Create an organization
API token hashing is enabled by default in InfluxDB OSS 2.9.0
Stronger token security: tokens are stored as hashes on disk, so a copy of the database file doesn’t expose usable tokens. Existing tokens are hashed on first startup and the original strings can’t be recovered afterward — capture any plaintext tokens you still need before you upgrade.
For more information, see Token hashing.
Use the InfluxDB user interface (UI) or the influx command line interface (CLI)
to create an organization.
Organization and bucket limits
A single InfluxDB 2.9 OSS instance supports approximately 20 buckets actively being written to or queried across all organizations depending on the use case. Any more than that can adversely affect performance. Because each organization is created with a bucket, we do not recommend more than 20 organizations in a single InfluxDB OSS instance.
Create an organization in the InfluxDB UI
In the navigation menu on the left, click the Account dropdown.
Select Create Organization.
In the window that appears, enter an Organization Name and Bucket Name and click Create.
Create an organization using the influx CLI
Use the influx org create command
to create a new organization. Provide the following:
- An operator token using your
influxCLI connection configuration,INFLUX_TOKENenvironment variable, or the--token, -tflag. - A name for the organization with the
--name, -nflag. - Optional: A description of the organization with the
--description, -dflag.
influx org create \
--name ORG_NAME \
--description "ORG_DESCRIPTION"Replace the following:
ORG_NAME: The name of the organization to createORG_DESCRIPTION: A description of the organization
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