InfluxDB Quick Start

2 influx shell

$ influx
Connected to http://localhost:8086 version 1.2.x
InfluxDB shell 1.2.x
> show databases;
name: databases
name
----
_internal
test
telegraf

> use telegraf;
Using database telegraf
> show measurements;
name: measurements
name
----
cpu
disk
diskio
kernel
mem
processes
swap
system

> 

3 Creating a database

$ curl -i -XPOST http://localhost:8086/query --data-urlencode "q=CREATE DATABASE mydb"
$ influx
Connected to http://localhost:8086 version 1.2.x
InfluxDB shell 1.2.x
> create database mydb;
> show databases;
name: databases
name
----
_internal
test
telegraf
mydb

4 Insert data

> USE mydb
> INSERT cpu,host=serverA,region=us_west value=0.64

<measurement>[,<tag-key>=<tag-value>...] <field-key>=<field-value>[,<field2-key>=<field2-value>...] [unix-nano-timestamp]

5 Writing data

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