Tools

This section covers the available tools for interacting with InfluxDB.

CLI/Shell

InfluxDB’s Command Line Interface (influx) is an interactive shell for the HTTP API that comes with every InfluxDB package. Use influx to write data (manually or from a file), query data interactively, and view query output in different formats:

Go straight to the documentation on:

• Launching influx
• Writing data with influx

API Reference

Reference documentation for InfluxDB’s HTTP API.

Go straight to the reference documentation on:

• Writing data with the HTTP API
• Querying data with the HTTP API

For friendlier documentation, see the guides on writing data and querying data with the HTTP API.

API Client Libraries

The list of client libraries for interacting with InfluxDB.

Web Admin Interface

In version 1.3, the web admin interface is no longer available in InfluxDB. The interface does not run on port 8083 and InfluxDB ignores the [admin] section in the configuration file if that section is present. Chronograf replaces the web admin interface with improved tooling for querying data, writing data, and database management. See Chronograf’s transition guide for more information.

Influx Inspect

Influx Inspect is a tool designed to view detailed information about on disk shards, as well as export data from a shard to line protocol that can be inserted back into the database.

Grafana Graphs and Dashboards

Grafana is a convenient dashboard tool for visualizing time series data. It was originally built for Graphite, modeled after Kibana, and since been updated to support InfluxDB.

Because of the changes to the SHOW SERIES and SHOW TAG VALUES formats in InfluxDB 0.11, InfluxDB 1.3 will not work with the Query Editor in Grafana 2.6. This issue does not affect existing queries and dashboards or users working with Grafana 3.0.

Service Plugins

InfluxDB accepts writes over UDP and provides an easy way to set up Graphite, CollectD, and OpenTSDB as input sources.