About the InfluxDB collector

Audience:
Community
Enterprise

Use this collector to discover InfluxDB buckets and columns across your enterprise. Dive deep into metadata about buckets, tasks, and measurement columns, empowering users to easily locate and monitor time series data, coupled with insights on its processing.

An example of metadata from an InfluxDB Task inside the data.world platform, including the expression, last run status, and task status.

Important

The InfluxDB collector can be run in the Cloud or on-premise using Docker or Jar files.

Note

The latest version of the Collector is 2.267. To view the release notes for this version and all previous versions, please go here.

What is cataloged

The collector catalogs the following information.

Table 1.

Object	Information cataloged
Explicit Bucket	Name, Description, Bucket Type
Implicit Bucket	Name, Description, Bucket Type
Label	Name, Description, Column Type, Field Type
Measurement Schema	Name, Description
Organization	Name, Description
Task	Name, Description, Schedule cron expression, Schedule period in seconds, Schedule period offset, Task flux expression, Last run completed at, Last run status, Last run error, Task status, Task type
Telegraf Configuration	Name, Description, Declared output bucket, Telegraf configuration

Relationships between objects

By default, the harvested metadata includes catalog pages for the following resource types. Each catalog page has a relationship to the other related resource types. If the metadata presentation for this data source has been customized with the help of the data.world Solutions team, you may see other resource pages and relationships.

Table 2.

Resource page	Relationship
Explicit Bucket	Measurement Schema contained in Explicit Bucket
Measurement Column	Measurement Schema containing Measurement Column
Measurement Schema	Explicit Bucket with Measurement Schema Measurement Columns contained in Measurement Schema

InfluxDB version supported

The collector supports InfluxDB Cloud 2.0.

Authentication supported

The collector authenticates to InfluxDB using using token-based authentication.