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Can't write dataframe to influxdb
I'm trying to write the following dataframe to influxdb using the DataFrameClient in the python driver.
change price symbol volume
Time
2019-05-09 10:00:00 1 22 ABCD 450
2019-05-09 10:00:00 2 4 …

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How to populate HTML data to Grafana Ajax Plugin
I have a html content that gets generated dynamically and i want to display the same in the Grafana. Manually populating the Ajax Plugin is not feasible. I understand that the Ajax plugin can be used for the same. How can i send the html content to…

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Should you use InfluxDBClient's close() method?
As mentioned in the API documentation of the InfluxDB Python, the InfluxDBClient has a method close(). Are you supposed to always use it or is it closed automatically?

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How to get variables into a json object?
A really simple noob question. How do I place variables in this json_body variable? The problem is with all the quotation marks. I can't use the .format string method for this as the json_body variable isn't holding a simple string.
from influxdb…

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How do you sample influxdb data at a specified time interval?
I have 'chunks' of data getting stored every 30 seconds. The timestamps on each row of a chunk is the same. The measurements and one of the tags are different.
Is there a way to query the data so that I get the data from the last 24 hours but with…

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InfluxDBClientError: 400: {"error":"error parsing query: found -06, expected ; at line 1, char 35"}
I am using influxdbClient to query the Influxdb through python.
the simple query works well as:
from influxdb import InfluxDBClient
client = InfluxDBClient(host='192.168.1.104',…

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Query working and non working hours average/Percentile utilisation of servers from influxdb over a month
I am using influxdb to store my production servers CPU/MEMORY utilisation.
Recently my customer asked whether it is possible to query out working hours and non working hours average utilisation of all the servers over a period of time or monthly.…

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How to send UDP requests via asyncio in python 3
I would like to send UDP messages to my InfluxDB server using asyncio. This is my synchronous code:
import socket
import requests
from logger import get_logger
log = get_logger(__name__)
class InfluxDB(object):
def __init__(self, username,…

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lost data after restart the influxdb?
I wrote a script to fetch some data from influxdb.It works well,but some day this script report an error:
requests.exceptions.ChunkedEncodingError: ('Connection broken: IncompleteRead(0 bytes read)'), IncompleteRead(0 bytes read)
and then,I…

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queires and advanced operations in influxdb
Recently started working on influxDB, can't find how to add new measurements or make a table of data from separate measurements, like in SQL we have to join table or so.
The influxdb docs aren't that clear. I'm currently using the terminal for…

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What's the maximum number of points I should write to influxdb in a single request?
In influxdb 1.5, the /write path can accept multiple points in a POST request.
What is a reasonable maximum payload size for this? 100 point? 1,000? 10,000? More?

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Time selections on InfluxDB
I have some stock price data in InfluxDB with columns Ticker and Price. For example:
Time Ticker Price
------ ------ ------
12:02 IBM 100.12
12:02 MSFT 50.15
12:03 IBM 100.15
12:04 MSFT 51.00
12:05 AMZN 200.00
I would like to…

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How to use Python to iterate through influxDB results
How can I iterate through the result set I get returned from influxDB? I get this result by using
client = InfluxDBClient(host=influx_host, port=influx_port,database='db')
q = client.query("select * from cpu limit 1")
ResultSet({'(u'cpu', None)':…

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accessing timestamps using python in influx db
I'm connecting to an influx db using python. Using built in dataframe tools I am successfully accessing data and am able to do everything I'd like, accept I can't access the timestamp values. For example:
import sys
from influxdb import…

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Influxdb write_points throws AttributeError
I am working on a Python program. I am trying to write a json (see below) into influxDB by using influxdb-python using the below code -
DBclient = client(host, port, user, password, dbname)
influx_data = json.dumps(write_to_influx_json)
print…

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