Influxdb
App in the BluixApps catalog
What it is
InfluxDB is the leading time-series database — high write throughput, optimized for sensor data, IoT, monitoring metrics, real-time analytics. Built-in retention policies, downsampling, Flux query language. Open-core (MIT for OSS, commercial cloud + enterprise).
Used as the storage backend for monitoring stacks at every scale, from Raspberry Pi homes to Fortune 500 ops centers.
What it's for
- IoT / sensor data — high-cardinality time-series at scale
- Application metrics — request rate, error rate, latency
- Infrastructure monitoring — CPU, RAM, disk over time
- Real-time dashboards — sub-second freshness in Grafana
- Energy / climate tracking — Home Assistant + InfluxDB for historical sensor data
Who it's for
- SRE / DevOps teams storing application + infra metrics
- IoT platform engineers with sensor data ingestion
- Home Assistant power users wanting long-term sensor history
- Energy monitoring households tracking consumption over time
- Industrial monitoring orgs with sensor fleets
Why teams pick InfluxDB over alternatives
- MIT (OSS) — fully open for community use
- Industry standard — most documentation, integration, tooling
- Flux query language — powerful + composable
- Retention policies built-in — auto-downsample + expire data
- Grafana native — first-class data source
- High write throughput — optimized for sensor / metric ingestion
Integrations
- Telegraf — official metrics collection agent (200+ plugins)
- Grafana — primary visualization (Flux + InfluxQL data sources)
- Home Assistant — direct integration for sensor history
- Client libraries — Python, JS, Go, Java, C#, Ruby, PHP, Swift
- Prometheus — InfluxDB can act as Prometheus remote write target
- Apache Kafka — stream ingestion via Telegraf
- MQTT — Telegraf MQTT plugin for IoT data
Notable users & community
- 30k+ GitHub stars
- Used by IBM, Cisco, eBay, Vonage, Coupang for production
- Backed by InfluxData with sustainable commercial cloud + enterprise
- InfluxDays annual conference
- Standard TSDB in time-series ecosystem
Tips & operations
- InfluxDB 2.x vs 3.x — 2.x is stable, 3.x in transition; we ship 2.7 (current stable)
- Retention discipline — default bucket has 30-day retention; tune per use case
- Cardinality kills — high-cardinality tags (user IDs, trace IDs) cause issues
- Backup snapshot —
influx backupfor periodic disaster recovery - Token security — admin token gives full access; create scoped tokens per consumer
- Pair with Telegraf — collect everything via Telegraf agent
What we ship in BluixApps
- Docker image:
influxdb:2.7(current stable) - Auto-setup mode: org + bucket + admin user created on first run
- Random admin password + token surfaced in install report
- Persistent volumes:
/opt/influxdb/data+/opt/influxdb/config - Port 8086 exposed
- Default 30-day retention on
defaultbucket - HTTPS via Let's Encrypt reverse proxy
- Backup hook covers data volume
Get this app — pick a BluixApps plan
Same catalog. Scaling tenant isolation, white-label and support tier.
| Tier | Tenants | Catalog | Support | White-label | Monthly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stacks | 1 | 19 curated stacks | Standard | — | $19/mo | DetailDeploy |
| Starter | 10 | Full catalog | Standard | +$15–25/mo | $49/mo | DetailDeploy |
| Pro | 25 | Full catalog | Priority bugfix | +$15–25/mo | $149/mo | DetailDeploy |
| Growth | 100 | Full catalog | Priority bugfix | +$15–25/mo | $349/mo | DetailDeploy |
| Scale | 500 | Full catalog | 7-day window | +$15–25/mo | $799/mo | DetailDeploy |
| Enterprise | Unlimited | Full catalog | Priority 7-day | Bundled | $1,499/mo | DetailDeploy |