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Install InfluxDB 3 Core

InfluxDB 3 Core is in Public Alpha

InfluxDB 3 Core is in public alpha and available for testing and feedback, but is not meant for production use. Both the product and this documentation are works in progress. We welcome and encourage your input about your experience with the alpha and invite you to join our public channels for updates and to share feedback.

Alpha expectations and recommendations

System Requirements

Operating system

InfluxDB 3 Core runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Object storage

A key feature of InfluxDB 3 is its use of object storage to store time series data in Apache Parquet format. You can choose to store these files on your local file system. Performance on your local filesystem will likely be better, but object storage has the advantage of not running out of space and being accessible by other systems over the network. InfluxDB 3 Core natively supports Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, and Google Cloud Storage. You can also use many local object storage implementations that provide an S3-compatible API, such as Minio.

Quick install

Use the InfluxDB 3 quick install script to install InfluxDB 3 Core on Linux and macOS.

  1. Use the following command to download and install the appropriate InfluxDB 3 Core package on your local machine:

    curl -O https://www.influxdata.com/d/install_influxdb3.sh \
    && sh install_influxdb3.sh
    
  2. Verify that installation completed successfully:

    influxdb3 --version
    

influxdb3 not found

If your system can’t locate your influxdb3 binary, source your current shell configuration file (.bashrc, .zshrc, etc.).

source ~/.bashrc
source ~/.zshrc

Download InfluxDB 3 Core binaries

Docker image

Use the influxdb3-core Docker image to deploy InfluxDB 3 Core in a Docker container. The image is available for x86_64 (AMD64) and ARM64 architectures.

docker pull quay.io/influxdb/influxdb3-core:latest

Docker automatically pulls the appropriate image for your system architecture.

You can also explicitly specify the architecture by using platform-specific tags:

# For x86_64/AMD64
docker pull \
--platform linux/amd64 \
quay.io/influxdb/influxdb3-core:latest
# For ARM64
docker pull \
--platform linux/arm64 \
quay.io/influxdb/influxdb3-core:latest

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The future of Flux

Flux is going into maintenance mode. You can continue using it as you currently are without any changes to your code.

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InfluxDB 3 Open Source Now in Public Alpha

InfluxDB 3 Open Source is now available for alpha testing, licensed under MIT or Apache 2 licensing.

We are releasing two products as part of the alpha.

InfluxDB 3 Core, is our new open source product. It is a recent-data engine for time series and event data. InfluxDB 3 Enterprise is a commercial version that builds on Core’s foundation, adding historical query capability, read replicas, high availability, scalability, and fine-grained security.

For more information on how to get started, check out: