# InfluxDB

InfluxDB is a time series database built from the ground up to handle high write and query loads. InfluxDB is meant to be used as a backing store for any use case involving large amounts of timestamped data, including DevOps monitoring, application metrics, IoT sensor data, and real-time analytics.

[InfluxDB Documentation](https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/latest/)

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## Using this Image

### Running the container

The InfluxDB image exposes a shared volume under `/var/lib/influxdb`, so you can mount a host directory to that point to access persisted container data. A typical invocation of the container might be:

```console
docker run -p 8083:8083 -p 8086:8086 \
    -v $PWD:/var/lib/influxdb \
    influxdb
```

Modify `$PWD` to the directory where you want to store data associated with the InfluxDB container.

You can also have Docker control the volume mountpoint by using a named volume.

```console
docker run -p 8083:8083 -p 8086:8086 \
    -v influxdb:/var/lib/influxdb \
    influxdb
```

### Exposed Ports

The following ports are important and will be automatically exposed when using `docker run -P`.

-	8083 Admin interface port
-	8086 HTTP API PORT

Other important ports that aren't exposed by default:

-	8091 Meta service port
-	8088 Clustering (raft) port

These two ports do not need to be exposed in a single server configuration.

Find more about API Endpoints & Ports [here](https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/latest/concepts/api/).

### Configuration

InfluxDB can be either configured from a config file or using environment variables. To mount a configuration file and use it with the server, you can use this command:

Generate the default configuration file:

```console
$ docker run --rm influxdb influxd config > influxdb.conf
```

Modify the default configuration, which will now be available under `$PWD`. Then start the InfluxDB container.

```console
$ docker run -p 8083:8083 -p 8086:8086 \
      -v $PWD:/etc/influxdb:ro \
      influxdb -config /etc/influxdb/influxdb.conf
```

Modify `$PWD` to the directory where you want to store the configuration file.

For environment variables, the format is `INFLUXDB_$SECTION_$NAME`. All dashes (`-`) are replaced with underscores (`_`). If the variable isn't in a section, then omit that part.

Examples:

```console
INFLUXDB_REPORTING_DISABLED=true
INFLUXDB_META_DIR=/path/to/metadir
INFLUXDB_DATA_QUERY_LOG_ENABLED=false
```

Find more about configuring InfluxDB [here](https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/latest/introduction/installation/)

### Graphite

InfluxDB supports the Graphite line protocol, but the service and ports are not exposed by default. To run InfluxDB with Graphite support enabled, you can either use a configuration file or set the appropriate environment variables.

### HTTP API

Creating a DB named mydb:

```console
$ curl -G http://localhost:8086/query --data-urlencode "q=CREATE DATABASE mydb"
```

Inserting into the DB:

```console
$ curl -i -XPOST 'http://localhost:8086/write?db=mydb' --data-binary 'cpu_load_short,host=server01,region=us-west value=0.64 1434055562000000000'
```

Read more about this in the [official documentation](https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/latest/guides/writing_data/)

### CLI / SHELL

Start the container:

```console
$ docker run --name=influxdb -d -p 8083:8083 -p 8086:8086 influxdb
```

Run the influx client in another container:

```console
$ docker run --rm --link=influxdb -it influxdb influx -host influxdb
```

Alternatively, jump directly into the container:

```console
$ docker exec -it influxdb influx
```

### Web Administrator Interface

Navigate to [localhost:8083](http://localhost:8083) with your browser while running the container.

See more about using the web admin [here](https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/latest/tools/web_admin/).
