Install InfluxDB 3 Core

• System Requirements
• Quick install
• Download InfluxDB 3 Core binaries
• Docker image

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
   

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2. Verify that installation completed successfully:

   influxdb3 --version
   

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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.

Use Docker CLI

docker pull influxdb:3-core

Docker automatically pulls the appropriate image for your system architecture.

To specify the system architecture, use platform-specific tags–for example:

# For x86_64/AMD64
docker pull \
--platform linux/amd64 \
influxdb:3-core

# For ARM64
docker pull \
--platform linux/arm64 \
influxdb:3-core

Use Docker Compose

1. Open compose.yaml for editing and add a services entry for InfluxDB 3 Core–for example:

   # compose.yaml
   services:
     influxdb3-core:
       container_name: influxdb3-core
       image: influxdb:3-core
       ports:
         - 9999:9999
       command:
         - influxdb3
         - serve
         - --node-id=node0
         - --object-store=file
         - --data-dir=/var/lib/influxdb3
   

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2. Use the Docker Compose CLI to start the server.

   Optional: to make sure you have the latest version of the image before you start the server, run docker compose pull.

   docker compose pull && docker compose run influxdb3-core
   

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ps -ef | grep influxdb3
kill -9 <PROCESS_ID>