Administer InfluxDB 3 Enterprise

Identify InfluxDB 3 Enterprise version

Learn how to identify your InfluxDB 3 Enterprise version using command-line tools, HTTP endpoints, and other methods.

Configure specialized cluster nodes

Learn how to configure specialized nodes in your InfluxDB 3 Enterprise cluster for ingest, query, compaction, and processing workloads with optimal thread allocation.

Manage your InfluxDB 3 Enterprise license

InfluxDB 3 Enterprise licenses authorize the use of the InfluxDB 3 Enterprise software. Learn how licenses work, how to activate and renew licenses, and more.

Manage tables

Tables in InfluxDB 3 Enterprise are synonymous with measurements and contain time series data. Each table has a defined schema with tag and field columns.

Run the Processing Engine in a cluster

Configure, start, and troubleshoot Processing Engine plugins in a multi-node InfluxDB 3 Enterprise cluster: how process nodes follow every ingester’s write-ahead log, how --node-spec selects owning schedulers, how runs place across nodes, and how to recognize common misconfiguration errors.

Manage databases

An InfluxDB 3 Enterprise database is a named location where time series data is stored. Each database can contain multiple tables.

Manage the node lifecycle

Understand how an InfluxDB 3 Enterprise node moves through the running, stopping, stopped, and removing states—how to restart, stop, and permanently remove nodes, and how to keep Helm, Kubernetes, and Ansible deployments on the graceful shutdown path.

Manage tokens

Manage tokens to authenticate and authorize access to server actions, resources, and data in an InfluxDB 3 Enterprise instance.

Manage the Last Value Cache

The InfluxDB 3 Enterprise Last Value Cache (LVC) lets you cache the most recent values for specific fields in a table, improving the performance of queries that return the most recent value of a field for specific time series or the last N values of a field.

Delete data

Delete rows from InfluxDB 3 Enterprise by time range and tag predicate using the influxdb3 delete rows command. Deletes are asynchronous and applied by the compactor.

Manage the Distinct Value Cache

The InfluxDB 3 Enterprise Distinct Value Cache (DVC) lets you cache distinct values of one or more columns in a table, improving the performance of queries that return distinct tag and field values.

Import data

Bulk import your existing Parquet files into a database and table in InfluxDB 3 Enterprise using the influxdb3 import upload or influxdb3 import from-object-store command, and map columns to InfluxDB types. Imported data is stored in your object storage.

Manage file indexes

Customize the indexing strategy of a database or table in InfluxDB 3 Enterprise to optimize the performance of single-series queries.

Distributed compaction

Run compaction jobs across every compact node in a cluster instead of only the node that holds the compactor lease, using influxdb3 serve --compactor-dispatch-target.

Gen1 file cleanup

Delete Gen1 Parquet files that compaction has already merged into later generations in InfluxDB 3 Enterprise clusters that use the legacy Parquet storage engine.

Orphaned file cleanup

Learn how InfluxDB 3 Enterprise finds and deletes compacted files that nothing references, when cleanup passes run, and how to inspect cleanup activity with the influxdb3 debug sweep and influxdb3 debug verify-references commands.

Configure object storage

Configure InfluxDB 3 Enterprise to connect to and use different object storage providers.

Query system data

Query system tables to see data related to the server, queries, and tables in an InfluxDB 3 Enterprise instance. Use the HTTP SQL query API to retrieve information about your database server and table schemas.

Back up and restore data

Back up and restore your InfluxDB 3 Enterprise cluster by copying object storage files in the recommended order for each node type.

Recover a crashed node

Safely recover an InfluxDB 3 Enterprise node that crashed or was stopped without a graceful stop node: restart it with the same node ID, let it drain its write-ahead log (WAL), stop it gracefully, and then remove it.

Performance tuning

Optimize InfluxDB 3 Enterprise performance by tuning thread allocation, memory settings, and other configuration options for your specific workload.

Security

Secure InfluxDB 3 Enterprise: authenticate clients with tokens, enable multi-user authentication and role-based access control (RBAC), and harden the host.

Upgrade from InfluxDB 3 Core

Upgrade from InfluxDB 3 Core to InfluxDB 3 Enterprise. Your existing data and plugins are compatible–no data migration is required.

Upgrade InfluxDB 3 Enterprise

Learn how to upgrade your InfluxDB 3 Enterprise cluster across multiple versions, including rolling upgrades, catalog version constraints, and recommended upgrade order for different node modes.

Use the InfluxDB 3 MCP server

Use the InfluxDB Model Context Protocol (MCP) server to interact with and manage InfluxDB 3 Enterprise using natural language with LLM agents to query and analyze data, manage databases and more. Query InfluxDB 3 Enterprise documentation from your IDE using the InfluxDB documentation Model Context Protocol (MCP) server.

Capture workload data

Use load capture to record an anonymized profile of write and query traffic on an InfluxDB 3 Enterprise query node, inspect it, and share it with InfluxData to troubleshoot performance.

Use the integrated Explorer UI

Enable the Explorer UI embedded in InfluxDB 3 Enterprise: quick start without authentication, sign in with multi-user authentication, configure SSO, and understand sessions and default connections.