storing grafana's metrics data in influxdb

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I use grafana(3.0.3) fetching cloudwatch data, and I want to store fetched data inside InfluxDB(0.13). Any idea how I can do so, thank you in advance.

One idea is to use telegraf, which reads cloudwatch then stores the data in influxdb — perigee
– perigee, Commented Jun 17, 2016 at 20:30

Michael Desa · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-20 15:30:59Z

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Telegraf has a CloudWatch plugin that you can use to store CloudWatch data in InfluxDB.

Alternatively if you're fetching the data yourself you could write the data to InfluxDB yourself. To do so, you'd issue an POST request to the /write endpoint of your InfluxDB instance with some your data in line protocol

Some examples of data in line protocol:

cpu,host=server01,region=uswest value=1 1434055562000000000
cpu,host=server02,region=uswest value=3 1434055562000010000
temperature,machine=unit42,type=assembly internal=32,external=100 1434055562000000035
temperature,machine=unit143,type=assembly internal=22,external=130 1434055562005000035

answered Jun 20, 2016 at 15:30

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perigee Over a year ago

thx a lot, just don't know why grafana drops the support for influxdb as a database backend for storing dashboard.

Michael Desa Over a year ago

There were some issues in the past where people were losing their dashboards because of how it was store in InfluxDB.To prevent that from happening they started using SQL.

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