InfluxDB Enterprise tools

Use the Flux VS Code extension

The Flux Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension provides Flux syntax highlighting, autocompletion, and a direct InfluxDB OSS server integration that lets you run Flux scripts natively and show results in VS Code.

influx - InfluxDB command line interface

The influx command line interface (CLI) includes commands to manage many aspects of InfluxDB, including databases, organizations, users, and tasks.

Usage

influx [flags]

Flags

Flag	Description
-version	Display the version and exit
-url-prefix	Path to add to the URL after the host and port. Specifies a custom endpoint to connect to.
-host	HTTP address of InfluxDB (default: http://localhost:8086)
-port	Port to connect to
-socket	Unix socket to connect to
-database	Database to connect to the server
-password	Password to connect to the server. Leaving blank will prompt for password (--password '').
-username	Username to connect to the server
-ssl	Use https for requests
-unsafessl	Set this when connecting to the cluster using https
-execute	Execute command and quit
-format	Specify the format of the server responses: json, csv, or column
-precision	Specify the format of the timestamp: rfc3339, h, m, s, ms, u or ns
-consistency	Set write consistency level: any, one, quorum, or all
-pretty	Turns on pretty print for JSON format
-import	Import a previous database export from file
-pps	Points per second the import will allow. The default is 0 and will not throttle importing.
-path	Path to file to import
-compressed	Set to true if the import file is compressed

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Influx Inspect disk utility

Use the influx_inspect commands to manage InfluxDB disks and shards.

influxd - InfluxDB daemon

The influxd daemon starts and runs all the processes necessary for InfluxDB to function.

influxd-ctl CLI

Use the influxd-ctl CLI to manage your InfluxDB Enterprise cluster.

InfluxDB API reference

Use the InfluxDB API endpoints to run queries, write data, check server status, and troubleshoot by tracking HTTP client requests, collecting server statistics, and using Go “pprof” profiles.

InfluxDB client libraries

InfluxDB client libraries includes support for Arduino, C#, C++, Go, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and Ruby.

InfluxDB inch tool

Use the InfluxDB inch tool to test InfluxDB performance. Adjust the number of points and tag values to test ingesting different tag cardinalities.

Use Grafana with InfluxDB Enterprise

Configure Grafana to query and visualize data from InfluxDB Enterprise v1.8.