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influx ping

Works with InfluxDB OSS 2.x

The influx ping command works with InfluxDB OSS 2.x, but does not work with InfluxDB Cloud.

The influx ping command checks the health of a running InfluxDB instance by querying the /health endpoint. It does not require an API token.

Usage

influx ping [flags]
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Flags

FlagDescriptionInput typeMaps to ?
-c--active-configCLI configuration to use for commandstring
--configs-pathPath to influx CLI configurations (default ~/.influxdbv2/configs)stringINFLUX_CONFIGS_PATH
-h--helpHelp for the ping command
--hostHTTP address of InfluxDB (default http://localhost:8086)stringINFLUX_HOST
--http-debugInspect communication with InfluxDB servers.string
--skip-verifySkip TLS certificate verificationINFLUX_SKIP_VERIFY

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