InfluxDB Core is a database built to collect, process, transform, and store event and time series data. It is ideal for use cases that require real-time ingest and fast query response times to build user interfaces, monitoring, and automation solutions.

Common use cases include:

• Monitoring sensor data
• Server monitoring
• Application performance monitoring
• Network monitoring
• Financial market and trading analytics
• Behavioral analytics

InfluxDB is optimized for scenarios where near real-time data monitoring is essential and queries need to return quickly to support user experiences such as dashboards and interactive user interfaces.

InfluxDB 3 Core’s feature highlights include:

• Diskless architecture with object storage support (or local disk with no dependencies)
• Fast query response times (under 10ms for last-value queries, or 30ms for distinct metadata)
• Embedded Python VM for plugins and triggers
• Parquet file persistence
• Compatibility with InfluxDB 1.x and 2.x write APIs

Project Status

InfluxDB 3 Core is in public alpha and available for testing and feedback, but is not meant for production use. During the alpha period we may make breaking changes that will require you to blow away your data and start over. You should have copies of your data in other places during the alpha period. Both the product and this documentation are works in progress. New builds get created on every merge into main, so things will be moving quickly for the next month or so. We welcome and encourage your input about your experience with the alpha. Join the InfluxDB3 Discord or the public channels below.

See the InfluxDB 3 alpha release announcement here or dig into the InfluxDB 3 getting started guide here.

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Installation

We have nightly and versioned Docker images, Debian packages, RPM packages, and tarballs of InfluxDB available on the InfluxData downloads page. We also provide the InfluxDB command line interface (CLI) client as a separate binary available at the same location.

• For v1 installation, use the main 1.x branch or install InfluxDB OSS directly.
• For v2 installation, use the main 2.x branch.
• For InfluxDB 3 Core alpha see the InfluxDB 3 Core getting started guide.

If you are interested in building from source, see the building from source guide for contributors.

To begin using InfluxDB, visit our Getting Started with InfluxDB documentation.

License

The open source software we build is licensed under the permissive MIT or Apache 2 licenses at the user's choosing. We’ve long held the view that our open source code should be truly open and our commercial code should be separate and closed.

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