InfluxDB OSS v1 documentation

InfluxDB is a time series database designed to handle high write and query loads. InfluxDB OSS v1 is purpose-built to handle any use case involving large amounts of timestamped data and is an integral component of the TICK stack.

Common use cases include:

• Infrastructure and DevOps monitoring
• Application metrics and performance monitoring
• IoT sensor data collection
• Real-time analytics
• Events handling

Key features

InfluxDB v supports the following features for working with time series data.

• Custom high performance datastore written specifically for time series data. The TSM engine allows for high ingest speed and data compression
• Written entirely in Go. It compiles into a single binary with no external dependencies.
• Simple, high performing write and query HTTP APIs.
• Plugins support for other data ingestion protocols such as Graphite, collectd, and OpenTSDB.
• Expressive SQL-like query language tailored to easily query aggregated data.
• Tags allow series to be indexed for fast and efficient queries.
• Retention policies efficiently auto-expire stale data.
• Continuous queries automatically compute aggregate data to make frequent queries more efficient.

InfluxDB OSS v1 runs on a single node. If you require high availability to eliminate a single point of failure, consider InfluxDB 3 Enterprise, InfluxDB’s next generation that supports multi-node clustering, allows infinite series cardinality without impact on overall database performance, and brings native SQL support and improved InfluxQL performance.