Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics.
InfluxDB is an open source time series database optimized for high-write-volume. It’s useful for recording metrics, sensor data, events, and performing analytics. It exposes an HTTP API for client interaction and if often used in combination with Grafana to visualize the data.
This add-on comes with Chronograf & Kapacitor pre-installed as well. Which gives you a nice InfluxDB admin interface for managing your users, databases, data retention settings, and lets you peek inside the database using the Data Explorer.
Installation
The installation of this add-on is pretty straightforward and not different in comparison to installing any other add-on.
Search for the “InfluxDB” add-on in the add-on store and install it.
Start the “InfluxDB” add-on.
Check the logs of the “InfluxDB” to see if everything went well.
Click the “OPEN WEB UI” button!
Support
You can always try to get support from the community here at the Home Assistant community forums, join the conversation!
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No, there is no way to get this on Hassbian, add-ons are a Hassio feature.
You could of course install Influxdata software yourself, but that is out of scope for this topic
Wow, once I figured out how to use a tenth of it’s capabilities, this thing is amazing! My biggest problem with Hass.io is how slow the history tab is, and this completely fixes that.
Where does the data for InfluxDB come from and where is it stored? If it doesn’t use home-assistant_v2.db, can “logbook:” and “history:” be removed from configuration.yaml or is there some dependency?
It is stored inside the add-ons persistent storage space (usually referred to as /data in the Hassio world). This space is exported using snapshots as well.
I guess they can be removed. Not 100% sure… give it a shot and let me know
I commented out “logbook:” & “history:” and deleted the home-assistant db file, and that did not impact the InfluxDb functionality. I’ll probably add those back just to keep last few days of data as fallback but good to know InfluxDB is not dependent on it.
That’s my intention as well, and so far it works beautifully. I already learned to do this for now (2018-05-28_17-11-51.png - Google Drive), but it also looks like you can set up notifications there based on any criteria, so could easily replace lots of automation I have.
I’ve done all documented setup and double checked it. Is there a trick to getting text values to appear in Chronograf?
I’m absolutely successful at seeing numeric values, but entities that will hold text (e.g. home/not_home), I’m struggling to get them to appear.
Example InfluxQL: SELECT "value" FROM "homeassistant"."autogen"."state" WHERE time > now() AND "entity_id"='[entity that returns home/not_home]'
It tells me that it’s syntactically correct, but returns no values.
I’ve tried a few variants of this, including changing the time range or removing it entirely. I’m used to traditional SQL, so I may have some blindspot when I’m looking at a familiar, but different approach to data.
I’m rather confident the issue is with me, but after googling InfluxDB and reading through examples, playing with variants of possibilities… I’m out of good answers for what I’m doing wrong here.
I definitely hope to do as trusty mentioned - I want to replace my logbook and history. I’m just missing something important here and I feel dense.
At this moment our Home Assistant Community Add-ons Discord chat server and GitHub are our only official support channels. All others rely on community effort.
addict that is. Lucky for you, I turn that C8H10N4O2 (caffeine molecule) into code (and add-ons)!
Nice job!
Too bad I don’t have more time to play with it, dying to try the SonWeb Add-on.