InfluxDB Installation

Ubuntu 14.04 Installation

Add Repo

~$ curl -sL https://repos.influxdata.com/influxdb.key | sudo apt-key add -
~$ source /etc/lsb-release
~$ echo "deb https://repos.influxdata.com/${DISTRIB_ID,,} ${DISTRIB_CODENAME} stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/influxdb.list

Install InfluxDB

~$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install influxdb -y
~$ sudo service influxdb start

Database config

Login and create a DB

~$ influx
Connected to http://localhost:8086 version 0.13.0
InfluxDB shell version: 0.13.0
> CREATE DATABASE influxdb
> SHOW DATABASES
name: databases
---------------
name
_internal
influxdb

Testing DB

~$ influx
> USE influxdb
> INSERT cpu,host=serverA value=0.64
> SELECT * from cpu
name: cpu
---------
time			host	value
1467318896821675352	serverA	0.64

Setting up an external write into the database. Open a new shell on the same host.

~$ curl -i -XPOST 'http://localhost:8086/write?db=influxdb' --data-binary 'cpu_load_short,host=server01,region=us-west value=0.64 1434055562000000000'
HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
Request-Id: d333c2a3-3f03-11e6-800b-000000000000
X-Influxdb-Version: 0.13.0
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 20:47:14 GMT

Verify the data is there

~$ influx
> USE influxdb
Using database influxdb
> SELECT * from cpu_load_short
name: cpu_load_short
--------------------
time			host		region	value
1434055562000000000	server01	us-west	0.64

Adding an Administrator Account

~$ influx
> CREATE USER root WITH PASSWORD 'TuTewlyQsjhMregggQbF' WITH ALL PRIVILEGES

Creating User account with access to Database

~$ influx
> CREATE USER influx WITH PASSWORD 'influxdb'
> GRANT ALL ON influxdb TO influx

Verify Users and Rights

~$ influx
> SHOW USERS
user	admin
root	true
influx	false
> SHOW GRANTS FOR influx
database	privilege
influxdb	ALL PRIVILEGES

Add Authentication for HTTP requests

Change auth-enabled = false to auth-enabled = true

~$ sudo vi /etc/influxdb/influxdb.conf
[http]
  enabled = true
  bind-address = ":8086"
  auth-enabled = true #
  log-enabled = true
  write-tracing = false
  pprof-enabled = false
  https-enabled = false
  https-certificate = "/etc/ssl/influxdb.pem"
  max-row-limit = 10000