Welcome to our guide on how to Install InfluxDB on Fedora 30/Fedora 29. InfluxDB is an open source time series database written in Go to provide scalable datastore for system metrics, events and real-time analytics. InfluxDB is designed to be fast, highly available and to handle high write and query loads. It is one of the major components of TICK stack which composes of Telegraf, InfluxDB, Chronograf and Kapacitor.
Install InfluxDB on Fedora 30/Fedora 29
To install InfluxDB on Fedora, you can manually use the RPM package or you can create the InfluxDB repo and install it automatically from repos.
We covered how to install Telegraf on Fedora 30/Fedora 29 in our previous guide. See the link below.
Install Telegraf on Fedora 30/Fedora 29
Install InfluxDB using RPM package
To install InfluxDB using RPM package, download the binary file from the downloads page.
wget https://dl.influxdata.com/influxdb/releases/influxdb-1.7.6.x86_64.rpmCheck the SHA256 hash of the downloaded binary if matches the hash provided on the downloads page, ffcf0def4a0bffb74728c7aaa0ade39231ea4e91b3be67de5528d7982b295ea8.
sha256sum influxdb-1.7.6.x86_64.rpm
ffcf0def4a0bffb74728c7aaa0ade39231ea4e91b3be67de5528d7982b295ea8 influxdb-1.7.6.x86_64.rpm
If all is well, proceed to install InfluxDB;
dnf localinstall influxdb-1.7.6.x86_64.rpmInstall InfluxDB from InfluxDB Repository
To install InfluxDB from InfluxDB repos, you need to create the InfluxDB repository on Fedora 30 as shown below;
cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/influxdb.repo << EOF
[influxdb]
name = InfluxDB Repository
baseurl = https://repos.influxdata.com/rhel/7Server/x86_64/stable/
enabled = 1
gpgcheck = 1
gpgkey = https://repos.influxdata.com/influxdb.key
EOFNext, install InfluxDB by running the command below;
dnf update
dnf install influxdbStart and Enable InfluxDB service
Once the installation is done, you can start and enable InfluxDB service by running the commands;
systemctl start influxdb
systemctl enable influxdbOpen InfluxDB ports on Firewall
InfluxDB uses TCP ports 8086 and 8088 for client-server communication and for back up and restore operations respectively. Hence ensure that these ports are opened on firewalld.
firewall-cmd --add-port={8086,8088}/tcp --permanent
firewall-cmd --reloadTesting InfluxDB
Now that the installation of InfluxDB is done, you can, in basics, test it by creating a database as shown below;
curl -XPOST "http://localhost:8086/query" --data-urlencode "q=CREATE DATABASE testdb"
{"results":[{"statement_id":0}]}Well that seems okay. You can also verify this by logging into InfluxDB and showing the databases as shown below. InfluxDB supports InfluxQL, an SQL-like query language that enables you to execute SQL like queries on InfluxDB
influx
Connected to http://localhost:8086 version 1.7.6
InfluxDB shell version: 1.7.6
Enter an InfluxQL query
> show databases;
name: databases
name
----
telegraf
_internal
testdbYou can also create databases while you are logged in to InfluxDB just as you would on the other database systems;
create database testdb1 > show databases;
name: databases
name
----
telegraf
_internal
testdb
testdb1
>You can also create database user.
> use testdb
Using database testdb
> create user testuser with password 'StrongPass'
>To show users in a database;
> show users
user admin
---- -----
testuser falseTo create and grant a user all privileges;
> create user amos with password 'NicePASS' with all privileges> show users
user admin
---- -----
testuser false
amos trueGreat. That is just about it on how to install InfluxDB on Fedora 30. Enjoy.
