awesome-influxdb

A curated list of awesome projects, libraries, tools, etc. related to InfluxDB. This list focuses on libraries, tools, etc. supporting InfluxDB version 1.0 and up.

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Reference material

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• Official documentation
• InfluxDB in IoT world. Part 1: Introduction | Part 2: Hosting and scaling on AWS | Part 3: Plotting graphs using Grafana

Client libraries

Official

• C# - A .NET library for efficiently sending points to InfluxDB
• Go - Go client for InfluxDB, contained as package within main InfluxDB repo
• Java - Java client for InfluxDB
• PHP - PHP client for InfluxDB
• Python - Python client for InfluxDB
• Rails - Ruby on Rails bindings to automatically write metrics into InfluxDB
• Ruby - Ruby client for InfluxDB

Unofficial

• capacitor - A Clojure client for InfluxDB
• cl-influxdb - Common Lisp interface to the Time Series Database InfluxDB
• erflux - InfluxDB client for Erlang
• fluxter - An InfluxDB writer for Elixir
• influent - InfluxDB Javascript driver
• influent.rs - InfluxDB Rust driver
• InfluxDB-Client-LabVIEW - LabVIEW client for InfluxDB
• influxdb-cpp-rest - A C++ InfluxDB client with a batching async interface
• influxdb-haskell - Haskell client library for InfluxDB
• InfluxDB.NET - .NET client for InfluxDB
• InfluxDB PHP SDK - UDP/IP or HTTP adapters for read and write data
• influxdbr - R library for InfluxDB
• instream - InfluxDB driver for Elixir
• node-influx - InfluxDB Node.js Client
• node-influx-udp - Write to InfluxDB using its UDP interface
• scala-influxdb-client - Asynchronous InfluxDB client for Scala

Collecting data into InfluxDB

Projects

Dedicated

Tools whose primary or sole purpose is to feed data into InfluxDB.

• accelerometer2influx - Android application that takes the x-y-z axis metrics from your phone accelerometer and sends the data to InfluxDB.
• agento - Client/server collecting near realtime metrics from Linux hosts
• aggregateD - A dogstatsD inspired metrics and event aggregation daemon for InfluxDB
• aprs2influxdb - Interfaces ham radio APRS-IS servers and saves packet data into an influxdb database
• Charmander - Charmander is a lab environment for measuring and analyzing resource-scheduling algorithms
• gopherwx - a service that pulls live weather data from a Davis Instruments Vantage Pro2 station and stores it in InfluxDB
• grade - Track Go benchmark performance over time by storing results in InfluxDB
• Influx-Capacitor - Influx-Capacitor collects metrics from windows machines using Performance Counters. Data is sent to influxDB to be viewable by grafana
• Influxdb-Powershell - Powershell script to send Windows Performance counters to an InfluxDB Server
• influxdb-logger - SmartApp to log SmartThings device attributes to an InfluxDB database
• influxdb-sqlserver - Collect Microsoft SQL Server metrics for reporting to InfluxDB and visualize them with Grafana
• k6 - A modern load testing tool, using Go and JavaScript
• marathon-event-metrics - a tool for reporting Marathon events to InfluxDB
• mesos-influxdb-collector - Lightweight mesos stats collector for InfluxDB
• mqforward - MQTT to influxdb forwarder
• node-opcua-logger - Collect industrial data from OPC UA Servers
• ntp_checker - compares internal NTP sources and warns if the offset between servers exceeds a definable (fraction of) seconds
• proc_to_influxdb - Console app to observe Windows process starts and stops via InfluxDB
• pysysinfo_influxdb - Periodically send system information into influxdb (uses python3 + psutil, so it also works under Windows)
• sysinfo_influxdb - Collect and send system (linux) info to InfluxDB
• snmpcollector - A full featured Generic SNMP data collector with Web Administration Interface for InfluxDB
• Telegraf - (Official) plugin-driven server agent for reporting metrics into InfluxDB
• tesla-streamer - Streams data from Tesla Model S to InfluxDB (rake task)
• traffic_stats - Acquires and stores statistics about CDNs controlled by Apache Traffic Control
• vsphere-influxdb-go - Collect VMware vSphere, vCenter and ESXi performance metrics and send them to InfluxDB

Non-dedicated

Tools that generate data that feed into multiple backends, InfluxDB included.

• cAdvisor - Analyzes resource usage and performance characteristics of running containers
• Centreon - A network, system, applicative supervision and monitoring tool
• cernan - A telemetry and logging aggregation server
• cloudwatch-sender - Send metrics to InfluxDB/Graphite from Amazon Cloudwatch
• crankshaftd - Simple Go agent to ingest streaming data from Turbine via SSE and push it into StatsD as a gauge or to InfluxDB
• Domoticz - Open source Home Automation System
• gatling - Async Scala-Akka-Netty based Stress Tool
• Glances - Glances an Eye on your system
• Graphios - A program to send nagios perf data to graphite (carbon) / statsd / librato / influxDB
• heapster - Monitor container resource usage of a Kubernetes cluster
• heka - General purpose data collection and processing tool
• internet_data_usage - Python based application to pull data plan usage for different carriers such as Telus and Koodo
• ioBroker - Homeautomation / IoT Platform uses Influxdb to store history data
• jmxtrans - Effectively the missing connector between speaking to a JVM via JMX on one end and whatever logging / monitoring / graphing package that you can dream up on the other end.
• Apache JMeter - Popular load testing tool, you can get real-time results sent to a backend through the InfluxDBBackendListenerClient which allows you to send metrics (active threads, response time ...) to an InfluxDB Backend using UDP or HTTP protocols
• logary - High performance, multi-target logging, metric and health-check library for mono and .Net
• metrics.sh - Collect and forward metrics using portable shell scripts
• OpenHAB - A universal integration platform for all things around home automation
• Riemann - A network event stream processing system, in Clojure
• statsd-jvm-profiler - Simple JVM Profiler Using StatsD
• statsite - C implementation of statsd

Libraries

Libraries to collect data and feed into InfluxDB.

• crow-metrics - small metrics collector for node servers
• django-influxdb-metrics - A reusable Django app that sends metrics about your project to InfluxDB
• go-runtime-metrics - Collect golang runtime Metrics, outputting to InfluxDB or through Telegraf
• lua-resty-influx - OpenResty client for InfluxDB
• metrics - (PHP) Simple library that abstracts different metrics collectors. "I find this necessary to have a consistent and simple metrics (functional) API that doesn't cause vendor lock-in"
• pyVsphereInflux - A library and supporting script for pulling data from vSphere and inserting it into InfluxDB
• telemetry - metric reporting for Go applications

Hooks

Hooks for other logging libraries to output to InfluxDB.

• go-metrics-influxdb - A reporter for the go-metrics library which will post the metrics to InfluxDB
• logrus_influxdb - InfluxDB Hook for Logrus

Plugins

Plugins to allow other standalone tools to send their data into InfluxDB.

• embulk-output-influxdb - InfluxDB output plugin for Embulk
• exometer_influxdb - Exometer reporter for InfluxDB
• fluent-plugin-influxdb - A buffered output plugin for fluentd and InfluxDB
• influx-nagios-plugin - Nagios plugin for querying monitoring stats from InfluxDB
• jenkinsci/influxdb-plugin - Jenkins plugin to send build metrics into InfluxDB
• kafka-influxdb - A Kafka consumer for InfluxDB written in Python
• logstash-output-influxdb - Community-maintained Logstash plugin to output metrics to InfluxDB
• metrics-influxdb - A reporter for dropwizard metrics which announces measurements to an InfluxDB server
• mod-influxdb - Shinken module for exporting data to InfluxDB
• sensu-plugins-influxdb - Sensu InfluxDB Plugins
• sidekiq-influxdb - A Sidekiq middleware to send job execution metrics to InfluxDB
• snap-plugin-publisher-influxdb - Publishes snap metrics to InfluxDB
• statsd-influxdb-backend - A naive InfluxDB backend for StatsD

Import tools

Tools to import a fixed set of data into InfluxDB.

• nmon2influxdb - Import nmon file into InfluxDB

Consuming data from InfluxDB

Dashboards and visualization

• Chronograf - Official InfluxDB data visualization tool
• facette - Time series data visualization and graphing software
• FluxDash - Terminal based InfluxDB dashboard
• grafana - Gorgeous metric viz, dashboards & editors for Graphite, InfluxDB & OpenTSDB
• InfluxGraph - Graphite InfluxDB storage finder for Graphite-API
• ostent - collects and displays system metrics and optionally relays to Graphite and/or InfluxDB
• InfluxDB Studio - InfluxDB Studio is a UI management tool, its inspiration comes from other similar SQL database management tools (use InfluxData.Net run on MS Windows)

Other tools

• hubot-influxdb-alerts - Create and manage alerts in your chatroom using hubot and influxdb
• influx-alert - A tool to query InfluxDB and send alerts based on a YAML config
• influxdb_google_sheets - Google Sheets script for fetching and formatting InfluxDB data
• Morgoth - Metric anomaly detection

Provisioning InfluxDB

Tools, libraries, etc. to help you get InfluxDB running without installing it by hand.

• chef-influxdb - Chef cookbook for InfluxDB
• golja-influxdb - Puppet module for InfluxDB
• influxdb-formula - Installs and configures the InfluxDB timeseries database
• influxdb-release - Experimental BOSH release for InfluxDB
• puppet-telegraf - Puppet module for Telegraf
• rossmcdonald/influxdb - Ansible role for installing, configuring, and maintaining InfluxDB
• tutum-docker-influxdb - Docker image to run an out-of-the-box InfluxDB server

Queries

• dbal-influxdb - Doctrine DBAL for InfluxDB
• Influxdb::Arel - Influxdb::Arel is a SQL AST manager for InfluxDB dialect. It simplifies the generation of complex SQL queries
• influxer - InfluxDB ActiveRecord-style

Hosting of InfluxDB / SaaS

• InfluxCloud - From the creators of InfluxDB
• Aiven - Provides a choice of host (AWS, Google, DigitalOcean, etc.), geographic location, and server specs
• Scalingo - Provides a choice of server specs
• HostedMetrics - Geared towards custom application monitoring by hosting the combination of InfluxDB, Grafana, and StatsD

Miscellaneous

Projects that don't seem to fit in any other category.

• influx-protector - proxy to prevent dangerous queries getting to influxdb
• influxdb-schema-updater - A small DevOps tool to manage the schema of an InfluxDB instance with a set of configuration files
• influx-prompt - An interactive command-line InfluxDB cli with auto completion

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