--- title: InfluxDB Reviews meta_title: 'InfluxDB Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 101 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how InfluxDB works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.4 review_count: 101 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-06-15' parent_category: name: Database Software url: https://www.g2.com/categories/database-software --- # InfluxDB Reviews **Vendor:** InfluxData **Category:** [Time Series Databases](https://www.g2.com/categories/time-series-databases) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 101 ## About InfluxDB InfluxDB is a purpose-built data platform designed to handle all time series data, from users, sensors, applications and infrastructure — seamlessly collecting, storing, visualizing, and turning insight into action. With a library of more than 300 open source Telegraf plugins, importing and monitoring data from any system is easy. InfluxDB empowers developers to build transformative IoT, monitoring and analytics services and applications. InfluxDB’s flexible architecture fits any implementation — whether in the cloud, at the edge or on premises — and its versatility, accessibility and supporting tools (client libraries, APIs, etc.) make it easy for developers at any level to quickly build applications and services with time series data. Optimized for developer efficiency and productivity, the InfluxDB platform gives builders time to focus on the features and functionalities that give their internal projects value and their applications a competitive edge. To get started, InfluxData offers free training through InfluxDB University at https://university.influxdata.com ## InfluxDB Reviews ### 1. Great Experience! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 23, 2022 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** The best part of influxdb is the detailed graphs and metrics. **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** As far as dislikes go I would say it is a bit complex to implement when compared to net data for example. **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** The problem of reporting on the performance of machines in the network. ### 2. Excellent High Performance Time Series Database **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** JD M. | Sr. HPC Storage Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2021 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** Powerful database for time series data that is very feature rich and easy to use. Very useful for a lot of different uses from monitoring to reporting and many other tasks. Database has a lot of built in data features taht are really handy when dealing with time series data that a lot of other databasess don't have. The database is also very efficient at storing the information on disk in a very compact manner. **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** Having to deal with cardinality and memory consumption can be a challenge. This has created some limitations for us where we have to be careful about what all we put into InfluxDB to make sure that we can have a stable instance. **Recommendations to others considering InfluxDB:** If you're looking for a database to store and visualize time series data I think this is one of if not the best solutions available at this time; and it is open source which is really nice. The team has done a great job of not hamstringing useful features behind paid services which is really great to see. **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using InfluxDB to store telemtry information from thousands of machines and using the data for monitoring and reporting. ### 3. I continuously faced roadblocks with setting up tasks **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 23, 2022 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** The UI was clean and easy to navigate throughout **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** The custom programming language had a significant learning curve **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Real time data monitoring **Official Response from Bria Jones:** > Hi there, I'm sorry to hear about the trouble you had with setting up tasks. We appreciate that feedback. I'm happy to set you up with more specific resources to help with tasks or any other roadblocks you have faced. Please feel free to reach out to me directly and I can connect you! (bjones@influxdata.com) We also have excellent (free) resources over at InfluxDBU! ### 4. Influx DB **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joseph H. | Unemployed, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 07, 2021 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** Fast way to store data coming in from multiple sensors and then organize that data in a way that can be visualised **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** Can be hard to understand at first and more complicated than other ways to store data **Recommendations to others considering InfluxDB:** I would recommend InfluxDB to someone who already knows quite a bit about databases and data manipulation. Otherwise it can be quite difficult to pick it up. **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data storage is the problem solved and you can use InfluxDB along side many other programs ### 5. Must-have time series database **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** NaveenKumar N. | Performance Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2021 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** Getting started with InfluxDB is straight-forward and easy. One of the powerful feature of InfluxDB dashboards and its query language Flux. Influx is fast and efficient. Deploying, managing, backups and upgrading the influx needs some expertise. The query language helps to customize the visualization and to calculate the data effectively. The help documentation is detailed enough to get started. The monitioring and the alert functions in InfluxDB helps to take appropirate actions when something is deviating. Integrations with third party tools and solutions enables to create seamless pipeline across multiple zones. The Influx APIs helps in automating tasks and also in the CI/CD pipelines. **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** Few limitations in the open source version and the security aspects. InfluxDB should develop its own plugins for the performance testing ecosystem. Right now only few integrations are available out of the box. **Recommendations to others considering InfluxDB:** If you want to visualize your data in a fast and efficient way, then InfluxDB is the answer. InfluxDB visulization dashboard is all you need to monitor all the aspects in your organization. If you are enterprise, then managing the users, organizations is easy in InfluxDB. **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Critical data to visualize the performance, analytics, and more. By having the holistic view in the Influx user interface helps to monitor the whole arena. It helps me to monitor the performance of our applications during the performance testing. By leveraing the Infux DB dashboard, we can easily monitor the response time, throughput, pass/fail count, CPU, memory, disk, network, and other utilization across our instances. It also alerts the respective parties to take actions. ### 6. Managing time series in an easy way **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jose Manuel O. | Sofware engineer, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 13, 2021 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** It is a database specialized in data processing to build time series. It can integrate with other tools such as Grafana to monitor and visualize the data through different filters. It is also continually releasing updates and offering good documentation and support from the community. **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** I think it could be improved data interpretation, either through an interface or through the results provided through the console. Another aspect of improving at the performance level is the memory use as we accumulate data since sometimes it is necessary to restart the server to free memory. **Recommendations to others considering InfluxDB:** It is a good solution for time series recording and can be integrated with other monitoring tools such as Prometheus and Grafana through different plugins. **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** One of the primary use cases is the possibility of monitoring our applications to obtain metrics related to the memory and CPU consumption of the application servers that are running in containers and orchestrators such as Docker and Kubernetes. In addition, we can generate alerts for different types of events and monitor in real-time the capacity of applications as users register and connect. ### 7. Easy to use and Full of features! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gaurav J. | Junior Data Scientist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 07, 2021 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** InfluxDB is a strong database built specifically for Time Series Data. It has made working with such data seamless and easy. **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** As such there are no downsides of InfluxDB. **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am working on Electricity Time Series Data. The data is huge and live streaming. All is seamlessly managed by InfluxDB and its cloud service, via GCP. The price is very low and dashboard monitoring is best ### 8. Projet collecting datas to show evolutions and preferences **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bouvard A. | Full stack developper, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 08, 2021 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** The dashboard is helpful to get hands-on influx. I also really like flux! **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** I wish there was more advice on how to design data schemas. I have struggled a lot as my project is an edge case. **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Compared to classical databases, Influx helped me dealing with a lot of points. Moreover, its downsampling helps me keeping my database size ok. ### 9. Good Time Series Database for database requirement **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 13, 2021 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** It is open source, It is fast, It supports high-availability; HTTP native API to build on; Continuous Queries; Built-in tools for down-sampling and summarizing; Sharding data **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** documentation is really not helpful; deleting of data may or may not work even if the query matches; opensource really needs to be open source; It is still having lot of dependencies **Recommendations to others considering InfluxDB:** You should use InfluxDB when you want continuous streaming data **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Time series database requirements, applications like Internet of Things; Telemetry data collection & dashboarding; It has HTTP native API to build on; It can do lot of Continuous Queries; It has Built-in tools for down-sampling and summarizing; It supports Sharding data It can Process or monitor data as it comes ### 10. InfluxDB is my go-to open-source TSDB **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mihály B. | CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 14, 2021 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** - It's open-source - InfluxDB Cloud is easy to use, has a very intuitive user interface with prebuilt dashboards and scripts for common monitoring projects - Telegraf can collect metrics from a variety of sources **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** I don't have any specific features I don't like. **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am aggregating IoT sensor data and displaying them in one central dashboard. The data sources are from different manufacturers. Telegraf helps collect the data and sends it InfluxDB Cloud where we can create dasboards based on various needs. ### 11. Leveraging InfluxDB for IoT projects has been a breeze. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** kalpesh m. | program manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2021 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** The high availability of the stored data and also time series feature has helped develop our IoT projects with the greatest efficiency and further projects have been planned on the same framework. **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** The initial learning curve was a challenge, but as the team was trained, the workflow got easier. **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our data availability request was a challenge with the existing infrastructure, so we had to leverage a solution for robust data transfers and high availability timeframe with minimal lag. ### 12. Best solution for time series and IoT application **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Saurabh M. | Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 13, 2021 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** Leverages time series platform to handle massive volumes of data produced From application and sensors which enhances better functionality **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** Need to focus on cost optimization and improveuser dashboard interface **Recommendations to others considering InfluxDB:** Best solution for large volumes of time series data and platform **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Real time data series which are producing form sensors and application ### 13. Best time series data base with nice feature to generate graphs **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** saurav s. | Software Consultant Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 13, 2021 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** Best part was to integrate very easily with Grafana. Also graph generation is so easy **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** All the features are nice so I don't find any thing to dislike **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was solving bandwidth consumption of devices that data will be added to db and then have to build model using time series forecasting ### 14. The tech is great, cloud offering is immature **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Industrial Automation | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2021 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** Easy to learn Flux language to query the DB. Not too hard to programmatically generate query code **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** The repeating technical issues, around 1-2 issues a month that prevents us as an org, from providing our customers with data. The rate of failures has decreased in the last 6 months but still way too high compared to other DB as a service offerings **Recommendations to others considering InfluxDB:** Consider the OSS solution, it has better community. The cloud service is immature **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Fast queries that the main parameter is time. This is where Timebased DB shines. ### 15. Awesome product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 14, 2021 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** InfluxDB provides lots of customization. **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** Sometimes its hard to rearrange dashboards and takes couple of attempts (and is ok). I am not sure if its my browser or some kind of lag. **Recommendations to others considering InfluxDB:** - Amazing product, Easy to install - Great documentation and support - Easy to learn and lots of cool features - easy to integrate with popular languages. **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have integrated with our applictions. The one stop web page to monitor the progress of our upgrades is very impressive. ### 16. InfluxDB Honest Review **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2021 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** Data aggregation and alerting as well as being able to visually represent any time based data. **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** Honestly in my opinion, the Flux language has quite a learning curve. **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Time series data and alerting on threshold changes. ### 17. Very easy to use and user friendly solution for data historization and visualization **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 14, 2021 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** How it's easy to implement and collect data **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** nothing, except some function for data query which are missing **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** we use it to collect data from our batches and monitor how much time they taking to run, to historize and compare ### 18. Robust and scalable, yet easy to bootstrap TSDB **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2021 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** Easy to spin up, good documentation, very good performance and low resource usage. **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** Advanced functions are not user friendly. Such as the variable retention rate implementation. **Recommendations to others considering InfluxDB:** Start with a small on premise setup along a cloud based solution then as your usage grows, decide between the two to achieve lowest cost implementation. **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Convenient storage of time series for easy retrieval and analytics. Also the write point protocol is very convenient to allow a variety devices to write data. ### 19. InfluxData review on gsviec **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Thien T. | Teacher, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 18, 2020 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** InfluxDB Open Source and it very fast and easy to config **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** Nothing here, maybe need native support on kubenertes **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use InfluxData to monitoring our server ### 20. Best time-series database at any scale for metrics and event analytics. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prithwi Raj B. | VP of Product Engineering, Mobile Apps, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 29, 2019 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** InfluxDB is a simple but very powerful time-series database that is lightweight and can be used at any scale. This database can be easily mapped to Grafana a data visualization tool to display different types of analytics. I love how powerful Influx DB is compared to its competitors. The performance we were observing when running on low-cost cloud compute instances was second to none. For me, it was an overall smooth conversion and I am very satisfied with the overall experience. I did not encounter any major roadblocks during the implementation process. **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** Nothing major to dislike about InfluxDB. It would be better if it has its own GUI to manage the database instead of using Linux based commands. Also, I wish it has some default graphical data visualization tool for analyzing and tuning the time-series data preparation. It has a simple UI to do some very basic operation but it would be awesome to have nice management GUI and I believe it is required to make this powerful DB more popular. Another thing I've noticed a few times in 4 years of extensive usage is that the CPU usage went high to 100% for an unlimited time. Restarting the node is the only option I found. **Recommendations to others considering InfluxDB:** If you are doing time-series without InfluxDB, you are doing it wrong. I'm saying this because InfluxDB is built for solving problems related to time-series. Most of the other available options in the market are not purely built as time-series databases primarily. This database can be easily mapped to Grafana a data visualization tool to display different types of analytics. Trust me, it's very easy to get started with InfluxDB. And the ROI is very good over time. You just need to focus and update your thoughts that are aligned to time-series architecture, a little bit different from traditional RDBMS or NoSQL. **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use InfluxDB to monitor various types of matrics of VMs, containers, services, web servers, networks and so on. This time-series DB helps me to track different types of events and event-based alerts. Using the Kapacitor of TICK stack it is very easy to monitor data real-time and generate alarms accordingly. We also track different types of user events on a timely basis. InfluxDB directly supports TICK script that helps to identify anomalies in the network of the datacenter. ### 21. My experience with InfluxDB **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Antonio P. | IT infrastructure manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 14, 2020 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** The simplicity of installation, configuration and development **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** At the moment I don't have dislike about this product **Recommendations to others considering InfluxDB:** If you are a classic DBA or if your skill is only on rdbms, forget everything, in this way will be more simple to approach a InfluxDB **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Well, I have used InfluxDB for two project: - for the first project the problem was to have a time-series connected with a mosquitto; of course this problem was solved using InfluxDB a some little coding using python; - the second project was to have a collection of all of the data related to my solar panels starting from 2012 till now. Also in this case I have created a little program with python in order to collect the historical data, then I have created a new program always in python to sync the actual and next data ### 22. I used InfluxDB with Grafana to realize data visualization. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Keanu(Tianlu) Z. | Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 12, 2020 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** The continuous query is brilliant. It helps me make queries through several databases. **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** I think InfluxDB should have functions like joining tables. Since InfluxDB does not support query over multiple measurements or multiple tags, I created a continuous query to collect data from A measurement and put it into B measurement. **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** I solved the problem to record the number of requests received by my service. I used InfluxDB to realize calculating the ratio of good requests and all requests. Since graphite is deprecating, I use InfluxDB to record the time series data. When there is a marker received by the service and it is a duplicate one, a record with tag "cached" will be inserted into the InfluxDB measurement(equivalent to the table in MySQL). Otherwise, if the marker is a new one, a record with tag "new" will be created. ### 23. InfluxDB Collects a Variety of Data for Presentation and Forecasting **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jason L. | IT Support Technician, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2019 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** InfluxDB is a breeze to set up, and administer. We had it up within minutes, and was pouring data into it not long afterwards. Additional instances were just as easy to create, and use cases presented themselves naturally through implementation, expanding past what we initially intended to collect. **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** InfluxDB has some command differences from other DB languages, so there is a bit of a learning curve, albeit not an unexpected one. After tweaking queries within the associated Grafana installation, easy-to-digest displays were a breeze to create and use to demonstrate both internally to teammates and externally to stakeholders the health of our environment and needs to maintain said health. **Recommendations to others considering InfluxDB:** InfluxDB works best when using a tool such as Grafana to display the data collected, and various agents such as Telegraf to collect said data from all necessary sources. All can be installed and configured with a very low time cost, and the benefits of having such a system in place are immediately evident. **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are collecting data that would normally only exist in a real-time fashion, things such as temperature and humidity of datacenters, to traffic flows between particular high-priority network hosts, to performance metrics of high-priority servers. We can properly snapshot our environment to determine current health, and properly forecast how to maintain keeping said health in good standing ### 24. Influx DB for Real time data Analysis **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** DURGESH V. | Graduate Trainee, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 14, 2020 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** As all we all know influx is one of the best time series database we have now.Adding it's continuous query , retention policies features makes it more stronger than other TS DBs. **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** There is no GUI for influx like we have for workbench in mysql. **Recommendations to others considering InfluxDB:** Go for it , one stop solution for all your problem related to data storage, APM and timeseries data management. **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** I suggested TICK stack APM in my organisation for application,host and container monitoring in real-time. Influx Db i have used in my academic projects which were based on IoT. ### 25. Managed service for Time Series data **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jai J. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 10, 2020 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** Large supported programming language makes it fit in multiple scenario. SQL like query language. It can store string data also, as compared to other TS DBs which simply can't. In-memory capabilities **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** It can't hold production load (metrics) from 1000+ servers. It has some real problems with data ingestion and ends up stalled and unusable. **Recommendations to others considering InfluxDB:** It's a very good managed service for Time Series data. Go for it. **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Problems: Only one I've got so far, data with same timestamp and tag gets overwritten. Benefits: Can directly use the dataframe in multiple services like pandas, spark, etc. ### 26. Best Open Source Time Series Monitoring solution in the market. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aman M. | Devops, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 06, 2020 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** I like Influxdb for my time series based monitoring. I have used some other tools in the past like Prometheus, but I liked Influxdb as it requires regular DB commands to manage and store data. **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** One thing that I dislike about influx DB is that it has very limited features in the open-source version. **Recommendations to others considering InfluxDB:** Not any recommendations as such **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Monitoring and IOT Based projects. ### 27. Take your time series app to production quickly **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arbab K. | DevOps Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 16, 2020 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** Most easy database for modeling your timeseries data and query is just a matter of few milliseconds, best for development of wed apps due to http based queries, not a good choice for big data but best for running data. **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** Horizontal scaling is not open source. Should be made open source. Should have a connector for spark/hadoop **Recommendations to others considering InfluxDB:** Understand the modeling your data according to working of influxDB to get most out of it. **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were solving our IoT use case where we surving our most realtime dashboards with influxDB. ### 28. Best time-series database **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sumit S. | Senior Java Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 18, 2020 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** I stored the stream data via http in influxdb and when I am getting data from DB it's speed is very faster than other DB. **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** No dislikes because it's very helpful for storing time-series data. **Recommendations to others considering InfluxDB:** Perfect for storing time-series data. **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used the influx db with telegraf in my project. So telegraf sending data to the influx db for storing. Benefits of influx db for me Storing time-series data Providing time-series data over an HTTPS API Providing existing data sets in a very fast and efficient manner ### 29. InfluxDB is fast and easy to get up and going with..or industrialise when the need arises **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 15, 2020 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** What i like best is its ease of use. Its fast to get it up and running, configure and administer. Once you find that it works for you, it can be easily reconfigured to work at scale, tuned and optimised. Getting data into Grafana is just straightforward as can be! **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** Not a lot to dislike. In the early versions backup was cumbersome but this has been sorted for some time. **Recommendations to others considering InfluxDB:** Just try it... its so quick to get going with you'll be done by lunch! **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** As mentioned its fast and easy to just throw data into and then analyse later with tools like Grafana. Its fascinating seeing what a bunch of numbers look like when graphed over time! ### 30. Best Time Series Monitoring DB **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amaan k. | Devops lead, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2020 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** I have Influxdb for quite a while, I particularly like the Monitoring feature that Influxdb offers along with other components like telegraph, Kapacitor and chronograph. I used to use grafana for visualisation of data **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** I think the only thing I disliked was the Limitations of Opensource InfluxDb. You don't get some good HA features in Influx Opensource. **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Monitoring especially. ### 31. Best time series Monitoring tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sachin A. | Administrator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 28, 2020 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** I like the open source Influxdb, we use it for our in-house server monitoring **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** Limited features in Opensource Influxdb database and also no automatic sharding of database **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Monitoring especially and also we use it to track our time series based IOT system prototype. ### 32. Wonderful Embedded DB **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 16, 2020 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** I had used this as Timeseries Database with Node-Red and Grafana. I loved the way with which I was able to integrate and with such high performance. I was able to integrate all pieces within a day **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** The Documentation and Community support, though it is good now, I had used it and stacked it in my IoT Analytical suite sometime back **Recommendations to others considering InfluxDB:** Great Embedded Time series Database with ease of integration and performance **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** The speed at which I was able to query the Timeseries data and easy integration with Node-Red and Grafana ### 33. A clean and easy to setup package, easy to customize **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sachin S. | Project Assistant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2020 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** The best part was the customizations that could be done for retention policies, and the ease of creating new databases **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** I did not find any major flaws though i can suggest changes for certain aspects in TICK stack **Recommendations to others considering InfluxDB:** Go for it **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** I solved a problem for major airliner wrt to data reduction by using kapacitor and influxdb ### 34. Highly performant Time Series Storage Database **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Zuhair S. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 15, 2020 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** Great at quickly ingesting and querying a bunch of data. When it works, it works extremely well. **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** Setting up clustering had its issues. Querying aggregations over large time periods is slower than something compared to BigQuery. **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Anomaly Analysis. InfluxDB has been very useful in zeroing in on causes for anomalies in our software. ### 35. Influxdb a timeseries database. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2020 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** InfluxDB is a NoSQL timeseries database , It stores the data with respect to time . As it stores the data with time that's why it is very fast in performance because here time work as an index to retrieve the information. **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** Till now everything is fine, I like influxDB very much. **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using TICK(Telegraf, influxDB, Chronograf, Kapacitor) Stack . I used influxDB as a noSQL database. Performance and scalability is good in influxDB. I used influxdb for log monitoring of metrics. ### 36. I worker with time-series, so I very interested in Influxdb **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nam N. | Full Stack Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2020 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** real-time analytics, providing REST API, web UI, query language **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** The licenses, if you want to scale your database **Recommendations to others considering InfluxDB:** time-series and cost **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Influxdb helps our team to analytics our metrics of business ### 37. Platform for real time analytics **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 08, 2020 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** I used this software and with the help of influx db i am able used time series database. It is good as go with real time analytics, storage etc. **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** It is an open source, no need to pay any charges and no cons i have yet seen in influx db. **Recommendations to others considering InfluxDB:** It is free as an open source so it will help you alot to learn. It is very fast and it also use time series database which is trending in market. **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps in business as per operation monitoring, data analytics, sensor data and many more. ### 38. InfluxDb is a Timeseries database and used to store the logs. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 29, 2019 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** The data in influxdb is stored with respect to time and also there is no need to create schema of the table influxdb creates by its own. **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** I like it very much, every this good till now. **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** InfluxDB is easy to use, scalable and highly available that's why I preferred to use influxDb as a database. Also in influxdb data is store with the timestamp that's why it is very fast to retrieve any data from influxDb. I used influxDb with TICK Stack(Telegraf, InfluxDb, chronograf, Kapacitor). ### 39. Great Tech to capture events in real time with awesome caching mech. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 15, 2020 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** 1. astonished with the right and read among the distributed environment. **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** Deletion / Updation of a record is quite a tedious process. **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Logging, Event Capturing, State management of micro-services. ### 40. Platform for Application Monitoring **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 01, 2020 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** This is open source time series database that is developed by influxdb.I used this for real time data analytics. **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** So far no cons i find in influxdb workbench. **Recommendations to others considering InfluxDB:** For real time data analytics try to use influxdb workbench it is really helpful. **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solving real time businsss problem with the help of influx like metric data analytics and many more. ### 41. Really good time series database **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 15, 2020 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** Load the database in background while using your system **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** Less options available to capture the data in database **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Monitoring the server logs ### 42. Solid Time Series DB! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jonathan Y. | CEO & Co-Founder, Internet, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 20, 2018 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** This DB sets up time series data in a way that I've always dreamed of making myself - but does it better! You start by filling the database with as much data as possible, that you never intend directly query. Then you setup some reduction policies so that that data gets downsampled into something that is queried at an application/reporting level, with a significantly downsampled dataset. Then, depending on your needs, you can set expiration for your data so that big massive data insert you originally setup doesn't stick around. **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** Getting started is a little bit rough. There is a lot of good articles, but it simply requires you to dive into their deep end. **Recommendations to others considering InfluxDB:** If you need a Time series Database that just works, pick InfluxDB. **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use InfluxDB to store systems analytics, user data, and server resource monitoring. We also use it for business analytics for how our users consume our platform. All on 1 machine, for now. We are looking to create a cluster soon. ### 43. Great time series database with an easy to usy to use syntax **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dylan E. | Security Officer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 16, 2018 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** The syntax is intuitive and easy to learn, as it is very similar to standard SQL queries. Learning the different aggregations and advanced features takes some time, but afterwards they are very easy to use. Downsampling data points to a lower resolution and deletion of older data can be automated very easily and reliably. The data compression is amazing (among the best compared to other time series databases), with a single data point with timestamp generally being less than 10 bytes in total for long-term storage and they are continuously updating the storage engine for even better compression. Integration with other applications in the TICK stack is easy and seamless and allows for even more advanced manipulation of the data. Documentation is **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** Debugging the application to determine optimal configuration settings for performance/load is tricky and the documentation regarding this is lacking. **Recommendations to others considering InfluxDB:** Consider your database design carefully to minimize cardinality, since it can affect the performance of the system in a major way if this is designed improperly. **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use InfluxDB as our main time series database, holding data written from 100s of sources. This data can then be manipulated and requested back for business intelligence/machine optimization. ### 44. Does not scale **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2018 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** Flexibility -- you can add database columns on-the-fly at run-time. UDP or TCP -- go with UDP for efficiency or TCP for guaranteed delivery. Easy time series data -- that's what it's made for. **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** Poor performance -- queries to check data would often timeout and fail. Limited SQL -- very limited SQL syntax was frustrating -- queries from Internet could not be copied and pasted. Unreliable -- could not handle all of are data, so we throttled and threw away most of the data, defeating the purpose. Too flexible -- too easy to accidentally create duplicate columns. It's like going back to BASIC programming days where variables don't have to be declared. **Recommendations to others considering InfluxDB:** Be sure it is fit for your purpose and can handle enough data before you commit to the tool **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used it for logging information from mobile apps. Arguably it is not a logging product, but a series of log messages is a time series as far as I am concerned. The logs did help us troubleshoot problems -- when we could get the SQL syntax to work and not time out. ### 45. A good choice for timeseries data **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2018 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** The most thing I liked was the ability to store very big timeseries data in very efficient way. In my case, we stored relatively big data with single node which uses casual compute and storage resources **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** Although influxdb core is open source and free, using it in production and at scale will require a very expensive license. For example, clusters are only available in InfluxEnterprise which was costy for us in early development phase. **Recommendations to others considering InfluxDB:** Influxdb is designed to store timeseries data, not anything else. If you data nature is a timeseris that can be displayed in line graphs so go for influxdb, otherwise it may not be the best fit. Influxdb don't have *good* support for strings, and no support for booleans nor nested documents. So double check your data is a timeseries, and you will require lots of time-based queries. **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use it to store our infrastructure health and usage metrics. The most benefit in this use-case was the good support for tool-chains. ### 46. Influx DB for operational monitoring **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yves B. | Senior Vice President, Telecommunications, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2018 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** Easy to setup and customize, no performance issue so far (monitoring millions of events daily). Has proven to scale without having to resort to technical wizardry. **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** Nothing. INFLUX DB does what it is supposed to do. **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Operational monitoring. Facilitates an agile introduction of additional monitoring, independently of the actual source, format and protocols of the information source. ### 47. awsome time serise database **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Praveen Reddy T. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 01, 2018 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** linfluxdb has a greate capability to write huge data and very good speeds while reading data. **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** cluster features are not available in the community edition. **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** to present the time series data in dashboards. ### 48. My most favourite time series database ever! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lee H. | Founder & CTO, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 12, 2017 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** Easy deployment, single binary unbeatable. Compared with Graphite which was state of the art when I started using InfluxDB **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** Pseudo-SQL syntax sometimes tricky because of perceived faux familiarity. Also in it's usual habitat (docker container) the REPL has no autocomplete or tab completion which can make editing queries tricky. Fortunately this doesn't have to be done much, as most people with use Grafana in front of it most of the time. **Recommendations to others considering InfluxDB:** Look beyond the fact that the vendor wants you to use their whole stack. Their TICK stack has strenghts and weaknesses. InfluxDB coupled with Grafana works wonderfully, and Telegraf is a good "metrics collector" too. **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Metrics data in general (alerting via Grafana) and also as principle data store of time series data which is shared with customers via our web application. In that regard, for some of our data InfluxDB is a primary data store for business critical operations. ### 49. Amazing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nicholas H. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** How easy it is to configure and get running **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** The lack of joins across measurements can be annoying at times **Recommendations to others considering InfluxDB:** Understand what your schema should be like and set up your tags and values properly **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Collecting system measurements from various network devices ### 50. I have been fairly disappointed in InfluxDB **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matt W. | CTO, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2017 **What do you like best about InfluxDB?** How easy it is to pump data into InfluxDB, query it, and downsample it. The query language is great, intuituve, and well thought out. It is fairly easy to install, configure, and get working out of the box. **What do you dislike about InfluxDB?** Performance. I have very little data (100k points) on an Amazon EC2 t2.medium instance (below recommendations, but I have very little data) and when I query for data it crushes the CPU. And is very slow to return results. **What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tracking site wide metrics via timestamped events. 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