InfluxDB 3 Cloud Dedicated API endpoints return standard HTTP status codes.

System information endpoints

InfluxDB 3 Cloud Dedicated provides system endpoints for checking instance availability and retrieving version information.

Usage

InfluxDB 3 Cloud Dedicated tracks storage usage for your cluster. The Usage endpoints let you retrieve stored data size metrics to monitor capacity consumption. Usage data is available at the cluster…

Ping

Check the availability of the InfluxDB 3 Cloud Dedicated instance.

Query data

Query data stored in InfluxDB 3 Cloud Dedicated using InfluxQL via the v1-compatible /query endpoint. Use Flight+gRPC for SQL or InfluxQL queries with Arrow format output.

Write data

Write time series data to InfluxDB 3 Cloud Dedicated databases using the v2-compatible /api/v2/write endpoint or the v1-compatible /write endpoint with line protocol.