Questions tagged [influx-line-protocol]
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Issue writing from Influx Line Protocol to QuestDB
My problem is that I cannot wrote data to Quest DB with Influx Line Protocol (ILP) is I have an already created table with a schema. If I have an empty table (i.e. with no schema) then I can do the schema and the schema is auto-created.
My questions…

Newskooler
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Data persistence in InfluxDB, using influxdb3
While persisting data in influx-db, there is a column name Time which is managed by influx itself. By default the format in which time stored is 2023-08-29T07:43:46.872Z
I am trying to store the timestamp in Unix format, which is not happening.
I am…

kshitiz raj
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unable to write in influxdb2 using pandas dataframe
I am trying to write data from a panda's dataframe to influxdb v2.2 using python. However, I am not seeing any data in query.
import pandas as pd
from influxdb_client import InfluxDBClient
from influxdb_client.client.write_api import…

myquest5 sh
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InfluxDB different results with different time ranges
Due to a wrong retention setting I’ve lost a whole month of data (November 2022).
As I have the data in another system, I’ve used the “Load Data” → “Line Protocol” → “Write Data” functionality in order to write the lost data points back into the…

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Calculating average of elapsed time
I want to calculate the average time duration of my events. After an event starts and ends, it sends a request to my InfluxDB in the Line Protocol Syntax:
mes1 id=1,event="start" 1655885442
mes1 id=1,event="end" 1655885519
mes1 id=2,event="start"…

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InfluxDB Line Protocol Performance 1.8 vs. 2.0
I noticed that there is a considerable (5x) performance penalty when upgrading my app from InfluxDB 1.8 to 2.0. I'm using ILP and the only change I made on the ingress side was switching from /write to /api/v2/write, adding the auth token and org…

Michael
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How do I insert multiple points in Influx with the lineprotocol and API
According to the documentation the influx line protocol accepts \n to separate lines.
I have a request in Postman on Windows http://127.0.0.1:8086/api/v2/write?precision=ms&bucket=Test&org=Test with required headers
that works just fine with this…

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Export flux (Influxdb 2.0) database into csv in CLI
I found that we can send a CSV file into Influxdb 2.0, but is the reverse operation possible? How can I export flux database into CSV file in CLI?

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Efficiently loading large time series data into InfluxDB
I am trying to load 100 billion (thousands of columns, millions of rows) multi-dimensional time series datapoints into InfluxDB from a CSV file.
I am currently doing it through line protocol as follows (my codebase is in Python):
f = open(args.file,…

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Pushing Data To Influx DB From The Command Line Invalid Number Error
I have some iot data in csv format that I would like to push into InfluxDb.
I am using influx write from the command line, but I am getting a parsing error back.
The command I'm running is
influx write -b iotData \
-f data.csv \
--header…

CHEESE
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unable to write data in influxdb
I am trying to write data in influxdb as below based on influx write
/home/test-code>influx write --bucket bucketsha "
> m,host=host1 field1=1.2,field2=5i 1640995200000000000
> m,host=host2 field1=2.4,field2=3i 1640995200000000000
> "
Please provide…

myquest5 sh
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influx write command is throwing error: "unsupported protocol scheme"
I have exported my data from an InfluxDB bucket with the following command:
> influxd inspect export-lp --bucket-id d5f80730ede82d67 --engine-path ~\.influxdbv2\engine --output-path ~\Desktop\my-data.lp.gz --start 2022-11-01T00:00:00Z --end…

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Setting the RAM limit for the influxdb write process
The python influx client use too much ram during the writing process. Since we do not have access to the influxdb config we need to improve this in python directly. I tried to optimize it using different settings for batch_size, flush_interval,…

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Error in plugin: Invalid JSON provided, unable to parse
I'm using docker to bring up Telegraf,InfluxDB,Grafana.
I'm using amqp_consumer input plugin in Telegraf conf file.
I'm getting the error
E! [inputs.amqp_consumer] Error in plugin: Invalid JSON provided, unable to parse.
I have enabled debug level…

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Send HTTP POST request to InfluxDB manually with browser
Hello,
I'm currently using grafana to visualize data from InfluxDB, and would like to use a hyperlink in form of a HTTP request from a dashboard to insert data into the database.
Is something like this possible?

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