Install InfluxDB 3 Enterprise

• System Requirements
• Install
  • Quick install for Linux and macOS
  • Download and install the latest build artifacts
  • Pull the Docker image
  • Linux DEB or RPM
    • TOML configuration (Linux)
    • Run as a system service (Linux)
  • Verify the installation

System Requirements

Operating system

InfluxDB 3 Enterprise 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 Enterprise 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.

Install

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

Choose one of the following methods to install InfluxDB 3 Enterprise:

• Quick install for Linux and macOS
• Download and install the latest build artifacts
• Pull the Docker image
• Linux DEB or RPM

Quick install for Linux and macOS

To install InfluxDB 3 Enterprise on Linux or macOS, download and run the quick installer script for InfluxDB 3 Enterprise–for example, using curl to download the script:

curl -O https://www.influxdata.com/d/install_influxdb3.sh \
&& sh install_influxdb3.sh enterprise

Download and install the latest build artifacts

You can also download and install InfluxDB 3 Enterprise build artifacts directly:

Pull the Docker image

Run the following command to pull the influxdb:3-enterprise image, available for x86_64 (AMD64) and ARM64 architectures:

docker pull influxdb:3-enterprise

Docker automatically pulls the appropriate image for your system architecture.

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

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

Linux DEB or RPM

When installed via DEB or RPM on a systemd-enabled system, InfluxDB 3 Enterprise runs in a sandboxed environment. The included systemd unit file configures the environment to provide security isolation for typical deployments. For more information, see Manage security.

curl --silent --location -O https://repos.influxdata.com/influxdata-archive.key
gpg --show-keys --with-fingerprint --with-colons ./influxdata-archive.key 2>&1 \
| grep -q '^fpr:\+24C975CBA61A024EE1B631787C3D57159FC2F927:$' \
&& cat influxdata-archive.key \
| gpg --dearmor \
| sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/influxdata-archive.gpg > /dev/null \
&& echo 'deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/influxdata-archive.gpg] https://repos.influxdata.com/debian stable main' \
| sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/influxdata.list
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install influxdb3-enterprise

curl --silent --location -O https://repos.influxdata.com/influxdata-archive.key
test -d /usr/share/influxdata-archive-keyring/keyrings || sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/influxdata-archive-keyring/keyrings
gpg --show-keys --with-fingerprint --with-colons ./influxdata-archive.key 2>&1 \
| grep -q '^fpr:\+24C975CBA61A024EE1B631787C3D57159FC2F927:$' \
&& sudo cp ./influxdata-archive.key /usr/share/influxdata-archive-keyring/keyrings/influxdata-archive.asc \
&& cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/influxdata.repo
[influxdata]
name = InfluxData Repository - Stable
baseurl = https://repos.influxdata.com/stable/\$basearch/main
enabled = 1
gpgcheck = 1
gpgkey = file:///usr/share/influxdata-archive-keyring/keyrings/influxdata-archive.asc
EOF
sudo yum install influxdb3-enterprise

TOML configuration (Linux)

After you install the DEB or RPM package, the InfluxDB 3 Enterprise TOML configuration file is located at /etc/influxdb3/influxdb3-enterprise.conf and contains the following settings:

• object-store: file

• data-dir: /var/lib/influxdb3/data

• plugin-dir: /var/lib/influxdb3/plugins

• node-id: primary-node

• cluster-id: primary-cluster

• mode: all

Run as a system service (Linux)

InfluxDB 3 Enterprise DEB and RPM installs include service files for running as a managed system service on Linux:

• systemd: For modern Linux distributions
• SysV init: For legacy system compatibility

Run using systemd

On systemd systems, the influxdb3-enterprise unit file is enabled on install, but the unit is not started in order to allow configuration.

Start, stop, and restart

# Start the service
sudo systemctl start influxdb3-enterprise

# Stop the service
sudo systemctl stop influxdb3-enterprise

# Restart the service (use after configuration changes)
sudo systemctl restart influxdb3-enterprise

Check status and logs

# Check status (sudo to ensure full journal output)
sudo systemctl status influxdb3-enterprise

# Quick state checks (no sudo needed)
systemctl is-enabled influxdb3-enterprise
systemctl is-active  influxdb3-enterprise

# Recent logs
sudo journalctl --unit influxdb3-enterprise -n 200 --no-pager

# Follow logs
sudo journalctl --unit influxdb3-enterprise -f

Inspect the packaged unit

The packaged unit configures security sandboxing for typical deployments (see Manage security). To inspect the packaged unit and its resolved properties:

# Show the unit file
systemctl cat influxdb3-enterprise

# Show all resolved properties (paths, environment, sandboxing options)
systemctl show influxdb3-enterprise

Apply configuration changes

Edit the TOML configuration file and restart the service to apply changes:

sudoedit /etc/influxdb3/influxdb3-enterprise.conf
sudo systemctl restart influxdb3-enterprise
sudo systemctl status  influxdb3-enterprise
sudo journalctl --unit influxdb3-enterprise -n 100 --no-pager

influxdb3 serve does not support configuration reload; a restart is required after editing the TOML file or changing environment variables.

The TOML file is read by the systemd launcher and converted to INFLUXDB3_* environment variables before influxdb3 serve runs; CLI flags still override values from the TOML file. For details, see TOML configuration files.

Run using SysV

On SysV init systems, influxdb3-enterprise is disabled on install and can be enabled by adjusting /etc/default/influxdb3-enterprise to contain ENABLED=yes.

To start the database, enter the following commands:

# Start the database
/etc/init.d/influxdb3-enterprise start

# View status
/etc/init.d/influxdb3-enterprise status

# View logs
tail -f /var/lib/influxdb3/influxdb3-enterprise.log

Verify the installation

After installing InfluxDB 3 Enterprise, enter the following command to verify that it installed successfully:

influxdb3 --version

If your system can’t locate influxdb3 following a quick install, source the configuration file (for example, .bashrc, .zshrc) for your shell–for example:

source ~/.zshrc