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Get started with InfluxDB 3 Enterprise

This guide walks through the basic steps of getting started with InfluxDB 3 Enterprise, including the following:

Find support for InfluxDB 3 Enterprise

The InfluxDB Discord server is the best place to find support for InfluxDB 3 Enterprise. For other InfluxDB versions, see the Support and feedback options.

Data model

The InfluxDB 3 Enterprise server contains logical databases; databases contain tables; and tables are comprised of columns.

Compared to previous versions of InfluxDB, you can think of a database as an InfluxDB v2 bucket in v2 or an InfluxDB v1 db/retention_policy. A table is equivalent to an InfluxDB v1 and v2 measurement.

Columns in a table represent time, tags, and fields. Columns can be one of the following types:

  • String dictionary (tag)
  • int64 (field)
  • float64 (field)
  • uint64 (field)
  • bool (field)
  • string (field)
  • time (time with nanosecond precision)

In InfluxDB 3 Enterprise, every table has a primary key–the ordered set of tags and the time–for its data. The primary key uniquely identifies each and determines the sort order for all Parquet files related to the table. When you create a table, either through an explicit call or by writing data into a table for the first time, it sets the primary key to the tags in the order they arrived. Although InfluxDB is still a schema-on-write database, the tag column definitions for a table are immutable.

Tags should hold unique identifying information like sensor_id, building_id, or trace_id. All other data should be stored as fields.

Tools to use

The following table compares tools that you can use to interact with InfluxDB 3 Enterprise. This tutorial covers many of the recommended tools.

ToolAdministrationWriteQuery
influxdb3 CLI
InfluxDB HTTP API
InfluxDB 3 Explorer
InfluxDB 3 client libraries-
InfluxDB v2 client libraries--
InfluxDB v1 client libraries-
InfluxDB 3 processing engine
Telegraf--
Chronograf---
influx CLI---
influxctl CLI---
InfluxDB v2.x user interface---
Third-party tools
Flight SQL clients--
Grafana--

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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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New in InfluxDB 3.2

Key enhancements in InfluxDB 3.2 and the InfluxDB 3 Explorer UI is now generally available.

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