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What is InfluxDB?

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InfluxDB is the time series database platform designed to collect, store, and process large amounts of event and time series data. Ideal for monitoring (sensors, servers, applications, networks), financial analytics, and behavioral tracking.

Quick Start

Use InfluxDB 3 Core, the latest InfluxDB OSS:

docker run -d -p 8181:8181 %%IMAGE%%:3-core

Available OSS tags:

%%IMAGE%%:3-core - Latest InfluxDB OSS (InfluxDB 3 Core)
%%IMAGE%%:2 - Previous generation OSS (InfluxDB v2)
%%IMAGE%%:1.11 - InfluxDB v1

Available Versions

InfluxDB 3 Core (`%%IMAGE%%:3-core`) - Latest OSS

Latest generation with the InfluxDB 3 storage engine, Apache Arrow, and DataFusion SQL
Sub-10ms queries and unlimited cardinality
Supports SQL and InfluxQL queries
Includes Python processing engine
Designed for real-time monitoring and recent data
Includes v1 compatibility API for writing and querying data
Includes v2 compatibility API for writing data

InfluxDB v2 (`%%IMAGE%%:2`)

Built on the TSM storage engine
Supports Flux query language
Integrated UI and dashboards
Includes v1 compatibility API that supports InfluxQL

InfluxDB v1 (`%%IMAGE%%:1.11`)

Built on the TSM storage engine
Original version with InfluxQL query language
Proven stability for existing deployments

Enterprise Editions (License Required)

InfluxDB 3 Enterprise (`%%IMAGE%%:3-enterprise`)

Adds unlimited data retention, compaction, clustering, and high availability to InfluxDB 3 Core

For setup instructions, see the InfluxDB 3 Enterprise installation documentation.

InfluxDB v1 Enterprise

%%IMAGE%%:1.11-data - Data nodes for clustering
%%IMAGE%%:1.11-meta - Meta nodes for cluster coordination (port 8091)

For setup instructions, see the InfluxDB v1 Enterprise Docker documentation.

Version Compatibility

Migration Paths

To migrate from v1 or v2 to InfluxDB 3:

Dual-write new data to v1/v2 and InfluxDB 3.
Query historical data from v1/v2 and write it to InfluxDB 3. InfluxDB 3 Enterprise is recommended for historical query capability.

Using InfluxDB 3 Core (Latest OSS)

Start InfluxDB 3 Core

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The example compose.yaml starts InfluxDB 3 Core on port 8181 with:

Data persistence at /var/lib/influxdb3
Plugin directory for Python processing engine
Object storage configured (default: file)

Get Started Using InfluxDB 3

After starting your InfluxDB 3 server:

Follow the Get started guide to create an auth token and database, and write, query, and process data.
Use the InfluxDB 3 Explorer UI to write data, create dashboards, explore metrics, and manage databases

InfluxDB 3 Server Options

Customize your deployment with available server options:

# View all available options
docker run --rm %%IMAGE%%:3-core influxdb3 serve --help

Using InfluxDB v2

InfluxDB v2 is a previous version. Consider InfluxDB 3 Core for new deployments.

Start InfluxDB v2

docker run -d -p 8086:8086 \
  -v $PWD/data:/var/lib/influxdb2 \
  -v $PWD/config:/etc/influxdb2 \
  -e DOCKER_INFLUXDB_INIT_MODE=setup \
  -e DOCKER_INFLUXDB_INIT_USERNAME=my-user \
  -e DOCKER_INFLUXDB_INIT_PASSWORD=my-password \
  -e DOCKER_INFLUXDB_INIT_ORG=my-org \
  -e DOCKER_INFLUXDB_INIT_BUCKET=my-bucket \
  %%IMAGE%%:2

After the container starts, visit http://localhost:8086 to view the UI.

For detailed instructions, see the InfluxDB v2 Docker Compose documentation.

Using InfluxDB v1

InfluxDB v1 is a previous version. Consider InfluxDB 3 Core for new deployments.

docker run -d -p 8086:8086 \
  -v $PWD:/var/lib/influxdb \
  %%IMAGE%%:1.11

This starts InfluxDB v1 with:

HTTP API on port 8086
Data persisted to current directory

For more information, see the InfluxDB v1 Docker documentation.

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