curl --connect-timeout 2 --head http://localhost:8086/ping
curl: (7) Failed to connect to localhost port 8086: Connection refused Not running on localhost. curl --connect-timeout 2 --head http://pi93graf:8086/ping Influxdb is running on pi93graf
HTTP/1.1 204 No Content Content-Type: application/json Request-Id: 75c9524a-7d8c-11e9-9827-b827eb1c5b93 X-Influxdb-Build: OSS X-Influxdb-Version: 1.7.6 X-Request-Id: 75c9524a-7d8c-11e9-9827-b827eb1c5b93 Date: Thu, 23 May 2019 18:56:23 GMT current timeOmmitting the ping returns
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff X-Influxdb-Build: OSS X-Influxdb-Version: 1.7.9 Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 21:52:23 GMT Content-Length: 19
Starting may take 40 seconds! on pi zero
sudo service influxdb start or
sudo systemctl restart influxdb
not:
sudo systemctl reload influxdb
Failed to reload influxdb.service: Job type reload is not applicable for unit influxdb.service.…
% tail 1 /etc/passwd influxdb:x:111:65534::/var/lib/influxdb:/usr/sbin/nologin % tail 1 /etc/group influxdb:x:116:influxdb % ls -l /var/lib/influxdb total 12 drwxr-xr-x 6 influxdb influxdb 4096 Sep 15 12:18 data/ drwxr-xr-x 2 influxdb influxdb 4096 Oct 25 04:00 meta/ drwx------ 3 influxdb influxdb 4096 Oct 21 11:00 wal/ % sudo du 8 ./data/_internal/_series/06 , 07, 02, 05, 04, 01, 03, 000 68 ./data/_internal/_series 8 ./data/_internal/monitor/1 12 ./data/_internal/monitor 84 ./data/_internal 88 ./data 8 ./meta 344 ./wal/_internal/monitor/1 348 ./wal/_internal/monitor 352 ./wal/_internal 356 ./wal 456 . /var/lib/influxdb % sudo ls -lR .: drwxr-xr-x 3 influxdb influxdb 4096 Aug 30 19:26 data meta wal ./data: _internal ./data/_internal: _series monitor ./data/_internal/_series: 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 ./data/_internal/_series/00: 0000 01, 02, 03, 04, 05,06 ./data/_internal/_series/07: 0000 ./data/_internal/monitor: 1 ./data/_internal/monitor/1: fields.idx ./meta: meta.db ./wal: _internal ./wal/_internal: monitor ./wal/_internal/monitor: 1 ./wal/_internal/monitor/1: _00001.wal /lib/systemd/system/influxdb.serviceInteractively (shows errors):original[Unit] Description=InfluxDB is an open-source, distributed, time series databaseThis description is too wordyAfter=network.target Documentation=man:influxd(1) [Service] User=influxdb Group=influxdb LimitNOFILE=65536 EnvironmentFile=-/etc/default/influxdb ExecStart=/usr/bin/influxd -config /etc/influxdb/influxdb.conf $INFLUXD_OPTS KillMode=control-group Restart=on-failure [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target Alias=influxd.service % systemctl status influxdb * influxdb.service - InfluxDB is an open-source, distributed, time series database Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/influxdb.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (running) since Sat 2025-08-30 19:26:24 EDT; 18min ago Docs: man:influxd(1) Main PID: 1336 (influxd) Tasks: 7 (limit: 414) CPU: 5.921s CGroup: /system.slice/influxdb.service `-1336 /usr/bin/influxd -config /etc/influxdb/influxdb.conf Aug 30 19:26:24 jebh influxd[1336]: ts=2025-08-30T23:26:24.937822Z lvl=info msg="Starting precreation service" log_id=0ygKhOLG000 servic> Aug 30 19:26:24 jebh influxd[1336]: ts=2025-08-30T23:26:24.940057Z lvl=info msg="Storing statistics" log_id=0ygKhOLG000 service=monitor > Aug 30 19:26:24 jebh influxd[1336]: ts=2025-08-30T23:26:24.938347Z lvl=info msg="Starting snapshot service" log_id=0ygKhOLG000 service=s> Aug 30 19:26:24 jebh influxd[1336]: ts=2025-08-30T23:26:24.940960Z lvl=info msg="Starting continuous query service" log_id=0ygKhOLG000 s> Aug 30 19:26:24 jebh influxd[1336]: ts=2025-08-30T23:26:24.941323Z lvl=info msg="Starting HTTP service" log_id=0ygKhOLG000 service=httpd> Aug 30 19:26:24 jebh influxd[1336]: ts=2025-08-30T23:26:24.941469Z lvl=info msg="opened HTTP access log" log_id=0ygKhOLG000 service=http> Aug 30 19:26:24 jebh influxd[1336]: ts=2025-08-30T23:26:24.951967Z lvl=info msg="Listening on HTTP" log_id=0ygKhOLG000 service=httpd add> Aug 30 19:26:24 jebh influxd[1336]: ts=2025-08-30T23:26:24.952251Z lvl=info msg="Starting retention policy enforcement service" log_id=0> Aug 30 19:26:24 jebh influxd[1336]: ts=2025-08-30T23:26:24.962564Z lvl=info msg="Listening for signals" log_id=0ygKhOLG000 Aug 30 19:36:24 jebh influxd[1336]: ts=2025-08-30T23:36:24.952763Z lvl=info msg="New shard group successfully precreated" log_id=
% influxd run -config /etc/influxdb/influxdb.conf
% sudo /usr/lib/influxdb/scripts/influxd-systemd-start.sh # backgrounds influxd
influxd [[command] [arguments]]
commands :
config |
Disable the _internal database in production!
To disable the _internal database, store-enabled = false under the [monitor] section of the
InfluxDB configuration file.
Profile Descriptions:
show stats for 'httpd' |
show stats for 'indexes'
memoryBytes
-----------
267600
influxd config | more # takes nearly 3 minutes~!
Merging with configuration at: /etc/influxdb/influxdb.conf
reporting-disabled = false
bind-address = "127.0.0.1:8088"
[meta]
dir = "/var/lib/influxdb/meta"
retention-autocreate = true
logging-enabled = true
[data]
dir = "/var/lib/influxdb/data"
index-version = "inmem"
wal-dir = "/var/lib/influxdb/wal"
wal-fsync-delay = "5s"
validate-keys = false
query-log-enabled = true
cache-max-memory-size = 1073741824
#1,073,741,824 1GB too big
cache-snapshot-memory-size = 26214400
cache-snapshot-write-cold-duration = "10m0s"
compact-full-write-cold-duration = "4h0m0s"
compact-throughput = 50331648
compact-throughput-burst = 50331648
max-series-per-database = 1000000
max-values-per-tag = 100000
max-concurrent-compactions = 0
max-index-log-file-size = 1048576
trace-logging-enabled = false
tsm-use-madv-willneed = false
[coordinator]
write-timeout = "10s"
max-concurrent-queries = 0
query-timeout = "8s"
log-queries-after = "0s"
max-select-point = 0
max-select-series = 0
max-select-buckets = 0
[retention]
enabled = true
check-interval = "30m0s"
[shard-precreation]
enabled = true
check-interval = "10m0s"
advance-period = "30m0s"
[monitor]
store-enabled = true
store-database = "_internal"
store-interval = "10s"
[subscriber]
enabled = true
http-timeout = "30s"
insecure-skip-verify = false
ca-certs = ""
write-concurrency = 40
write-buffer-size = 1000
[http]
enabled = true
bind-address = ":8086"
auth-enabled = false
log-enabled = true
suppress-write-log = false
write-tracing = false
flux-enabled = false
[logging]
format = "auto"
level = "error"
suppress-logo = false
[[graphite]]
enabled = false
bind-address = ":2003"
database = "graphite"
retention-policy = ""
protocol = "tcp"
batch-size = 5000
batch-pending = 10
batch-timeout = "1s"
consistency-level = "one"
separator = "."
udp-read-buffer = 0
[[collectd]]
enabled = false
bind-address = ":25826"
database = "collectd"
retention-policy = ""
batch-size = 5000
batch-pending = 10
batch-timeout = "10s"
read-buffer = 0
typesdb = "/usr/share/collectd/types.db"
security-level = "none"
auth-file = "/etc/collectd/auth_file"
parse-multivalue-plugin = "split"
[[opentsdb]]
enabled = false
bind-address = ":4242"
database = "opentsdb"
retention-policy = ""
consistency-level = "one"
tls-enabled = false
certificate = "/etc/ssl/influxdb.pem"
batch-size = 1000
batch-pending = 5
batch-timeout = "1s"
log-point-errors = true
[[udp]]
enabled = false
bind-address = ":8089"
database = "udp"
retention-policy = ""
batch-size = 5000
batch-pending = 10
read-buffer = 0
batch-timeout = "1s"
precision = ""
[continuous_queries]
enabled = true
log-enabled = true
query-stats-enabled = false
run-interval = "1s"
[tls]
min-version = ""
max-version = ""
>show SERIES
key
---
ruuvi_measurements,dataFormat=3,mac=DFC8B0FE5CC0
ruuvi_measurements,dataFormat=3,mac=E6C3BE6F656C
ruuvi_measurements,dataFormat=3,mac=F7FA744A1E1A
ruuvi_measurements,dataFormat=3,mac=FB0ECBEF7354
ruuvi_measurements,dataFormat=4,mac=D3517872EC0F
ruuvi_measurements,dataFormat=4,mac=F2C0C643AD03
ruuvi_measurements,dataFormat=5,mac=E511D11ECBB8
ruuvi_measurements,dataFormat=5,mac=E6C3BE6F656C
Performance Profiles
Point browset to //http://influxhost:8086/debug/pprof
/debug/pprof/
Types of profiles available:
full goroutine stack dump
Count Profile
1262 allocs
44 block
0 cmdline
22 goroutine
1262 heap
16 mutex
0 profile
10 threadcreate
0 trace
echo $'\e[3;10;0t \e[8;38;70t' # set window to upper left corner 10;0 ; resize to 38r x 70c width of ls -log.
#shutdown and disable ruuviCollector and any applications expecting to connect nicely first.
vi /home/pi/RuuviCollector/RuuviCollector # did NOT;exit 0 # Prevent running when systemd starts it.
sudo systemctl daemon-reload # just to be current
sudo systemctl status ruuvicollector
sudo systemctl stop ruuvicollector # it's quite
sudo systemctl status ruuvicollector
Jun 07 16:10:00 pi93graf systemd[1]: Stopping RuuviCollector...
* ruuvicollector.service - RuuviCollector
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/ruuvicollector.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: activating (auto-restart) since Sun 2023-10-22 17:38:15 EDT; 2min 53s ago
Process: 4876 ExecStart=/home/pi/RuuviCollector/RuuviCollector (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 4876 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
sudo systemctl status influxdb
time influxd backup -portable|-db dbname [options] path
Exactly one backup path is required and it will be created.
-db name |
Influxdb must be RUNNING!
Download shard 0 failed dial tcp [::1]:8088: connect: connection refused. Waiting 2s and retrying (0)...
pi@pi93graf
cd /varnew/backup
/bin/df . -m # 2023 took 1,269 MB ! 156 files
systemctl status influxdb # Must report Active: active (running)
/bin/echo -n ready?;read a
time influxd backup -db ruuvi
-portable
-start '2022-11-21T21:00:01Z'
influxdb.$yymmdd
2022/06/09 16:12:31 backing up metastore to 220609/meta.01
2022/06/09 16:12:31 backing up db=ruuvi
2022/06/09 16:12:31 backing up db=ruuvi rp=autogen shard=1064 to 220609/ruuvi.autogen.01064.00 since 0001-01-01T00:00:00Z
2022/06/09 16:12:32 backing up db=ruuvi rp=autogen shard=1074 to 220609/ruuvi.autogen.01074.00 since 0001-01-01T00:00:00Z
…
2022/06/09 16:17:45 backing up db=ruuvi rp=autogen shard=1953 to 220609/ruuvi.autogen.01953.00 since 0001-01-01T00:00:00Z
2022/06/09 16:17:47 backing up db=ruuvi rp=autogen shard=1956 to 220609/ruuvi.autogen.01956.00 since 0001-01-01T00:00:00Z
2022/06/09 16:17:48 backup complete:
2022/06/09 16:17:48 220609/220609/meta.01
2022/06/09 16:17:48 220609/220609/ruuvi.autogen.01064.00
2022/06/09 16:17:48 220609/220609/ruuvi.autogen.01074.00
…
2022/06/09 16:17:48 220609/220609/ruuvi.autogen.01956.00
> du
1,536,936
gzip -v * # Use gzip to compress 40% ! takes longer than the backup! ??????????????/
meta.00: 72.4% -- replaced with meta.00.gz
meta.01: 72.4% -- replaced with meta.01.gz
ruuvi.autogen.01064.00: wait for it .... 41.1% -- replaced with ruuvi.autogen.01064.00.gz
ruuvi.autogen.01074.00: 41.4% -- replaced with ruuvi.autogen.01074.00.gz
…
du
902,036
rsync elsewhere, if server craps it does not help to have the backup there!
influxd
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888 888 888 888 888 888 888 X88K 888 888 888 888
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2022-06-09T20:04:25.043135Z info InfluxDB starting
{"log_id": "0azWwHJ0000", "version": "1.8.10", "branch": "1.8", "commit": "688e697c51fd"}
2022-06-09T20:04:25.046570Z info Go runtime {"log_id": "0azWwHJ0000", "version": "go1.13.8", "maxprocs": 1}
run: open server: listen: listen tcp 127.0.0.1:8088: bind: address already in use
102 files ! 40% compression i.e. need nearly same amount of free space.
total 902,028KB (compressed) 6107917 Jun 9 16:14 ruuvi.autogen.01564.00.gz
4027 Jun 9 16:12 meta.00.gz 7842453 Jun 9 16:14 ruuvi.autogen.01574.00.gz
4027 Jun 9 16:12 meta.01.gz 7334368 Jun 9 16:14 ruuvi.autogen.01584.00.gz
9112365 Jun 9 16:12 ruuvi.autogen.01064.00.gz 7491427 Jun 9 16:14 ruuvi.autogen.01594.00.gz
10100117 Jun 9 16:12 ruuvi.autogen.01074.00.gz 7737646 Jun 9 16:14 ruuvi.autogen.01604.00.gz
10018412 Jun 9 16:12 ruuvi.autogen.01084.00.gz 9012170 Jun 9 16:14 ruuvi.autogen.01614.00.gz
10093971 Jun 9 16:12 ruuvi.autogen.01094.00.gz 9919191 Jun 9 16:14 ruuvi.autogen.01624.00.gz
…
11135192 Jun 9 16:14 ruuvi.autogen.01514.00.gz 9909770 Jun 9 16:17 ruuvi.autogen.01944.00.gz
8393563 Jun 9 16:14 ruuvi.autogen.01524.00.gz 9847670 Jun 9 16:17 ruuvi.autogen.01947.00.gz
7848930 Jun 9 16:14 ruuvi.autogen.01534.00.gz 10693497 Jun 9 16:17 ruuvi.autogen.01950.00.gz
7834470 Jun 9 16:14 ruuvi.autogen.01544.00.gz 10443978 Jun 9 16:17 ruuvi.autogen.01953.00.gz
5055082 Jun 9 16:14 ruuvi.autogen.01554.00.gz 2344092 Jun 9 16:17 ruuvi.autogen.01956.00.gz
influxd restore [-portable] [options] path
portable consumes files in an improved Enterprise-compatible format that includes a file manifest.
11/26/22 restored ruuvi started with /var/log free 1,520MB ended with 959MB i.e. 600MB consumed even thoughruuvi was alread included in db.
sudo influxd restore -metadir /varnew/backup/220609 . Using metastore snapshot: meta.01No other messages, no change in
systemctl status influxdb
-metadir directory |
influxdb influxdb
> sudo find /var/lib/influxdb -user root # any found need to be chown chgrp influxdb
> cd /var/lib/influxd /var/lib/influxdb > sudo chown -vR influxdb * |grep -v retained changed ownership of '0_chgrp' from root to influxdb changed ownership of 'data/_internal/monitor/274/fields.idx' from root to influxdb changed ownership of 'data/_internal/monitor/274' from root to influxdb changed ownership of 'data/_internal/monitor/272/000000015-000000002.tsm' from root to influxdb changed ownership of 'meta/meta.db' from root to influxdb changed ownership of 'wal/_internal/monitor/274/_00001.wal' from root to influxdb changed ownership of 'wal/_internal/monitor/274' from root to influxdblater: changed ownership of 'data/ruuvi/autogen/10/000000001-000000001.tsm' from root to influxdb changed ownership of 'data/ruuvi/autogen/5/000000001-000000001.tsm' from root to influxdb changed ownership of 'data/_internal/monitor/276/000000010-000000001.tsm' from root to influxdb changed ownership of 'data/_internal/monitor/276/fields.idx' from root to influxdb changed ownership of 'wal/_internal/monitor/276/_00036.wal' from root to influxdb changed ownership of 'wal/_internal/monitor/276/_00035.wal' from root to influxdb |
InfluxDB stores all integers as signed int64 data types. The minimum and maximum are -9023372036854775808 and 9023372036854775807.
See Go builtins
Benchmark vs Elasticsearch pdf
from raspberry pi rev B as of 18-12-14 InfluxDB shell version: 1.0.2
from pi zero 3/27/19 InfluxDB shell version: 1.7.4 , `
influx_inspect,
chronograf