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Monitor the InfluxData Platform

Monitoring your stack’s health is essential for identifying and addressing issues before they impact operations. The InfluxData Platform is built to collect, process, transform, and store event and time series data, making it well-suited for server and infrastructure monitoring.

Monitor with InfluxDB 3

InfluxDB 3 delivers high-performance time series data management at scale with SQL and InfluxQL querying and built-in data processing capabilities.

Monitor with other InfluxDB versions

InfluxDB 2.x

See Monitor InfluxDB 2.0 for monitoring strategies specific to InfluxDB 2.x.

InfluxDB Enterprise v1

See Monitor InfluxDB Enterprise for Enterprise v1 monitoring documentation.

InfluxDB v1.x (TICK stack)

The following pages provide monitoring strategies, visualizations, and alerting approaches using the TICK stack:


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New in InfluxDB 3.5

Key enhancements in InfluxDB 3.5 and the InfluxDB 3 Explorer 1.3.

See the Blog Post

InfluxDB 3.5 is now available for both Core and Enterprise, introducing custom plugin repository support, enhanced operational visibility with queryable CLI parameters and manual node management, stronger security controls, and general performance improvements.

InfluxDB 3 Explorer 1.3 brings powerful new capabilities including Dashboards (beta) for saving and organizing your favorite queries, and cache querying for instant access to Last Value and Distinct Value caches—making Explorer a more comprehensive workspace for time series monitoring and analysis.

For more information, check out:

InfluxDB Docker latest tag changing to InfluxDB 3 Core

On February 3, 2026, the latest tag for InfluxDB Docker images will point to InfluxDB 3 Core. To avoid unexpected upgrades, use specific version tags in your Docker deployments.

If using Docker to install and run InfluxDB, the latest tag will point to InfluxDB 3 Core. To avoid unexpected upgrades, use specific version tags in your Docker deployments. For example, if using Docker to run InfluxDB v2, replace the latest version tag with a specific version tag in your Docker pull command–for example:

docker pull influxdb:2